'I took a sanitized version of a tough character and took him closer to his 1940s roots,' Frank Miller told Newsweek.
and countless other dark tales, had a hand in reinventing the identity of Batman after Adam West had turned him into a joke. All it took was a four issue-comic book miniseries.In 1939, National Comics published#27, featuring the first appearance of Batman. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the caped crusader was very unlike the icon we know now, 80 years later. He carried a gun and didn't hesitate using it to shoot down criminals.
"Around that time, I had fallen out of comics and Batman was going on adventures like flying through space, which I didn't care for," Fletcher said."Then this book andcome out and it drags me back into comics." Reading Batman not only challenging but defeating the god-like Superman and Miller's reinventing of Gotham as gritty and decrepit opened his eyes to a world of creative opportunity.
These different iterations of Batman could not exist without the artists and writers innovating at their easels. Neal Adams, Jim Lee and Greg Capullo are just some of the creative forces that gave Batman life for generations.
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