Long before TheBatman, how did Batman become such a major character in pop culture?
✖ While arguably all comic book movies find their way to the larger pop culture conversation, the hype leading up to this week's release of The Batman has felt particularly different.
Simultaneously, there are so many elements of the Batman gimmick — his cabal of colorful villains, his various love interests, and his nature of working in the shadows — that can be seen as alluring and cool, while still being grounded in societal norms. Outside of the death of his parents, the way Bruce becomes Batman can also be seen as attainable to the reader, in a way that the squeaky-clean personas and otherworldly origins of Superman and Spider-Man aren't exactly.
You can throw a hypothetical rock and hit half a dozen different Batman titles being published at one time, with that number increasing when you factor in his appearances in team books, or the spinoffs surrounding his sidekicks and villains. Each of these books can vary wildly in concept and tone — at any point in time, there can simultaneously be comics where Batman has G-rated adventures with the Scooby-Doo gang, comics where he fights G.I.
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