Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane in 1939’s Detective Comics #27, Batman was one of many various plays on the tropes of pulp fiction heroes, which were arguably a dime a dozen in media during ...

No matter which version of the character — Golden, Silver, or Modern Age appearances — one pulls from, there's enough material to transcribe this B-list Bat-villain to the big time for Batman ...

For years, a purported vintage photograph of a bearded man in a mask has circulated on the internet claiming to be the inspiration for the famed comic-book vigilante Batman.

Among the seminal comics included are the following stories from Batman’s publishing history: Golden Age Folio Society/DC Comics “The Bat-Man,” from Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) by Bill ...

For the most part, Batman: Caped Crusader has at least the veneer of the Golden Age of Comics, from the time period to other elements. The show is seemingly set in some version of the 1940s, even ...

So what were Batman's actual origins? Created by Bob Kane and his partner Bill Finger, the first comic strip featuring the masked vigilante appeared in 1939 in Detective Comics.