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Saturday, November 5th, 2011 Tags: Batman, comics Category: Out of the Vault No Comments 
Finishing off our five-week Halloween Monsters Who Are Heroes in epic fashion, we have The Batman, a hero who pretended to be a monster to frighten his enemies, teaming up with four honest-to-goodness monsters: a golem, a demon, a werecreature, and a ghost. It all …
Read More >Saturday, October 29th, 2011 Tags: Batman, Deadman, Demon, Halloween, Man-Bat, Metamorpho Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
Okay, so we’ve established that, according to Bob Kane’s official version, he was inspired by The Mark of Zorro and The Bat Whispers, while I personally think as much or more inspiration was drawn from 1926′s The Bat (of which The Bat Whispers was a talkie remake).
But according to Dial B For Blog, those two sources could not have been inspirational because of distinct differences between the final product and the source material.
I disagree. Yes, there are differences, but it seems apparent to me that the Bat-Man was a fusion of many different influences. So let’s take a look at his very first appearance in 1939, in issue #27 of Detective Comics, the title that gave DC its name. The story is “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate,” written by Bill Finger and “inspired” by the Shadow novel, Partners of Peril.
Read More >Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 Tags: Batman, comics, Origins Category: Out of the Vault No Comments
That’s right, Super Movie Monday is back to herald the beginning of a site-wide “Origins” retrospective. For the next who-knows-how-many weeks (a number which could well be ”one,” depending on how much material I develop), we’ll be examining some of the seminal and mostly unknown works which helped form the modern superhero genre.
Our first movie is
Read More >Monday, July 11th, 2011 Tags: Batman, Movies, Origins, Silent Film Category: Super Movie Monday No Comments