Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

With the next Batman movie, The Dark Knight set for release on July 18th 2008, I thought now was a perfect time to do an in depth look at one of the most iconic of superheroes, the Batman.
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Batman is a DC Comics character originally co-created by Bob Kane (artist) and Bill Finger…

Spurred on by the success of Superman in Action Comics, National Publications (who would become DC Comics) started looking to create additional superheroes. Artist Bob Kane came up with the idea for a character called the Bat-Man.

According to Kane’s collaborator Bill Finger, the initial version of the Batman character was radically different to what…

Over the course of 70 years the history of Batman and Bruce Wayne has been revised on several occasions. However there is a defining event in Batman’s origin which has not changed. As a result of the constant tinkering with Batman’s background it is hard to present a detailed biography. What follows are some…

Over the course of the last 70 years Batman has fought an almost uncountable number of villains. However, a handful of those adversaries have made a significant impact in the life of the Dark Knight.

• The Joker - First appeared in Batman #1 in 1940. The Joker is the pre-eminent Batman villain. A homicidal maniac dressed…

Honestly coming up with any sort of definitive list of Batman stories is next to impossible. While there are a lot of bad stories, there are also a lot of good ones. I’m not going to claim that this is anything more than a sample of what’s available. But I do think that these…