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To prove he was sane? Are you sure? The character then disappeared almost entirely for much of the ’60s, and it wasn’t until the aforementioned Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams run, in a now-famous story in 1973 entitled “The Joker’s Five Way Revenge” (Batman #251), that he was returned to the level of a serious and murderous threat. It was in this issue that his lack of sanity was established. When he was incarcerated, we learn that it was not in Gotham Penitentiary as previous tales had it, but in a place called Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane.

Jack Kirby was one of the founding fathers of comic books, the major figure of the Silver Age of comic books in the 1960s-in which he revolutionized comics with the creation of the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Kirby brought two things to comic books: he coupled his prodigious imagination with realism and angst (his characters, like the Thing, were the first superheroes to wonder if their powers were a blessing or a curse), and he introduced a dynamic art style that included huge blocky hands with square fingers reaching right out to the reader in absurd but fun poses.

195). And with that, he “died” with a heart-stopping concoction of his own making. 2 Thirdly, essential to the Batman character is a refusal to kill and an aversion to guns in particular. Not to pick on him excessively, but in the second Burton film, Batman Returns, Michael Keaton’s Batman sits inside the protection of his armored Batmobile and burns alive an unprotected man with a flame from his rocket engine, after the other ineffectually menaced him by breathing fire in a cheap circus stunt.

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