Couple that with a successful business entrepreneur that would set the idealistic image of the ‘career-accomplished’ 1940’s American businessman and the result is simple: Batman. What could be more alert, sensitive and dark than bats? So silent that the noise of their wings perfectly fades away in the wind and so sensitive that they would perceive danger miles away. That’s when Batman was born in 1939: a cape and a mask, but instead of drawing on the roots of Spanish cavalry and riding a horse, Bruce Wayne was drawing on a force of nature and driving a machine that looked a lot like a rocket. He’s certainly one of the best-known heroes of the 20th and 21st century: the only creature rising from the darkness whose purpose is not evil and whose soul is 200% human.īob Kane had to come up with a character charismatic enough to compete with Superman and whose charisma would match Zorro’s and The Phantom’s: no need to say challenging enough!
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