![]() It’s this endless adaptability that has made him so lasting, and ultimately human.īut it’s also Batman’s fundamental nerdiness that uniquely resonates with his fans and makes them fiercely protective of him. ![]() How we perceive his character, whether he’s delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic double entendres with Robin the Boy Wonder, speaks to who we are and how we wish to be seen by the world. In this “smart, witty, and engrossing” ( The Wall Street Journal) cultural critique, NPR contributor and book critic Glen Weldon provides “a sharp, deeply knowledgeable, and often funny look at the cultural history of Batman and his fandom” ( Chicago Tribune) to discover why it is that we can’t get enough of the Dark Knight.įor nearly a century, Batman has cycled through eras of dark melodrama and light comedy and back again. Yet, despite these endless transformations, he remains one of our most revered cultural icons. Since his debut in Detective Comics #27, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective a planet-hopping gadabout a campy Pop Art sensation a pointy-eared master spy and a grim ninja of the urban night. “A roaring getaway car of guilty pleasures” ( The New York Times Book Review), Glen Weldon’s The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises and falls of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes and the fans who love him-now with a new afterword.
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