Batman Evolution

[MA-Caver]

Interesting photos of Batman portrayed in film/tv over the years... also how the Logo has changed as well...

http://redux.com/stream/item/1462617/Batman-Evolution

 

[Andy Moynihan]

As I understood it the yellow circle was added, plus more stylized bat shapes later,because they told DC they couldn't copyright just "the image of a bat".

 

[Omar B]

All those suits and yet they still can't get it right. Because a gray bodysuit is so impossible to do on film right.

Jim Lee!

 

[MBuzzy]

Seems like too many.....

 

[Cryozombie]

All those suits and yet they still can't get it right. Because a gray bodysuit is so impossible to do on film right.

Jim Lee!

Actually, the "Bat in the Sun" guy who does those Batman Fanfilms does a good job with that, as does Sandy Collora, the guy that did the Batman Dead End video and a few others, IMO.

 

[Omar B]

Yeah, but those look cheap.

Alex Ross!

 

[stickarts]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Omar B]

Ross is my all time favorite comic artist. His Superman is by far the most beautiful version of the character ever put on canvas. Especially the Kingdom Come Superman.

 

[Mark Jordan]

Yea, I remember these looks and this brings to mind too some onomatopoeia words like boom, ka blam, ka-boom, kow, pow. Just realized now that the previous batmen were short especially the one with a yellow background.

 

[Aikikitty]

As I understood it the yellow circle was added, plus more stylized bat shapes later,because they told DC they couldn't copyright just "the image of a bat".

I thought the yellow circle was originally added so the printers could tell if the color ink was printing correctly...for the darker colored panels.

I actually met Adam West twice some years back at a comic book show. That was before he became mayor of Quahog. lol

 

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

You might notice that dark blue and grey is used in place of black in many comics (most when I was a kid) as it is hard to make a charachter have a black suit and still get detail. (Darth vader, Snake Eyes, Destro, the Punisher, ect.)

So who is to say Batman is not suppossed to have a black cape and a black uniform? Black would be more like a bat, he's not BlueJay-Man.

Bat-Man is the coolist thing DC ever put out, Dark Horse and marvel all the way.

 

[Omar B]

It was an issue with the old newspaper style 4 color printing. You could not get black with lines in it (like his black cape with the scallops) so they used blue. Just like people still think the X-men wear blue for some reason because printing technology prior to the 80's could not do tone on tone black.