Back broken, exhausted, lost, Bruce handed the Batmantle to Jean-Paul Valley, a guy Dick called "a nutcase altar boy". But if you're going to follow the grim'n'gritty trend, might as well do it in a killer Quesada design. First Azbat!

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The 1996 Elsewords by Howard Chaykin set in the late 30s has a brown-clad Batman (way before Batman Begins!) against fifth-columnists and conspirators with WWII looming in the horizon. is Dark Allegiances!

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When Bruce went globetrotting in that kickass suit from he left Gotham and the Batman mantle in the very capable of Dick Grayson. What did he do, suit-wise? GO PAJAMAS, OF COURSE. Courtesy of Master Frank Quitely the Grayson!

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And the first entry, striking fear into the hearts of the criminals for the first time ever... The Bat-Man's 1939 debut in Detective Comics

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