The Bat-signal in live action cinema (1943-2022) 🦇🔦🌃 The Bat-signal debuted 80 years ago in February 1942’s Detective Comics #60. In Jack Schiff and Bob Kane’s story "Case of the Costume-Clad Killers", the Joker has a new gang of criminals under his thumb dressing up as policemen and firemen, robbing banks throughout Gotham City. Batman and Robin (Dick Grayson) have to track down the Clown Prince of Crime to stop this injustice. Being described as “an eerie symbol” of a giant bat matching the

Batman’s Bat-signal in live action cinema and television (1943-2022). This important piece of Batman’s comic book iconography, that had its debut in 1942’s Detective Comics #60, hit the big screen for the first time 80 years ago in Columbia Picture's 15 chapter serial “Batman” (1943) starring Lewis Wilson as film’s first Dark Knight.🦇🔦🌃 | History of The Batman