10 Best Batman Costumes Of All Time
1. Neal Adams 70s Batman
Like Adam West's Batman, this one flies in the face of what many expect from Batman nowadays. Beyond the grey body, the Batsuit is so very bright, with a yellow emblem and utility belt, and almost ultramarine blue cape, cowl and underoos.
Neal Adams' Batman is the perfect combination of new and old - the brightness of 50s and 60s Batman (including West), but with the physicality and fatherly sternness of modern Batman, before he went overboard.
For many, this is the Batsuit we picture when we think about Batman; one which inspired, in part, the look and tone of the Animated Series and was worn not by a gleefully violent vigilante but Batman the adventurer, friend, father figure and World's Greatest Detective. It's hard to picture any other era's Batman pulling this one off. Unless, of course, you go around wearing it while cracking heads in the Arkham City DLC.
Adams has since returned to Batman in the utterly bonkers Batman: Odyssey. And, while the storytelling, writing and characterisation may have gone in some bizarre directions (there's Batman with a gun again!), those duds look as incredible as they ever did. Some things never go out of fashion.