10 Best Batman Costumes Of All Time
3. Detective Comics No. 27
The daddy of them all, without which there would be no Batman as we know him.
Looking at Bill Finger's original design, it's startling how little has changed. The cape's a little weird and the gloves are purple, but otherwise, it's all there. The grey bodysuit, black outside-underwear, chest emblem, pointy cowl and yellow utility belt... it's all there.
A lot has changed since Batman's debut in Detective comics No. 27 (the Caped Crusader no longer runs around with a pistol shooting folk, for one), but it's a testament to Bill Finger's original vision just how quickly this character captured the reader's imagination and set him on the road to becoming (one of?) the greatest comic book character(s) of all time. The purple gloves have got to go, though.