10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Batmobile

Batman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger and he first appeared in Detective Comics #27. In the story from that issue, “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate”, he drove a simple red Sedan without any Bat-adaptations. In three issues of Detective Comics, the description of a car that was called a “specially built high-powered auto” was attributed to the Dark Knight’s vehicle.

In Detective Comics #48, the vehicle is identified as the “Batmobile” for the first time as Batman and Robin drive all the way to Kentucky to stop criminals from looting the US Gold Depository at the wrongly named Fort Stox. This issue is the first time the car is called by that name. At the end of the story named “The Secret Cavern”, they return to Gotham on the Batplane.

Like the Batmobile, the Batplane is another vehicle that evolved with the times. The first flying vehicle was actually a “Bat Gyro” that appeared in Detective Comics #31 and was a helicopter that Batman used to fly to Europe. It had a Bat motif and could hover in mid-air. The actual Batplane premiered in Batman #1. It was a fixed-wing aircraft with a propeller on the front. It also had a Bat symbol on the nose of the plane.