6 Wildest Batman Stories Never Published

4, Kingdom Of The Mad

There may be no musician who jumped into comics more successfully than Gerard Way. His Umbrella Academy won several awards and was optioned by Universal, and while he's hardly a full-timer, he's kept his hand in, most recently in Edge of Spider-Verse and Vertigo Quarterly. DC greenlit "Kingdom of the Mad" for its Vertigo line. Way never made the plot of the series clear, but he tweeted some intriguing sketches and character notes...

only eats rats... Thinks he's a bat... The inside of the cape has a massive drawing of a magical kingdom that he made up, like his version of Heaven. He has ESP, can turn into a bat, and can see into the future, but only he knows about these powers.

€œI€™m Mr. Freeze! I like to dress up as my dead wife in armor I sculpted out of scrap-metal from her car accident!€ pic.twitter.com/xNnluYpeXU

€” goth claudia (@gerardway) June 2, 2013

Odds Of Being Good:70%. Some of the ideas here seem almost too oddball, but if there's one mythos that can take a little gothic experimentation, it's Batman's. Odds Of Being Published:20%. DC has shown interest, and if Way's career ever slows down, he might have the freedom or even the need to flesh this project out. DC is definitely about as friendly to alternate worlds as it's ever been.