30 Years Later, DC’s Best Halloween Spooky Season Story Is Still Undisputed

Part of why Batman has endured for nearly 90 years as one of the most iconic characters in the history of fiction, let alone DC comic book source material, is that he is endlessly malleable within the conventions of whatever genre palette the World’s Greatest Detective happens to inhabit. For instance, the core Batman mythos is as palatable via a campy and absurdist Adam West as it is via an angsty and solemn Robert Pattinson because the character’s stories have been running that gamut thoroughly since the 1940s.