Whereas Batman has gone by means of myriad iterations over time, many artists are cautious to maintain the character within the shadows. A lurking, monster-like presence usually accompanies him, and in a number of Batman function movies, he has stated that he attire in a bat costume particularly to frighten criminals. Though not all the time. In Tim Burton’s 1989 movie, Batman appears to be drawn to bats as a result of “they’re nice survivors,” and the 1966 Batman film dispenses with darkness altogether, letting Batman breathe overtly within the daylight. 

The 1966 movie and TV sequence have been so influential that artists again at DC comics started to darken the character dramatically as a deliberate distinction to Adam West. Artist Neal Adams, who handed away in 2022, was famously put answerable for drawing “Batman” comics within the early ’70s, and the author Dennis O’Neil added a extra grounded, real looking tone to the comics than beforehand seen. It could be Adams and O’Neil who will be credited for remodeling Batman into the “normal” model of the character that almost all audiences know at this time. That’s, if such a normal even exists. 

It additionally seems that, when Adams and O’Neil have been first conceiving of their anti-Adam West model of Batman, Christopher Lee was nonetheless showing as Dracula in a long-running sequence of horror motion pictures for Hammer studios. In 1958, Lee appeared in “Horror of Dracula,” which was adopted by “The Brides of Dracula” in 1960, “Dracula: Prince of Darkness” in 1966, and “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave” in 1968. It was the final one which Adams and O’Neil have been seemingly tapping into when making their comics.