Copper gadgets, Jack the Ripper and neo-Victorian Batman in Sam Liu’s Gotham by Gaslight

text by Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz The history of Batman, though nominally beginning in 1939, has much older roots. The creation of the comic book hero is disputed – whether the credit belongs to Bob Kane or Bill Fingers; although both authors cite different sources as their inspiration (Leonardo da Vinci’s drafts, Robert the Bruce, Baroness Orczy’s […]

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