Batman has long been DC Comics’ most popular superhero, and as a result, he’s headlined in more spin-off comic titles than any other character DC has ever produced. His popularity has prompted many writers to speculate about the Dark Knight’s future and possible incarnations. While it’s a sound concept for a story, at one point this resulted in six possible Batmen cluttering up DC’s possible futures. While they didn’t all coexist in the same moment, it still became one of the strangest quandaries for prolific DC readers to navigate.It’s almost impossible to count every name that’s carried Batman’s mantle across his eighty-four-year history. Even as DC’s stories tried to establish Bruce Wayne’s definitive successor, Batman has found himself associated with several popular future variations, some of which have the potential to contradict one another. At one point this was a huge problem but, amazingly, over time DC Comics found a way for them to collectively exist as a part of DC Comics’ potential future.The first attempt at creating a futuristic Dark Knight came in 1944 in the storyline aptly named ‘The Batman of the Future’ (by Joseph Greene, Dick Sprang, Jerry Robinson and Whitney Ellsworth) which told the story a man named Brane who became the Batman of the 31st Century. This storyline was later replicated by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang in 1951’s ‘The Lost Legion of Space,’ which told an eerily similar story about a man named ‘Brane Taylor’ who also became a 31st Century Batman. Despite the importance Brane and Brane Taylor had in establishing the ‘Future Batman’ trope, they were largely forgotten by fans as more iconic renditions of future Dark Knights began to emerge in the 1990s.RELATED: Who Is The Forgotten Batman Villain Jim Lee Created – And Why Should He Return?
Batman has long been DC Comics’ most popular superhero, and as a result, he’s headlined in more spin-off comic titles than any other character DC has ever produced. His popularity has prompted many writers to speculate about the Dark Knight’s future and possible incarnations. While it’s a sound concept for a story, at one point this resulted in six possible Batmen cluttering up DC’s possible futures. While they didn’t all coexist in the same moment, it still became one of the strangest quandaries for prolific DC readers to navigate.
It’s almost impossible to count every name that’s carried Batman’s mantle across his eighty-four-year history. Even as DC’s stories tried to establish Bruce Wayne’s definitive successor, Batman has found himself associated with several popular future variations, some of which have the potential to contradict one another. At one point this was a huge problem but, amazingly, over time DC Comics found a way for them to collectively exist as a part of DC Comics’ potential future.
The first attempt at creating a futuristic Dark Knight came in 1944 in the storyline aptly named ‘The Batman of the Future’ (by Joseph Greene, Dick Sprang, Jerry Robinson and Whitney Ellsworth) which told the story a man named Brane who became the Batman of the 31st Century. This storyline was later replicated by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang in 1951’s ‘The Lost Legion of Space,’ which told an eerily similar story about a man named ‘Brane Taylor’ who also became a 31st Century Batman. Despite the importance Brane and Brane Taylor had in establishing the ‘Future Batman’ trope, they were largely forgotten by fans as more iconic renditions of future Dark Knights began to emerge in the 1990s.
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