When Bob Kane and Bill Finger developed Batman for Detective Comics in 1939, they had no idea that he would become one of the most popular figures in global culture and endure for 77 years, they just needed a new hero to follow in the wake of Superman’s premier a year earlier. Yet here we are in 2016 with another version of Batman in theaters in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the upcoming Suicide Squad, with a solo film in the works as well as being a central figure in the upcoming Justice League films, the first of which is due out in 2017.