The Bat-signal in live action cinema (1943-2022) 🦇🔦🌃 The Bat-signal debuted 80 years ago in February 1942’s Detective Comics #60. In Jack Schiff and Bob Kane’s story "Case of the Costume-Clad Killers", the Joker has a new gang of criminals under his thumb dressing up as policemen and firemen, robbing banks throughout Gotham City. Batman and Robin (Dick Grayson) have to track down the Clown Prince of Crime to stop this injustice. Being described as “an eerie symbol” of a giant bat matching the