The rise of the super villain

Batman is cool and all, but it's really the super-villains we drool over in the batman lore and these super villains appear early and often in the first few Batman Detective comics. Superman and Wonderwoman felt generic because there were no super enemies to fight. Superman has all these crazy powers, yet he finds himself fighting petty crime that blurs from one strip to the next. And his one villain was a dude named "Ultra-Humanite". If that's the name an evil genius wracks his brain to come up with, then I question his genius. Batman's villains were distinctive and creative. Doctor Death, The Monk, and even villains popular today like Hugo Strange and The Joker helped differentiate one story from another and didn't force the audience to focus on Batman. The villains were all crazy, and the various death traps and ways the tried to kill Batman were out there. The duc tried to spin Batman to death, one of my favorite attempts. It's always amusing to see how bad villains are at actually killing good guys. Batman, on the other hand, seems to have no problem with it. Some of the villains come across as goofy, and Batman might be the scariest character of the lot excluding the Joker with his smiling to die gimmick.

 Seeing what characters had sticking power is interesting, and even Batman's fiancee whatsername doesn't seem to make the cut and Batman's little red hotrod has transitioned into a blacker Batmobile. The Joker, however, has arguably  achieved more fame than the Batman himself and looks almost identical to how he was first drawn. There's proof if you ever go to ComicCon.