DC's batman started out as a killer. A dark man how starts his first comic throwing someone of a roof. [Put scan of book here] he later got a side kick robin and the comic got lighter. Batman would never kill and he fought crazy people like the joker or two-face instead of just gangsters and killers. The villains had gimmicks Two-Face would steal from the 2nd bank on the 2nd of February at 2:02. Batman became even more light-hearted when got a bat-family. There was Batdog, batman, robin, Batwoman, bat girl, Nightwing (the first robin who grew up) and an elf like alien who believe he is Batman's biggest fan Bat-Mite (first appearance-1959). In the 80's batman became darker again. With the comic book 'the dark knight returns' where frank miller creator of '300' and 'sin city' wrote and drew the comic. In this story batman has given up being a hero after the last robin died. Gotham city is over run with gang and mutant like people. Batman once again cleans up Gotham with a new robin a girl this time. In this batman is old and out of practise he get shot at he bleeds and there is graphical violence. In this book batman didn’t smile and joke around, fighting killers and criminals isn’t fun. Batman started out dark but he never has any violent weapons and only threw a guy off a building. The new batman nearly beat people to death if it wasn’t for self control. Also criminals became more twisted over time. Joker was just a gimmick. A new villain who face has been damaged by acid and blames batman. His face is white and his mouth is stuck as a smile. Over time he became a twisted evil person who now only cares to make batman’s life a mess. [Add joker info here]