The Long-Forgotten Batman Doppelgänger Most Comic Book Fans Have Never Heard Of

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There was absolutely no way Bob Kane and Bill Finger could have known what they were creating with Batman. The character debuted in 1939's "Detective Comics" #27, in which he was a lone vigilante taking down criminals by whatever means necessary (even if it meant using guns, which he wouldn't forsake until 1940). 85 years later, Batman is not only a box office icon with enduring star power , he's long since ascended to mythical status, becoming one of the few pop culture figures deserving of "icon" status. But things would have been very different had audiences resonated more with an oddly similar character that debuted the very same year as Kane and Finger's "weird figure of the dark."

The story of this Batman doppelgänger actu