As the daughter of supervillain Cluemaster, she donned the costume of the Spoiler in an effort to put a stop to her father’s crime sprees. Her actions gained the attention of Batman and Robin, who tried to dissuade her from continuing her vigilantism. Working alongside them, she developed a relationship with Tim Drake, who helped her through a pregnancy by an absentee ex-boyfriend.

Now on Batman’s radar, Stephanie was welcomed as a reserve Bird of Prey, even becoming fast friends with Batgirl Cassandra Cain, trading reading lessons for fight training. While patrolling with Tim, Stephanie was badly injured. His guilt over not being able to protect her in addition to his father finding out about his double life as Robin led to his quitting as Robin. Feeling responsible, Stephanie stitched together a Robin outfit of her own, and convinced Batman to take her on as a partner, thus becoming the first ‘official’ female Robin. Unfortunately her inexperience, and need to prove herself led her to igniting a citywide gang war and eventually to her ‘death’.

Stephanie later returns approximately a year later, having faked her death and been living in Africa in the meantime. Through a complex series of events, she ruins her relationship with Tim Drake, but instead inherits the Batsuit worn by Cassandra Cain, who disappears for reasons unknown. After being put through rigorous training by Batman, she takes over as the new Batgirl under the watchful eye of Oracle. After a few scrapes, a stronger, better trained, and more mature Stephanie makes the role her own by discarding Cassandra’s suit for the current Spoiler-purple trimmed Batgirl suit.

Bat In The Sun productions gives us another excellent addition to its Batman fan film portfolio with Batman Legends, a compilation of clips featuring faithful renditions of several scenes including the creation of the Joker, the death of Jason Todd, and Bane’s breaking of the Batman. Also notable was a shot of the original Bob Kane Batman with the wide ears :)

Here’s a black and white shot of Batman gliding down with his cape.

Although Batman technically began his career using guns, he was retconned as being loathe to the idea due to their role in his his parents’ death. Thus, writer Grant Morrison set this scene; Batman’s ‘death’ during Final Crisis. At the moment that Batman breaks his sacrosanct code, he effects his own demise. By using a gun to kill, the Batman is no more.

Here, Andrew Zubko gives us an epic rematch of the classic battle between Batman and Shark. For the uninitiated, round 1 was during the 1966 Batman film starring Adam West, seen below. It was also yet another example of Batman’s ‘superpower’ of ultra-preparedness.

In recent times, Edward Nygma proclaims that he has reformed, and works as a private investigator for hire. However, you can be sure that the Batman keeps an eye on him at all times, in case the Riddler makes a grand return.

Interestingly, the Riddler was a minor, throwaway character until he was introduced to the Adam West television show where he quickly became an A-list Batman villain with his famous line “Riddle me this, Batman…”.