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A cape becomes shelter.
30 interpretations.
Trace the lineage of Todd McFarlane’s Batman #423 across comics, magazines, scrapbooks, ashcans, and published art books.
The origin pointBatman #423 · September 1988
The original cover
A protective silhouette with a life of its own.
Todd McFarlane turns Batman’s cape into the image’s architecture, wrapping a frightened woman beneath a moonlit Gotham skyline.
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