Black bases denote stock minifigs, dark-bley bases are modified stock minifigs (generally nothing more than using a yellow Sharpie marker to fix the nasty corpse-color), and purple bases are for what I consider to be full custom designs. As much as possible, I've tried to stick to authentic LEGO parts, and avoided custom decals or paint. I don't, however, have any issues with using custom capes or with color-correcting the skin color. ^@^ - ^@^ == ^@^ - ^@^ == ^@^ - ^@^ == ^@^ - ^@^ == ^@^ - ^@^ == ^@^ - ^@^ == ^@^ - ^@^ == ^@^ - ^@^ *1st Appearance Batman - introduced May 1939 in Detective Comics #27, featuring Brickarms' Savage Mask (with painted eyes) and a special custom MMCB cape. And yes, he's even got the purple gloves. *Bruce Wayne - revealed to be Batman's billionaire alter ego in the same comic. *Golden Age Batman - over the course of the next nine issues of Detective Comics, Batman's appearance changed quite a bit, with the gloves changing colors to match the rest of his costume, the ears getting longer and then straighter, the blue highlights on his costume overtaking the black base color, the gloves getting longer and covering the cuffs of his sleeves, and eventually with the February 1940 release of Detective Comics #36 the addition of spines to the gloves completed the look that would essentially continue through until the introduction of 1964's Silver Age Batman. This minifig also features a custom MMCB cape. *Robin I - introduced April, 1940 in Detective Comics #38. Green feet would complete the look, but that'd either involve paint, or Sharpie marker (which would probably bleed off onto the bright yellow cape). *The Joker - introduced in the Spring 1940 premiere issue of Batman. Twice. The stock minifig looks almost exactly like he appeared in Batman: The Animated Series, but the hair is shaped wrong, and the gloves should be white. Fortunately, they finally released a better hairstyle in green. I also added a special "Bang" gun, using the gun I originally came up with for Harley Quinn. *Catwoman - originally introduced as "The Cat" in the Spring 1940 premiere issue of Batman. *The Scarecrow - introduced Fall 1941 in World's Finest Comics #3. I don't like the hat, but I haven't found anything that works better yet. BTW, if you've never really looked at it before, check out the shape of the mouth on his pumpkin bombs... *The Penguin - introduced December 1941 in Detective Comics #58, I gave him an umbrella that can serve as either a mini-helicopter or a melee weapon. **Penguin's Birds - B:TAS often had Penguin using birds to assist him in his schemes, probably drawing from the use of penguins in Batman Returns. I built a set of four custom emperor penguins, and one condor, loosely based on a mix of Scrap (Penguin's condor from B:TAS) and a larger vulture designed by Toshiya. *Two-Face - introduced August 1942 in Detective Comics #66, but this version was clearly based on the iconic B:TAS look. I've updated him with a sand-purple hand (to match the face), and played around with a couple different shades of purple Sharpies to extend the purple half of his face to cover the entire left side of his head (matching the split color in the hairdo in both front and back). *Alfred Pennyworth - proudly serving the Wayne family since April 1943, & introduced in Batman #16. *The Riddler - introduced October 1948 in Detective Comics #140. He really needs a green bowler. I finally tracked down a length of purple rigid 3mm hose, cut off a 3-stud length, stuck a trans-neon green hook-hand in one end, and now he has a question-mark cane. If I can find the same style of hose in lime-green, I'll probably switch it (the purple hose doesn't match the emblem on his chest as nicely as lime-green hose would match the TNG hook-hand). *Mad Hatter - introduced October 1948 in Batman #49. I wouldn't have even considered making this character, but I spotted a rare minifig head (only used in one mini Racers set) that looked exactly like Jervis Tetch from B:TAS. He's got a pack of four hat-zombies who bring him valuables (er...some more valuable than others, but there's no accounting for taste), all of which use the nasty corpse-colored heads, and none of which are smiling. *Red Hood - introduced February 1951 in Detective Comics 1968 as the Joker's origin story (note that there is an actual Joker head with green hair under that helmet). I got the idea for the helmet from using clear domes as bubble helmets in my first Moonbase module a few years earlier, and once I realized they came in red this was an obvious custom. *Firefly - introduced June 1952 in Detective Comics #184, I based the design loosely on his appearance in The New Batman Adventures. Since I started by picking the head (taken from the Orient Expedition line), I was very lucky that the neck bracket was made in dark-grey before the color change, and that I had a spare Jango Fett lying around that I could swipe the torso from. His flamethrower is just the new Stormtrooper blaster with a trans-neon orange cone on the barrel to secure the gout of flames coming out of the barrel. *Mr. Freeze - originally introduced as "Mr. Zero" in February 1959's Batman #121. I really liked the head they used for the stock LEGO minifig...and that was about it. I really tried to get the look close to how he first appeared in B:TAS, but the costume proved to be far too plain without the ability to add details to the arms and legs. I settled for spicing up the design a bit with a Spyrius torso and standard blue airtanks. Like the 1st Appearance Batman, he has sand-purple gloves, and his freeze gun uses the same design as Firefly's flamethrower. And yes, that's a white standard male hair under his bubble helmet. I don't know why it exists, but luckily it does, as that and the hair I used for Red Hood are the only two shapes that will fit unmodified under these bubble helmets. ***Mr. Freeze Victim - After remembering the marbled ice panels, I decided that Mr. Freeze would work better in a layout if he had a victim or two, encased in ice. The fleshies work perfectly for someone who's frozen solid, as long as you use the right face. Too bad they don't have a better male grimace... *Bleyface II - reenvisioned in December 1961 for Detective Comics #298, the second Clayface was the one that got used in B:TAS. I based the physical shape on that look as much as possible, but unfortunately the only two color options that will work for the entire construction are black and dark-bley. Hence the name. As soon as a few more key parts become available in reddish-brown, I'm making a new version, even if I have to come up with a completely new design for the super-arm. *Poison Ivy - introduced June 1966 in Batman #181, she really needs a rampaging horde of plant monsters. Maybe someday... *Man-Bat - introduced June 1970 in Detective Comics #400, I sorta managed to pull off a 100% stock solution to his design. I'd love to use a 1x1 plate with clips on opposite sides to reduce the bulk on his back, but even if that gets produced as a new part, it'd never be made in old dark-grey at this point. He does actually look better with Brickarms' dark-grey Savage Mask, but then that leaves me needing to figure out what to do for the mouth, so for now the werewolf head stays (there wolf, there castle). *Ra's al Ghul - introduced June 1971 in Batman #232. I'd been wanting to make a minifig of him for quite a while, but one key part was missing until the Series 2 Collectible Minifigs debuted. The look of this minifig is loosely based on how he first appeared in Batman: The Animated Series. *Killer Croc - introduced February 1983 in Detective Comics #523. I now know where to get green hands. No longer does he have to wear gloves. And the guy's supposed to have skin like leather. Why should he feel compelled to wear gloves in the first place? *Nightwing - Robin's new identity as introduced July 1984 in Tales of the New Teen Titans #44. I gave him Robin's pompadour because no self-respecting superhero should be seen cultivating exotic ferns atop their heads. Seriously. *Black Mask - introduced August 1985 in Batman #386. I probably still would have made him if I'd had to use the old "evil skull" head, but he looks so much better with the new Undead version. I gave him the white suit because it really offsets the black head/hand color nicely, and as an added bonus it helps him really stand out in a street scene. *Dark Knight Returns Robin - as depicted February 1986 in the self-titled initial chapter of Frank Miller's iconic miniseries, though she wouldn't put on the costume until the opening pages of the second issue. Her costume is based off of Marvel's Jubilee, whose costume is based off of the original Robin, which is one of the most famous instances of one of the Big Two re-stealing an idea from the other. I probably wouldn't have made this minifig if I didn't have a TDKR Batman to go with it. *Dark Knight Returns Batman - as depicted April 1986 starting about halfway through "The Dark Knight Triumphant", the second chapter of TDKR. This was originally just a simple torso swap with the Golden Age blue/grey Batman to make two new costumes, but then I happened to flip through the TDKR compilation and spotted the shot on page 114 (if you have a copy handy, check it out). *Burton Batman - as introduced June 1989 in Tim Burton's Batman film. *Robin III - introduced as Tim Drake in August 1989 in Batman #436 (though he wouldn't become Robin for over a year). The torso is a dead match for how he appears on the cover of the first issue of the Robin miniseries, but the LEGO minifig version was too cheerful looking. I gave him dark-green limbs (really wishing they made dark-green hands as well), a flat-top hairdo, and a two-tone MMCB cape to complete the look. *Harley Quinn - introduced September 1992 as an original character for Batman: The Animated Series, she proved to be so popular that she was quickly inducted into the official DC cast for use in the comic books. Wanting to stay as true as possible to her first appearance, I swapped the white hands for one black and one red. I'd wanted to give her a cartoony-looking gun, but everything I came up with looked way too goofy until I remembered the drill. Add a red TECHNIC ball on the front, and it makes a perfect boxing-glove gun. I hated the hammer that she originally came with, but liked the look from the LEGO Batman video game, so I retooled it, getting rid of the studded hammer faces, building up the core, and giving it a longer handle (I'd prefer tan, but brown is the best I could do with the umbrella stand). **Harley's Babies - two hyenas (what else?) that she "raises" with the love of her life, The Joker. *B:TAS Poison Ivy - as introduced September 1992 in Batman: The Animated Series. I always preferred the bright orange hair for Poison Ivy, and the shorter/fuller Hermione hairstyle, but it never looked good with the dark-red eyebrows on the official Ivy head. Then the Agents series introduced Clawdette, with the same pale green eyeshadow that the original Ivy head has. **Ivy's Plantmen - these are based mostly on the Ivy goons from the LEGO Batman video game for the Nintendo DS, but I'd really like to make them look more like the plant-monsters that Ivy uses in the "House and Garden" episode of B:TAS. *Bane - as introduced January 1993 in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1. Man, I wish there was a good solution for making him look all pumped up on Venom... *Lazarus Pit Ra's al Ghul - as seen in "The Demon's Quest", a two-part episode from Batman: The Animated Series that aired May 1993. I'd been waiting on on the Series 2 Collectible Minifigs for the hair I used, but I hadn't even considered using the Surfer torso until after I'd built the first Ra's minifig. In the first episode, Ra's is lowered into a Lazarus Pit and emerges wearing nothing but green pants. In the second part, he gets into a swordfight with Batman...after ripping off his own shirt. *Lazarus Pit Batman - Also from the B:TAS two-parter, "The Demon's Quest" (May 1993), Batman was captured by Ra's al Ghul's minions, who tore off his shirt and cape and confiscated his utility belt. They let him keep his mask, though, so this is how he appeared during the swordfight scene. *Phantasm - as introduced on Christmas 1993 in the animated feature film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. I used the white Firebender head, which sorta works...after I spent about an hour working on it with a very-hard-to-find Slate Grey Sharpie, and a very-easy-to-find black Sharpie, so as to get rid of the severe racoon eyes it originally had. It's still not a perfect look, but it works. Desert Ra's al Ghul - In the B:TAS episode "Avatar" (aired May 1994), Ra's shows up wearing his standard green suit and cape, but partway through the episode he can be seen in an Egyptian tomb wearing khaki pants and a loose white shirt. *Mr. Freeze' Head - as updated October 1997 for The New Batman Adventures, Mr. Freeze lost his entire body due to the advanced stages of his unusual medical condition...but they managed to keep his head alive. For most of the episode, he's wearing a robotic body that looks very similar to his B:TAS costume, but there is a brief scene where his disembodied head is walking around on this little four-legged spidery contraption. *Justice League Batman - as introduced November 2001 in the Justice League animated series (later renamed Justice League Unlimited). The B:TAS outfit had a yellow shield that matched Burton's batsuit, and the TNBA outfit was closer to dark-grey with a solid black batsymbol, but the Justice League outfit combined the two looks and is very close to what you see here, after the addition of a custom MMCB cape. *Hush Batman - as depicted December 2002 in Detective Comics #608 at the start of the Hush storyarc. The other half of the torso-swap, I was shocked to see that this, too, looks dead-on like an iconic depiction of Batman, only this time it's from Jim Lee's artwork. *Nolan Batman - as introduced May 2006 in Chris Nolan's Batman Begins. If only they'd made the body black, as would be proper... *Bat-Bots - 100% original creations. I made two of them, and they're not power armor or anything like that. They're straight-up crimefighting robots. You know, just in case Batman has too many villains to chase down on his own. *ProBats - 100% original creations. Again, I made two. They're a combination of the look of Darth Maul's miniprobes and the fact that the Type II Batarang (with the hole in the middle) looks so much like a helicopter rotor. Once I figured out how to make a roughly spherical body, the rest was just a matter of fleshing out the design. I only wish I'd been able to cut the diameter of the sphere portion in half.