It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's The Bat-Signal!

Batman began alone. Just bitter Bruce Wayne waging his relentless war on crime. Then he got a Batmobile to make tooling around Gotham in pursuit of sundry thugs easier. Then he got a Robin to give someone for him to talk to, so he didn't seem quite as nutty as he actually was. And before long Batman had a belt full of gimmicks to help confront the like of Hugo Strange, the Penguin, the Joker, and the like. 

And then in Detective Comics #60 in the story "The Case of the Costume-Clad Killer" where he battles the Joker yet again, he got arguably one of the most iconic bits of equipment associated with the "Darknight Detective" -- he got a Bat-Signal! 

And now I've got one too. One of my Christmas presents was the tiny but workable Bat-Signal seen above. It's only a few inches tall (if that) but it can project a beam across a room of at least fifteen feet (I've tested it). The Bat-Signal comes with a tiny booklet which fills in the uninformed about Batman's origins, his equipment, his rogues gallery and more. I rest easier knowing that in the case of an emergency I just like Commissioner Gordon can call on the services of the Batman to give aid and assistance. Albeit he'll need to be exceedingly close. 

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