When Clem Sohn met his end at a Paris air show in 1937, flailing desperately as he plunged to earth with a pair of defective parachutes, his death was considered tragic but hardly shocking. The winged ...

Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego, Batman, debuted in March 1939, going on to become one of the all-time beloved comic superheroes. But before the Dark Knight took the moniker, the name “Batman” belonged ...