You don't need me to tell you that the Batcave is a pretty cool place.

Superhero comics are a funny thing. They've been around forever—in Batman's case, eighty years—and as next Wednesday is about to remind us, they're approaching the point where issue #1000s are actually being released.

While Batman may have been born in 1939, the next two decades would start to shape him into the hero we know and love today, introducing key members of the Bat-Family like Robin, Alfred and the on-again-off-again love of Bruce Wayne’s life,

As Batman marks his 80^th anniversary in comics and entertainment, you’d have to imagine he’s proud of all he’s achieved (if Batman were one to allow himself to feel something so self-congratulatory as pride).