Why Batman, but Spider-Man and Iron Man?

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Why Batman, but Spider-Man and Iron Man? Why the inconsistency in how the characters names are written?

That's....a very good question. I've never even noticed that before.

When he first appeared in comic books in the 1930's he was "The Bat Man".

Then it was just "Bat Man".

I guess it finally got shortened to "Batman". You have to have long iconic history to get to that shortened name I guess.

Good question. It's confusing enough that it makes me wonder the correct spelling for each one.

Let's not forget Wonder Woman as opposed to Wonderwoman or Wonder-Woman.

http://www.blastr.com/2013-7-16/little- ... spider-man

Stan Lee put in the hyphen to prevent Spider-Man from being confused with Super Man. The link has copies of Twitter posts from Stan Lee as proof.

You know, I thought this was going to be a thread about whether Batman had aspie traits. He kind of does, to me anyway. To wit:

Prefers being alone. Okay, Alfred is always around, but that's not what I mean. Alfred's more of a caretaker than a social buddy. Does Bruce Wayne even have friends?

Extreme focus and singlemindedness on getting things done. Crimefighting. Spent ten years in the Himalayas learning obscure fighting techniques.

Extreme creativity. Batmobile, Bat cape, Bat signal, Bat-a-rang, Bat copter, Bat hooks, Bat this, Bat that.

Eccentric. What grown man cosplays all night long?

Secretive. Just who is The Batman?

Stoicism. Batman's seriousness makes Mr. Spock look like a circus clown.

Side note: Ahh. It feels SOOO nice to be able to speculate on whether a made-up character is autistic without the blasted comments from the WP Emperor of Autism.

Only an Aspie would design and build 45 different armored suits.