Detective Comics (1937)

Detective Comics #27 (May 1939), cover by Bob Kane Batman's debut cover is a rooftop snatch: the caped figure swings across the sky on a rope with a crook clamped under his arm while two men in the foreground look up, one of them holding a gun. The viewer stands with the criminals, which makes the hero feel like a threat arriving from above. That rope swing and the low, looking-up framing are swiped often, and Arthur Adams put Deadpool through the same routine on Deadpool #27 in 2010. Compare it with Amazing Fantasy #15 to see the swing-and-carry idea two decades before Spider-Man.