Bane is such a fixture of "Batman" media that most people forget he only debuted in the 1990s. In Bane's debut arc, "Knightfall," he discovered Batman's secret identity, wore Batman down by staging a ...

Supervillain Bane preparing to drop Batman over his knee spine-first has become a defining moment for the hero’s mythology. It made its way into Christopher Nolan’s trilogy-closing The Dark Knight ...