Start with "Detective Comics (vol. 1)", just get as many you can. Then "Batman (vol. 1)", also as many as you can. Then "the Outsiders", "The Brave and the Bold (NOT Batman: The Brave and the Bold)".
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His outfit.When Bob Kane first began writing the Batman comics, he was writing for Amalgam Comics, which was a short lived under comic book company for both DC and Marvel comics. At that time he was only called referred to as "The Bat-Man" and still referred to at times as "The Batman". The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939), and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics. While in Amalgam Comics, he was an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
May 1939, in Detective Comics #27
1st Batman comic book appearance - Detective Comics #27 (1939) 1st Batman comic strip - 1943 1st Batman movie - Batman (13 part serial released 1943) 1st Batman TV series - 1966 1st Batman feature film - Batman (1989)
The whole series of the current Batman and Robin run(#1-25) as well as Batman #687-#713, Detective Comics#864-881, Justice League #42-59, Streets of Gotham were his main appearances.
Batman was co-created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane in 1939 in Detective Comics 27. Bob Kane came up with an original Batman sketch, but Bill Finger didn't like it and made his own version of a Batman costume, the one which inspired modern versions of his costumes.