Once again, the packaging here is to die for. Seeing as how I wasn’t terribly keen on having this figure, I was really tempted to just leave him sealed up, and I’m really kind of wishing I had. The presentation here is just that amazingly good and it would be really cool to have at least one figure from this great little sub-line still in the package and hanging on the wall.

Once out of the package, Batman is a solid figure, but I don’t find myself digging him as much as the All Stars Batman that stands in as theBats in my DCUC collection. The sculpts are largely the same, at least from the neck down. The biggest difference is the use of blue here on the cowl, cape, gauntlets, and boots, as opposed to the black. This Batman also has the much larger, plain bat emblem tampo’ed on his chest. I can go back and forth all day on whether I like the black or the blue better and in the end it’s a trade off, but I definitely like the more modern bat emblem better than the Golden Age one. I also find the head sculpt on this Batman a little off-putting. It’s a little too simple, and I don’t really care for Batman’s somewhat cheesy smirk. It just doesn’t suit him. The coloring, on the other hand, is absolutely crisp and without any noticeable blemishes. That all having been said, this is a fine figure, particularly if you happen to find your DC action figure shelves Bats-less.

Bats features the standard DCUC male articulation. You get a ball jointed neck; THe arms have ball joints at the shoulders, swivels at the biceps and wrists, and hinged elbows; His legs have universal movment in the hips, hinges in the knees and ankles, and swivels in the thighs. The torso features the standard DCUC ab crunch hinge, but Bats does not swivel at the waist.

Batman comes with only his figure stand. Unlike the other figures in this wave, his is gold. It’s still personalized on the front and makes for a very nice extra. He also comes with an exclusive mini-poster, which is a mock-up of a comic book cover and is much cooler than the one that came with Catman. I think Mattel could have afforded to drop a batarang into the package, but I probably would have only lost it anyway.

Like I said last time, this assortment of figures came out to about $20 a pop with shipping, and that’s a lot to pay for this solid, but somewhat generic, Batman. He’s a perfectly fine figure, if you find him on the pegs for a decent price, and I’m certainly fine with having to buy him in order to get Catman and Batgirl, but he’s not going to replace my All Stars Batman anytime soon.