While everyone knows the story of how Bruce Wayne became Batman, not everyone knows the real-life story of how the character has morphed over the years into the one we see today in movies, video games, and comic books. But in new book, The Caped Crusade: Batman And The Rise Of Nerd Culture (hardcover, digital), writer Glen Weldon doesn’t just explores the character’s durability and mutability, he also widens his scope to examine what Batman’s durability and mutability says about our modern culture.