.
Pre-Crisis Bat-Mite regularly appeared in
Batman,
Detective Comics, and ''
World's Finest Comics for five years. Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk teamed up four times in the pages of World's Finest Comics'' to antagonize Superman and Batman. In 1964, however, when the Batman titles were revamped under new editor
Julius Schwartz, Bat-Mite vanished along with other members of the Batman extended family, such as
Batwoman,
Bat-Girl, and
Ace the Bat-Hound. After this, only three more Bat-Mite stories were published in the pre-
Crisis DC Universe: two more Bat-Mite/Mxyzptlk team ups in ''World's Finest Comics'' #152 (August 1965) and #169 (September 1967) (which were not edited by Schwartz, but by
Mort Weisinger), and "Bat-Mite's New York Adventure" from
Detective Comics #482 (February–March 1979), in which the imp visits the DC Comics offices and insists that he be given his own feature in a Batman comic. This story featured protestors with picket signs shouting "We want Bat-Mite!" outside the
Tishman Building (where DC's editorial offices were located at the time), and was accompanied by an editorial comment that this story was published to acknowledge the real-life requests of fans for this character's revival.
Post-Crisis After the continuity-changing 1985
limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths was published, Bat-Mite was mostly removed from the Batman comics canon. Bat-Mite made an appearance in
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #38, although he may have been the
hallucination of a drug-addled criminal named Bob Overdog. This comic states that Bat-Mite is one of the many admirers of superheroes from another dimension. This version of Bat-Mite later returned in
Batman: Mitefall — A Legends of the Dark Mite Special, a
one-shot book which was both part of, and a parody of, the Batman storyline
Knightfall (with Overdog briefly in the
Jean-Paul Valley role). In #6 of the 1999 ''Batman and Superman: World's Finest
miniseries, Mr. Mxyzptlk encounters Bat-Mite, shortly after being mistaken for him by Overdog. While in this story, the post-Crisis'' Bat-Mite encounters Batman for the first time, Superman and Batman subsequently concluded that Mxyzptlk had created him, inspired by Overdog's ravings. Bat-Mite also appeared in the 2000 one-shot
Elseworlds comic special ''
World's Funnest, in which he battles Mr. Mxyzptlk, destroying the Pre-Crisis
multiverse and the post-Crisis
DC Universe, as well as the Elseworlds of Kingdom Come, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns'', and the
DC Animated Universe. The first post-
Infinite Crisis appearance of Bat-Mite was in
Batman #672, written by
Grant Morrison. Batman is confronted with Bat-Mite (or "Might") after being shot in the chest and suffering a heart attack. Might, who bears a green insectoid creature on his back, claims to have come from "Space B at the Fivefold Expansion of Zrfff". After Batman transforms himself into "the
Batman of Zur-En-Arrh", Might counsels Zur-En-Arrh, a 'back-up' personality manufactured by Bruce himself to keep Batman able to fight in case he was mindwiped, or driven to insanity.
Batman #680 reveals that Might is a product of Batman's imagination, representing the last vestiges of his rational mind. Bat-Mite appeared in a self-titled six-issue miniseries which lasted from June to November 2015. Bat-Mite appears in the four-part story "Impossible" in ''World's Finest'' #26 through #29, June through September 2024. The story also features Superman, Batman, Robin, Jimmy Olsen and Mr. Mxyzptlk. ==Powers and abilities==