Gotham city's Dark Knight, Batman has vanquished his comic book rivals Spider-man and Superman to be named the greatest superhero of all time in a new poll.

Mirror.co.uk reports, the Caped Crusader, who has been fighting crime in comics, on TV and in numerous film adaptations since 1939, beat Peter Parker's arachnid alter-ego to second place in the survey by SFX.co.uk.