We fabricated the cowl ourselves.
But now the cowl is a fun variation on the familiar scarf.
We had to angle-grind off the top, yank out the spigot and replace the cowl.
John Galliano used a broken collapsible umbrella as the cowl for a raincoat.
And the blackness inside the cowl is mirrored by the empty sockets of the skull staring up at him.
Snyder said: "The character we're putting under the cowl never expected it, never saw it coming and never set out to be Batman.
In Batgirl No. 1 the writer Gail Simone and the artist Ardian Syaf devise an engrossing story about Barbara's return to the cowl.
"He might not be under the cowl when the story starts but his presence will be a big part of the story and shape it," he said.
"It's good to be a good teammate and take care of each other," said Joe Valenzano, the former sports editor of The Cowl, the student newspaper.
In 2008's Batman RIP, former Robin Dick Grayson briefly wore the cowl after his one-time mentor appeared to have been killed.
