This month marks the 80th anniversary of the first Batman story ever. And thanks to only a skosh of numerical manipulation on the part of DC Comics, this week also marks the publication of the 1,000th issue of Detective Comics, the still-going series in which that 1939 story debuted. This all means that it’s a pretty good time for Polygon’s resident Batman expert, me. I talk about Batman a lot, professionally. The character is a deeply personal subject for me, a fantastical fiction that I am unashamed to say is a fundamental pillar of who I am. For his 80th birthday, there was only one Batman creator I wanted to talk to. And that’s Devin Grayson, the only woman to have been a lead writer on a core Batman title, ever. Picture me: a tiny nerd, in early college in the mid-aughts. I had decided to study writing in order to write superhero comics for a living, in full knowledge that finding people in academia who respected comics would probably be hard, and finding people in the comics world who respected women writers would probably be even harder. Many women have written superhero comics — many of them decades and…