Possible Clues:

• Comic/film superhero
• Caped crusader of Gotham City, cartoon or cinema
• Who said 'The joke's on you, Riddler!'
• Bishop having religious soul as attendant
• Comics debut of 1939
• English cartoonist killing off English cartoon character
• Hero with a mask
• Carries war chest perhaps for fly-by-night picking up Joe
• One in attendance when stuffing is knocked out of cricketer?
• Comic superhero