Superhero Costumes

From Batman to Superman, all our superhero costumes are contained within this department. Check out the latest Batman & The Brave or new arrivals Spiderman Deluxe Muscle Chest.

A superhero's costume was intended to make him or her recognizable to the general public. Costumes are often colorful to enhance the character's visual appeal and frequently incorporate the superhero's name and theme. For example, Captain America's costume echoes the American flag, Batman resembles a large bat, and Spider Man's costume features a spider web pattern. The convention of superheroes wearing masks and skintight unitards originated with the comic strip hero The Phamtom .Wearing pants over their unitards was often satirized as the idea that superheroes wear their underpants on the outside.

Superheroes were not restricted just to the male variant, starting in the late 1950s, DC introduced Supergirl, Batwoman and later Batgirl who eventually became Oracle. In American comics, superheroines often sport improbably large breasts and an illogical lack of muscle-mass, and their costumes sexualise their wearers almost as a matter of course. This visual treatment of women in American comics has lead to accusations of systemic sexism as time has gone on, costumes becoming more and more erotic.

Superheroes have spawned from their original comic book starts countless movies and TV series, in the 1940s movie serials were aimed at children at the ‘Saturday Morning’ cinema shows, these declined and not until 1978 when Superman returned to the ‘big screen’ did they appeal to the public once again. Telelvsion has had a number of superheroes in the 60’s, Batman starring Adam West and Burt Ward as Robin, these followed by Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk in the 70’s and 80’s and the hugely popular Mighty Morpin Power Rangers and Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the 90s.

From all of these characters and more, Superhero Fancy Dress costumes have developed into a huge success at Fancy Dress Parties allowing you to recreate your favourite character with exact replicas costumes worn on screen. Here at Fancy Dress Ball our Superhero Costume range in both our ladies superhero costumes and mens superhero costume categories are bound to provide you with that fancy dress costume of choice. Why not team up with matching superhero costumes, Mr and Mrs Incredible, Batman and Robin or something a liitle bit different Danger Mouse and Penfold.

Complete the costumes by adding fancy dress accessories for our ever expanding range of items, from wigs,  make up and face paint , shoes, hats and masks and for the ladies a choice from our underwear and  hosiery fancy dress accessories.

All this, coupled with our 14 day no quibble money back guarantee, If you don’t like your purchase for any reason, simply return it to us within 14 days. We’ll ship you and alternative, or process a refund upon receipt of the goods back, giving you piece of mind when selecting that fancy dress costume to make you stand out from the crowd.

Have a great party.