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Back in 1992 Nike created a special pair of Nike Air Jordan VI footwear for the Dark Knight as the unique design seemed to match Batman’s suit. Of course, the Nike Air Jordan VI Batman never released, though it is one of the coolest artifacts in Nike’s history. PH23Customs recently completed a custom pair of Nike Air Jordan VI s with the Dark Knight in mind using the Nike Air Jordan VI Oreo as the base, PH23 blacked out the white leather upper and astutely colored a few sections with a dark navy blue, like the Jumpman on the tongue, the midsole, and the stripe on the spoiler on the heel.

Sneakerhead culture is wrought with simulacra and symbolic appropriation, this latest Nike SB custom something like the inverse of the most recent one we would seen. Whereas jwiz had taken the forgotten SF Muni thin-tongued Nike Dunk Low SB and made it into something closer to the Un-Supreme Nike SB Dunk Mid that just released. Cemeterydrive has gone the other direction and made the Stealth, black and Dragon Red design less ‘Un-’ and more Supreme-ish thanks to a run of Elephant Print markings on the tumbled leather overlay. Regular NewKicksOnTheBlog readers will remember this guy as the same who Elephent’d the Chromeball Incident Lows last summer. Which pair turned out better?

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