attributive superheroic dissonance

In an effort to forget that I'm getting nowhere on MainFictionThing this morning, I've spent an inordinate amount of time leafing through several of the attempts past to bring superheroes to prose – Craig Shaw Gardener's THE BATMAN MURDERS, short story collections – THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF BATMAN, DICK TRACY: THE SECRET FILES –, Andrew Vachss's BATMAN: THE ULTIMATE EVIL, an old MARVEL SUPERHEROES collection, etc etc – and I can't shake the oddity of seeing "Batman said..." in prose: there's a cognitive dissonance – in spite of being an avid fan of the old Shadow pulps where "The Shadow said" runs adverbly rampant – that I find irreconcilable (though the TRACY stories are a little easier since those are, excepting the villains, named with – for lack of a better phrase – real names, no matter the quality of the story); even Morrison's prose/comics mixture in the oft-and-unfairly-maligned BATMAN 663 (which I happen to love) jars me a bit.

Wondering: Is it because I'm so used to seeing others' interpretation of the character that I find it impossible, through a particular lacking of my own imagination, to picture the character as I see him? Is it the codename thing that just feels weird?

Can't recall if I had the same sensation with the few STAR TREK or STAR WARS novels/novelizations I've read (though I do recall enjoying Peter David's TREK novels quite a bit); might have been easier since there's really only one visual interpretation of Picard or whomever. And, like Dick Tracy, it's not a codename but a real name...

I still haven’t gotten anywhere with MainFictionThing.