All of this produced the handsome, morose man we encounter at the very beginning of "Batman Begins, " when Bruce Wayne, wandering the mountains of Asia in search of wisdom, is approached and temporarily seduced by a vigilante group called the League of Shadows.
By holding back from TV and concert appearances, the group and its management went against the industry-accepted wisdom that you can only hold fans' attention by plying them with nonstop appearances and regularly dispensed songs.