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The central fixed event in the Batman stories is the character's origin story. [32] As a young boy, Bruce Wayne was horrified and traumatized when he watched his parents, the physician Dr. Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, murdered with a gun by a mugger named Joe Chill. Batman refuses to utilize any sort of gun on the principle that a gun was ...
Media scholars Roberta Pearson and William Uricchio, in their 1991 work The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media, also noted beyond the origin story and such events as the introduction of Robin, "Until recently, the fixed and accruing and hence, canonized, events have been few in number", [3] a situation altered by an increased effort by later Batman ...
In the late 1950s, Batman stories gradually became more science fiction-oriented, an attempt at mimicking the success of other DC characters that had dabbled in the genre. [40] New characters such as Batwoman, the original Bat-Girl, Ace the Bat-Hound, and Bat-Mite were introduced. Batman's adventures often involved odd transformations or ...
Batman Begins is a 2005 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Nolan and David S. Goyer.Based on the DC Comics character Batman, it stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman, with Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, and Morgan Freeman in supporting roles.
Bob Kane — concept, creator and artist. Co-created several secondary characters including junior partner/protege Dick Grayson/Robin, Alfred Pennyworth (as Alfred Beagle), Jim Gordon, the Joker, Selina Kyle/Catwoman, the Penguin, Two-Face, Mr. Freeze (as Mr. Zero), Scarecrow, Basil Karlo/Clayface, Mad Hatter, Hugo Strange, Deadshot, Cavalier, The Monk, gangsters Sal Maroni, Tony Zucco, and ...
The first Batman story - and the first comic book story - ever to be created digitally. ISBN 978-0-930289-87-4 [304] Batman: Full Circle: 1991 The sequel to Batman: Year Two (see Modern Batman below). [305] Batman: Holy Terror: Published under the Elseworlds logo. The first Elseworlds story ever to have the imprint's logo on the cover. [306]
Jack Schiff (1909 [1] – April 30, 1999) [2] was an American comic book writer and editor best known for his work editing various Batman comic book series for DC Comics from 1942 to 1964. He was the co-creator of Starman , Tommy Tomorrow , and the Wyoming Kid .
"The Man Who Falls" uses parts of Year One, Blind Justice and the first arc of Legends of the Dark Knight (Shaman) as part of the story. All these make up the training and first months of Batman's career. Later stories by Matt Wagner, Batman and the Monster Men and Batman and the Mad Monk, depict the emergence of Batman as a major presence in ...