As he grows up, Bruce engages in intense intellectual and physical training. He also travels abroad, training in various martial arts, fields of science, criminology and detective skills.
After returning to Gotham, he realizes that these skills alone would not be enough. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible In the early strips, Batman's career as a vigilante initially earns him the ire of the police.
Wayne takes in an orphaned circus acrobat, Dick Grayson, who becomes his sidekick, Robin. Batman also becomes a founding member of the Justice Society of America, although he, like Superman, is an honorary member and thus only participates occasionally. Batman's relationship with the law thaws quickly, and he is made an honorary member of Gotham City's police department. During this time, butler Alfred arrives at Wayne Manor and after deducing the Dynamic Duo's secret identities joins their service.
After the introduction of DC Comics' multi-verse in the s, it is retroactively established that stories from the Golden Age star the Earth-Two Batman , a character from a parallel world.
This version of Batman partners with and marries the reformed Earth-Two Catwoman , Selina Kyle as shown in Superman Family and fathers Helena Wayne, who, as the Huntress, becomes along with the Earth-Two Robin Gotham's protector once Wayne retires from the position to become police commissioner, a position he occupies until he is killed during one final adventure as Batman.
Batman titles however often ignored that a distinction had been made between the pre-revamp and post-revamp Batmen since unlike The Flash or Green Lantern, Batman comics had been published without interruption through the s and would on occasion make reference to stories from the Golden Age. Nevertheless, details of Batman's history were altered or expanded through the decades. Additions include meetings with a future Superman during his youth, his upbringing by his uncle Philip Wayne introduced in Batman , Jan.
In then-editor Paul Levitz commissioned the Untold Legend of the Batman limited series to thoroughly chronicle Batman's origin and history. Batman meets and regularly works with other heroes during the Silver Age, most notably Superman , whom he began regularly working alongside in a series of team-ups in World's Finest Comics, starting in and continuing through the series' cancellation in Batman and Superman are usually depicted as close friends.
Batman becomes a founding member of the Justice League of America , appearing in its first story in s Brave and the Bold In the s and s, Brave and the Bold became a Batman title, in which Batman teams up with a different DC Universe superhero each month. Additionally, Batman also moves from Wayne Manor into a penthouse apartment atop the Wayne Foundation building in downtown Gotham City, in order to be closer to Gotham City's crime. Batman's adventures also become somewhat darker and more grim during this period, depicting increasingly violent crimes, including the first appearance since the early Golden Age of an insane, murderous Joker , and the arrival of Ra's Al Ghul.
In the s, Dick Grayson becomes Nightwing. In the final issue of Brave and the Bold in , Batman quits the Justice League and forms a new group called the Outsiders. He serves as the team's leader until Batman and the Outsiders 32 and the comic subsequently changed its title.
After the issue limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC Comics rebooted the stories of some major characters in an attempt at updating them for contemporary audiences.
Frank Miller retold Batman's origin in the storyline Year One from Batman , which emphasizes a grittier tone in the character. For example, Gotham's police are mostly corrupt, setting up further need for Batman's existence. While Dick Grayson's past remains much the same, the history of Jason Todd, the second Robin, is altered, turning the boy into the orphan son of a petty crook, who tries to steal the tires from the Batmobile. Also removed is the guardian Phillip Wayne, leaving young Bruce to be raised by Alfred.
Additionally, Batman is no longer a founding member of the Justice League of America, although he becomes leader for a short time of a new incarnation of the team launched in To help fill in the revised back story for Batman following Crisis, DC launched a new Batman title called Legends of the Dark Knight in and has published various miniseries and one-shot stories since then that largely take place during the "Year One" period. Various stories from Jeph Loeb and Matt Wagner also touch upon this era.
Subsequently, Batman takes an even darker, often excessive approach to his crime-fighting. Batman works solo until the decade's close, when Tim Drake becomes the new Robin.
In writers resurrected the Jason Todd character and have pitted him against his former mentor. Many of the major Batman storylines since the s have been inter-title crossovers that run for a number of issues. In , the same year that DC published the "Death of Superman" storyline, the publisher released the "Knightfall" storyline.
In the storyline's first phase, the new villain Bane paralyzes Batman, leading Wayne to ask Azrael to take on the role. After the end of "Knightfall", the storylines split in two directions, following both the Azrael-Batman's adventures, and Bruce Wayne's quest to become Batman once more. The story arcs realign in "KnightsEnd", as Azrael becomes increasingly violent and is defeated by a healed Bruce Wayne.
Wayne hands the Batman mantle to Dick Grayson then Nightwing for an interim period, while Wayne trains to return to his role as Batman. Noteworthy among these changes is that the general populace and the criminal element now considers Batman an urban legend rather than a known force. Similarly, the Waynes' killer is never caught or identified, effectively removing Joe Chill from the new continuity, rendering stories such as "Year Two" non-canon.
While Batman contributes greatly to many of the team's successes, the Justice League is largely uninvolved as Batman and Gotham City face catastrophe in the decade's closing crossover arc.
In 's "Cataclysm" storyline, Gotham City is devastated by an earthquake. Deprived of many of his technological resources, Batman fights to reclaim the city from legions of gangs during 's "No Man's Land. DC's limited series Identity Crisis, reveals that JLA member Zatanna had edited Batman's memories, leading to his deep loss of trust in the rest of the superhero community.
Batman later creates the Brother I satellite surveillance system to watch over the other heroes. Its eventual co-opting by Maxwell Lord is one of the main events that leads o the Infinite Crisis miniseries, which again restructures DC continuity.
At the end of the story arc, Bruce adopts Tim as his son. Batman, along with Superman and Wonder Woman, reforms the Justice League in the new Justice League of America series, and is leading the newest incarnation of the Outsiders. Batman was involved in a battle with Dr. Simon Hurt and the "Black Glove," a criminal organization dedicated to corrupting virtue, as they attempted to destroy Batman and everything for which he stands.
Using a mixture of physical and psychological attacks, the Black Glove tests Batman's resolve, forcing him to temporarily adopt the crazed persona of the "Batman of Zur-En-Arrh. Seemingly defeated, Batman is buried alive by the Black Glove, a group that includes Bruce Wayne's girlfriend, Jezebel Jet, who has betrayed him. With the assistance of Robin and Nightwing, he turns the tables on his foes. In a final confrontation with Dr. Hurt, Batman is caught in a helicopter crash.
The storyline concludes with both Batman's fate and the true identity of Dr. Hurt still up in the air. Hurt himself repeatedly claimed to be Thomas Wayne throughout the story, while Batman apparently believed him to be Mangrove Pierce, a crazed actor. In Final Crisis 6 , Batman confronts Darkseid in the villain's bunker. He states that he will make an exception to his "no firearms" rule and shoots Darkseid using the bullet that killed Orion and hits Darkseid.
As Darkseid dies he fires the Omega Sanction which traps its victim's soul in a series of alternate lives, each worse than the one before it , from his eyes, and hits Batman. Before the Omega Sanction hits Batman he silently says, "Gotcha".
It is unknown if ' Batman knew Darkseid shot the Omega sanction or he knew it was coming and accepted his fate. So, Batman himself is finally standing there to complete that big mythical circle and to have the image of Batman up against the actual personification of evil and now he's got the gun and he's got the bullet. It seemed to me to work. In a fit of desperate rage, Superman attacks Darkseid's bunker, finding Batman's charred corpse within.
The Dark Knight is seemingly dead. However, the Omega Sanction does not kill its victims: instead, it sends their consciousness traveling through parallel worlds, and at the conclusion of Final Crisis, it is made clear that this is the fate that has befallen the still-living Batman, as he watches the passing of Anthro in the distant past. For the most part, Batman's family and friends come to believe that Bruce Wayne is indeed dead.
The only exception to this is Bruce's adopted son Tim Drake , who believes firmly that Bruce is still alive. After having the Robin identity taken from him by Dick Grayson, the new Batman, and giving it to Bruce's son, Damian, Tim takes on the identity of Red Robin , and begins searching the world for signs that Bruce Wayne is still alive.
While searching in Baghdad, Tim finds a wall painting of the Bat emblem that was painted by Bruce upon the passing of Anthro.
Tim realizes that Bruce is not dead, but rather lost in time. Deadman, whose body has also become a Black Lantern, rushes to aid the new Batman and Robin, along with Red Robin against the Gotham villains who have been reanimated as Black Lanterns, as well as their own family members. The skull was briefly reanimated as a Black Lantern, reconstructing a body in the process by Black Hand's lord, Nekron, to move against the Justice League and the Titans. After the Black Lantern Batman created several black power rings to attach to and kill the majority of the Justice League, the skull was returned to normal after Nekron explained it served its purpose as an emotional tether.
Nekron also referred to the skull as "Bruce Wayne", knowing that the body was not authentic. In Batman and Robin's third storyline, "Blackest Knight," it is revealed that the body left behind at the end of Final Crisis 6 was actually a clone created from a failed attempt by Darkseid to amass an army of Batmen. Because of this, the skull that was used by the Black Lantern Corps and reanimated by Nekron was a fake.
Dick Grayson, thinking it was Bruce Wayne's real body, attempted to resurrect it in a Lazarus Pit only to be met with a fierce, mindless combatant. He then realized the truth about the body. It is revealed in the Final Crisis that Bruce Wayne is not dead, but in fact, lost in time and amnesiac.
Maintaining a presence in Gotham, Bruce would be sent He appeared in the Paleolithic era, the Puritan witch-hunting era, the 17 century, the Wild West days, the years he grew up in, and finally the far future.
During these travels, Bruce fights an early Vandal Savage , investigates a murder under the guise of a witch-hunter, fights the dreaded pirate Blackbeard , and arranged the meeting of his ancestors Alan Wayne and Catherin Van Derm. During these encounters, Bruce was chased by Darkseid's Hyper-Adapter , which had be sent following him as a fallback plan to wipe out the present day Earth. After an encounter with the Black Glove in the days following his parents' murder, Bruce gained access to Professor Carter Nichols ' time machine and used it to travel to the End of the Universe.
Upon arrival, Bruce's memories returned to him, during which he realized Darkseid had simply used his Omega Beams to banish him through time intentionally. Each time jump built up Omega Energy that would have destroyed Earth when he returned to the present day. Merging with both the Hyper-Adapter and the robotic Architects , he returns within the Time Bubble so that the Justice League can remove the creature and throw it into the time stream. To remove the Omega Energy, Bruce goes into a medically induced coma.
So I'm guessing he became Batman somewhere about I'm not quite sure but his training years overseas did took about 7 years. And 30 is a bit old I think many believe this to be too young and unrealistic , so that's why in the movie he's in his 20's during his training. You'll see a balloon decoration with the number 30 in the background. Then you can make your assumptions from there. Yeah, I've heard of the left-atfor-ten-years statements.
Makes more sense than the "he started his training at 8" idiocy I"m hearing in here. At least post crisis. I am vengeance. I am the night. At what age did Bruce become Batman? In Batman Vol. Powers International set out to create a new Batman and offered the position to Jim Gordon, who eventually accepted, taking on Batman's role, using robot-armor.
When Batman proved to be alive thanks to the Lazarus Pit , Gordon stepped down. Batman gained powers, but with it came a great price, and he became very violent in his war on crime. Superman always wanted a normal life, which is why he lost his powers. Superman received specialized Bat-armor from Alfred to use to keep fighting criminals. Shawn S. Lealos is a freelance writer who received his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in Film Studies.
He has worked as a journalist for 25 years, starting in newspapers and magazines before moving to online media as the world changed. Shawn is also a published author, with a non-fiction book about the Stephen King Dollar Baby Filmmakers and has begun work on a new fiction series as well.
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