The Batman Contemplating
Batman was obsessive about collecting trophies from crime scenes. He actually kept a trophy room that held several articles, some claim that there are upwards of a thousand trophies inside the Batcave. The trophies ranged from a giant penny to a full size mechanical dinosaur. The trophy collection figures so extensively in the Batman legend that even fans and writers get confused.
Such was the case with the giant penny, most contribute it to a villain named Penny Plunderer in an issue that came out in 1947, yet, in Batman the Animated Series, Batman gains the penny from the villain Two-Face. The penny shows up again when Aquaman and Batman attempt to move it after it had fallen over in the Batcave during an earthquake. This trophy collecting that the writers kept writing in the series, really got out of hand, because between 1939 and 1950 there was a total of 964 trophies written into the series and ultimately into the Batcave collection.
Batman hides his Secrets Well
Bob Kane is credited with creating the original Batman, but there was a man named Bill Finger who went to work for Kane in 1938. Bill was an aspiring writer and a part-time shoe salesman. Kane showed Bill his concept for the superhero Batman and Bill later described the drawing as a picture of Superman with reddish tights. Finger offered suggestions such as giving the character a cowl and a scalloped cape instead of Kane’s roughly drawn stiff bat-like wings.
Finger suggested leaving the eye holes on the mask blank to add a bit of mystery, to give the character black gloves and to change the bright red sections of Kane’s original costume and add black and gray instead. Finger also claims he devised the character’s real name of “Bruce Wayne” and wrote the first Batman story while Bob Kane created the artwork. Although officially Bob Kane is given the credit for creating Batman it was Bill Finger who was the man in the shadows when it was all going down.
Batman was married once. In the graphic novel Son of Demon, Ra’s al Ghul gets Batman to help him track down the killer of his wife. During the story line Batman marries Tal al Ghul and she becomes pregnant. What happened to the baby? The writers haven’t really elaborated on this. Interesting point as well, Ra’s al Ghul is one of the people who knows that Batman is actually Bruce Wayne.
