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When exiting a movie theater (opera in some versions), Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered by a mugger in front of their son, Bruce Wayne. This tragedy shocks Gotham and leads to Park Row (the street where it occurred) being labeled Crime Alley. Most importantly, it serves as the motivation for Bruce to become Batman. [5]
Martha Wayne (née Kane) [2] is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.She is the mother of Bruce Wayne (Batman), and wife of Dr. Thomas Wayne as well as the paternal grandmother of Damian Wayne, the fifth Robin.
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 ...
Less than five years later, the first film about Batman was brought to life in 1943's Batman, with Lewis Wilson leading the movie. Now, nine actors have played Batman in movies, and popular ...
Batman had thwarted Sol's plan to flood Gotham with fake money and is blamed for the killings of Bronski and Sol. Reeves demands peace and, over Commissioner Gordon's objections, orders the Police to hunt Batman. Andrea visits her mother's grave. Batman, also drawn to his parents' grave, sees her and flees, but Andrea guesses his secret identity.
In Batman #208 (January/February 1969), it is revealed that both Joe and Max had changed their name to Chill from Chilton and that their mother was the housekeeper to Bruce Wayne's uncle Philip, who became Bruce's primary guardian after his parents' deaths. As Philip was often away on business, Mrs. Chilton played the primary parental role in ...
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The character first appeared in Batman #16 (April 1944), by writer Don Cameron and artist Bob Kane.Evidence suggests that Alfred was created by the writers of the 1943 Batman serial—Victor McLeod, Leslie Swabacker, and Harry Fraser—and that DC Comics asked Don Cameron to write the first Alfred story, which was published prior to the serial's release.