#untold legend of the batman

[comicbookbrain]

Batgirl - Jim Aparo art

Untold Legend of Batman #3, Sept 1980, DC Comics

#batgirl #jim aparo #untold legend of Batman

[cantsayidont]

April-May 1943. In the modern Batman comics and most modern Batman media, Bruce Wayne grew up with butler Alfred Pennyworth, who became his surrogate father, but originally, Alfred arrived well after Bruce was an adult. In his first appearance in BATMAN #16 (above), Alfred was a former English musical hall comedy actor whose father Jarvis had once been the Wayne butler. Arriving in America, Alfred essentially bluffs and browbeats Bruce into giving him a job. Before Bruce can send him away, Alfred, who fancies himself an amateur detective, accidentally stumbles upon the entrance to the Batcave, just as Dick had feared. Later:

Alfred was probably loosely modeled on, and certainly inspired by, Arthur Treacher, an English actor who had been a music hall star before finding his niche in movies as the quintessential English butler, playing P.G. Wodehouse's immortal Jeeves and various other butler roles. In DETECTIVE COMICS #83, Alfred spends his vacation "at a health resort, cultivatin' a new figure," returning in his now-familiar skinny, mustached form, which was modeled on William Austin, the actor who played Alfred in the 1943 BATMAN serial.

In 1957, a story in BATMAN #110 presented a new version of how Alfred was originally hired:

Note that in this version, Alfred already has his more familiar appearance when he's first hired; the original version was later attributed to Earth-2. (As this story eventually reveals, "Noyes" is actually Bruce Wayne in disguise, testing if Alfred can be trusted.)

The 1980 miniseries THE UNTOLD LEGEND OF THE BATMAN, intended as the definitive Bronze Age account of Batman's origins, presents a hybrid version of these two stories, referencing Alfred's previous music hall career and Jarvis Pennyworth having previously worked for the Wayne family, but retaining the 1957 story's version of how Alfred learned his employers' secret. (I think that's too bad, as the original version with Alfred stumbling onto the secret by accident and then pretending to have deduced it is really very funny, but by 1980, Alfred was no longer being treated as comic relief.)

From whence the idea that Alfred raised Bruce? For that you may thank Frank Miller, as first seen in THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS in 1986 and then incorporated into "Batman: Year One" in BATMAN #404–407.

In any case, when reading older appearances of Alfred, including his apparent demise in 1964 and his ludicrous resurrection in 1966, it bears keeping in mind that he's really just Bruce and Dick's employee, and is absolutely, unquestionably not getting paid enough.

#comics #batman #don cameron #bob kane #jerry robinson #george roussos #bill finger #sheldon moldoff #stan kaye #bruce wayne #robin #robin the boy wonder #dick grayson #alfred pennyworth #alfred beagle #arthur treacher #the untold legend of the batman #frank miller

[all-action-all-picture]

A 1980 ad for the three issue limited series The Untold Legend of the Batman. Written by Len Wein with John Byrne pencilling the first issue only. Jim Aparo pencilled No. 2 and 3 and inked all three.

#1980 #24apr #22may #26jun #batman #john byrne #the untold legend of the batman #dc #dc comics #len wein #jim aparo

[momachan]

Batman Allies: Alfred Pennyworth. The untold legend of The Batman (Batman 1940 - 2011)

#dc comics #the untold legend of the batman #batman #bruce wayne #robin #dick grayson #alfred pennyworth #batman allies

[celaenaeiln]

How did Gotham high society react to Bruce adopting Dick? Because I rmbr about the ask with his school mates liking him, and some even having a crush on him, and I wonder how the high society Gotham treated/reacted to Dick and him being adopted.

They really just loved him!

Untold Legend of Batman Issue #2

Dick of course hated it but Gotham loved him.

He was pretty, charming, and sweet. He knew how to play the game and fit in so they loved him.

Robin: Year One Issue #1

They weren't unaware of Dick's origins though

Batman and Robin Eternal Issue #6

They just didn't care. Not when it came to him. I can't remember who it was but I'm pretty sure someone said canonically that Dick's superpower is Glamour because his beauty's so beguiling/enticing. The power of attraction. So nope, Gotham Society didn't mind at all! They welcomed him with open arms.

#dick grayson #robin dick grayson #bruce wayne #batman #cl anon asks #thanks for the ask!

[omniversecomicsguide]

Read the untold tale of Batgirl and Robin’s first official team-up in issue 9 of Batman Chronicles. There are more plenty more post-Crisis/pre-Legends Bat stories to explore in our two-part BATMAN ORIGINS READING ORDER!

Featured art:

BATMAN CHRONICLES #9 (1997)

by Hugh Fleming

#batman #batgirl #hugh fleming #dc comics #batman reading order #mr freeze #poison ivy

[northoftheroad]

You know when people push back on fanon so hard they invent a new kind of not-canon? Like when people say Robin!Dick was a feral insane gremlin maniac who ate steel instead of doing homework and Jason/whoever else was an angel who wanted to go to college. It's crazy since Robin!Dick was characterized as SO well-behaved that he was advertised as a role model to the readership with the "Robin's Regulars" stuff. And he was super excited about college until NTT retconned it so he could be a titan.

I know! I completely agree. It's the "backtrack on fanon so far you come out on the other end" movement.

Batman vol 1 # 202

Batman vol 1 # 250

To be fair, Dick has been written quite differently over the decades, so sometimes it's hard to reconcile Dick of the Golden and Silver age with DickRobin from later periods. (That goes almost double for Jason, since he got two very different origin stories less than five years apart.) But I find Dick the feral Robin who wanted VEANGEANCE and to kill Zucco very, very exaggerated. Newly orphaned Dick is hardly (if) ever written as outright wanting to kill Zucco; his primary concern is to help prevent more kids from losing their parents. If he wants Zucco to "pay", it means brought to justice – and for the first decades of Batman comics, Zucco was condemned for murder and sent to the electric chair. It's not the same as "wanting to kill Zucco".

Detective Comics # 38

The Untold Legend of the Batman # 2

Batman Year Three / Batman vol 1 # 437

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight # 100

Robin 80th Anniversary

#Dick Grayson #Robin #Batman #Nightwing #fanon versus canon #fanon vs canon

[nyhti]

The Untold Legend of the Batman #2

#bruce wayne #alfred pennyworth

[nfcomics]

GOTHAM CITY YEAR ONE no.1 • cover art • Ryan Sook [Oct 2022]

There once was a shining city on the water, a home for families, hope, and prosperity. It was Gotham and it was glorious. The story of its fall from grace, the legend that would birth the Bat, has remained untold for 80 years. That’s about to change. Superstar creators Tom King and Phil Hester team up for the first time to tell the definitive origin of Gotham City: how it became the cesspool of violence and corruption it is today, and how it harbored and then unleashed the sin that led to the rise of the Dark Knight. Two generations before Batman, private investigator Slam Bradley gets tangled in the "kidnapping of the century" as the infant Wayne heir disappears in the night...and so begins a brutal, hard-boiled, epic tale of a man living on the edge and a city about to burn.

(W) Tom King (A) Phil Hester, Eric Gapstur (CA) Ryan Sook

#Gotham City Year One no.1 #Ryan Sook #Tom King #Phil Hester #Eric Gapstur #Slam Bradley #Batman #Bruce Wayne #Wayne Family #Gotham #Gotham City #Gotham City Year One

[spite-and-waffles]

batman not differentiating between law and justice?

clearly you haven't read the untold legend of the batman

Read Hiketeia. And also the story where he saves the Joker from finally being executed because he was being framed.

And don't bring this garbage in my inbox. Go stan your favourite child abuser on your own blog.

#asks #anon #anti Bruce Wayne #I'm not back I just logged onto to follow a link and unfortunately checked notifs

[jeeperso]

Bat-Headcanon

So, let’s talk about Alfred

As with a few people on our beloved hellsite, I dislike the idea that Alfred was this ‘badass’ MI-5 superspy before becoming the Butler to the Waynes.

However, I also recognize this can offer potential story beats, such as being the one to patch up Master Bruce in the wake of his more harrowing adventures. That, and I have a soft spot for 1980′s Untold Legend of The Batman, where he was part of the French resistance in WW2, when that was still something plausible for an older man in comics like himself

My solution/headcanon is that if he was in government/military service, his primary duty in the field was as the medic. 

#batman #alfred pennyworth #headcanon #dc comics

[comicbookbrain]

The three-issue Untold Legends of Batman series from 1980

Cover art by Jose Luis Garcia and Dick Giordano

#jose luis garcia lopez #Dick Giordano #Batman #untold legends of Batman

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

do u have any comic book sujecttions that mostly scenter scarecrow? i cant find that many. (preferably one that are like self contained in one or two books bc I'm so bad at fineshing sets)

Scarecrow: Year One (two issues)

Batman Annual 19

Batman Adventures Annual (Study Hall)

Batman/Scarecrow 3D

Joker’s Asylum: Scarecrow

Detective Comics 571

Batman 523-524

Untold Tales of the Blackest Knight “Sea of Fear”

Batman ‘66 #28 (’66 Origin)

Batman #189

Batman #373

Batman #457

Detective Comics #486

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #138

Batman Detective Comics #835-836

Worlds Finest 3 (first appearance)

Hope this helps! Most of these are one issue stories, with the exception of a few two issue comics.

#MistressAnswersYourLastWords #comic recs

[goldlightwriting]

doesn't Pokemon XY and League of Legends ruination have the same backstory. expect AZ already went through his Floette rejecting him for what he did. with it explained that to bring Floette back he had ti build a device that sucked the lifeforce out of all living beings inn the vicinity

I mean, AZ and Viego are both examples of a trope. I don't remember what that trope is called off the top of my head, so let's just call it the 'Grieving Villain.' It's when the antagonist is driven by a desire to bring a loved one back to life, often to the expense of everyone and everything else, against that loved one's wishes.

Other examples include Charmcaster from Ben 10 who sacrificed a bunch of souls to revive her deceased father, as well as Strange Supreme from Marvel's What If who broke time to try and save Christine. Mister Freeze from Batman is also an example, since his only desire is to save his wife even if he has to turn to a life of crime to do it.

These are villains who are evil not necessarily because their motivations are bad, but rather because they can and will do untold damage in the process of pursuing it. Villains like this are kinda tricky to do right because they've effectively lost before they even truly begin; as stated before and with all the examples, the person that they save rejects the evils the villain does to try and save them, often rendering the whole thing moot.

This is the primary reason why Viego fails as an antagonist in Sentinels; Isolde was never going to accept the Ruined King and rule at his side, so the race to stop him from resurrecting her is utterly pointless. The focus should have been around stopping the spread of the Black Mist, but for as much as they play it up in the story, Runeterra hardly seems any worse for wear after the literal army of the undead ran rampant across the world.

Mind you, AZ and the story of XY have their own issues, but I'd certainly say that he and Floette execute the concept much better.

#konradlejion #Pokemon #League of Legends #Ben 10 #What If #Batman

[momachan]

Batman Allies: Alfred Pennyworth. The untold legend of The Batman (Batman 1940 - 2011).

#dc comics #the untold legend of the batman #batman #bruce wayne #robin #dick grayson #alfred pennyworth #batman allies

[comic-art-showcase]

Robin and Nightwing by George Caltsoudas

The Untold Legend Of The Batman #2 homage

#george caltsoudas #robin #nightwing #the joker #batober #dc