Jay Pinkerton nails the history of Batman
Posted on June 14, 2005
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I haven’t laughed this hard since I accidentally caught my arm in the blender while making mai tai’s: Batman Begins Primer, the definitive Batman chronology.
The premise of Batman has endured to the point of being iconic, so that it’s difficult to step back for a second and realize how incredibly stupid it all is. Even taking into account the time period (the 1930’s, when everything was stupid) and the target market (kids, who have always been stupid), one still has to wonder exactly what Bob Kane was thinking when he gave us the idea of a man dressed in a bat costume who not only fought crime, but was a scientist, a detective, a black belt in karate and - following the addition of Robin to the series in 1940 - a suspected pederast.