{"id":593,"date":"2019-02-07T08:14:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=593"},"modified":"2019-03-08T00:07:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T08:07:19","slug":"63-the-bat-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/63-the-bat-man\/","title":{"rendered":"63 &#8211; The Bat-Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"485\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-batman-1024x485.png\" alt=\"A panel from the first Batman story in Detective Comics #27, April 1939\" class=\"wp-image-594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-batman-1024x485.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-batman-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-batman-768x363.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the first Batman story in Detective Comics #27, April 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In April 1939, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Kane\">Bob Kane<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Finger\">Bill Finger<\/a>) published the first story about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batman\">The Bat-Man<\/a> in Detective Comics #27, bringing DC what would be its second big hit. Certainly his dramatic appearance had something to do with the character&#8217;s success, but I thought the first story was interesting by keeping him mysterious: He was not given an origin story, he spoke very little, the reader wasn&#8217;t given any insight into his thoughts, and his identity of Bruce Wayne, young socialite, was kept &#8220;secret&#8221; until the last panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yep, Bat-Man mostly spoke with his fists, though he was not the first to use onomatopoeia in his fight scenes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-batman-socks-1024x709.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-batman-socks-1024x709.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-batman-socks-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-batman-socks-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-batman-socks.png 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 1939, Bob Kane (and Bill Finger) published the first story about The Bat-Man in Detective Comics #27, bringing DC what would be its second big hit. Certainly his dramatic appearance had something to do with the character&#8217;s success, but I thought the first story was interesting by keeping him mysterious: He was not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,40,78,56,14,39,235],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-batman","tag-bill-finger","tag-bob-kane","tag-dc","tag-detective-comics","tag-secret-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}