Bruce's wilderness years and Joker

[CTTT]

have they ever been expanded upon? The 7 years that he spent away from Gotham? And in New52 how did Joker's face get so screwed up?

[Restingvoice]

In New 52 the Zero Year back up stories of Batman tell that, starting at Bruce age 19 learning how to drive awesome, plus the last training in Detective Comics #0.

In Post Crisis... I'll leave it to the seniors.

How Joker's face got screwed up is in New 52 Detective Comics Vol. 1 Faces of Death.

[CTTT]

That would be the seniors of Gotham and Smallville High?

[Restingvoice]

That would be the seniors of Gotham and Smallville High?

Oh no ^^ I meant people who know more than me on this forum

[bob.schoonover]

have they ever been expanded upon? The 7 years that he spent away from Gotham? And in New52 how did Joker's face get so screwed up?

A little bit in The Many Deaths of Batman - it's a three parter from around Death in the Family about someone going around killing all the people that trained Bruce. I'm sure I'm missing some stories, but that's the only one I can think of in which Bruce's training is particularly central.

[Somecrazyaussie]

Post-Crisis expanded upon his travels quite extensively. Each #0 issue they did for the Batman titles for Zero-Hour showed Bruce during different stages leading up to his return to Gotham. Then there were the "Year One" annuals they did. Shaman from LoTDK did as well.