What got you into Batman?

[Mistah K88]

Hello all, I'm sure this has been done before somewhere but I'm still a newbie compared to you guys and it will be a good opportunity to get to know where the Batman love came from. Is it different from your first time encountering the Bat?

We all started somewhere when it came to being comic fans, and I don't think there are too many of us here who witnessed Batman's creation, so what would you say interested you in the character enough to start buying/collecting comics. Heck I would say that a lot of people experienced these icons from media other than comics as children (at least prior to learning how to read).

I wasn't truly a fan until I started watching Batman: The Animated Series on Fox Kids every afternoon in the 90's. Even though I still watched the 60's Adam West show religiously (you'd be surprised on how many old shows they re-ran in the 90's), it still was BTAS that had me become a Batman addict, and I have been one for about 25 years and counting. In fact, I would say that BTAS, introduced me to Batman, and through Batman comics, my interest in comics expanded from there.


What was your first Bat experience? What got you into Batman? Were you into comics prior to getting into Batman specifically, or was he your genesis?

I will return...same Bat time, same Bat channel...

[Assam]

While I can't remember a time where I didn't know who Batman was, my first exposure to the character in a piece of media was in Brave and the Bold #28, the first appearance of the Justice League.

I was reading comics before this though. Really, my dad and brother initially had to force me to read stories about any of the present day DCU characters, since at the time (I was 4) all I wanted to do was just read more and more about the Legion of Superheroes.

[godisawesome]

I watched BTAS as a kid, and then my family's recorded copy of Batman Returns.

My interest then exploded when I got access to the Internet and started reading some of those late 1990's fan sites involving biographies of three Robins.

[TheCape]

Believe it or not, the Adam West series, we wacth a lot re runs in my country . Little by little i met him in his mor "classic" incarnations from the 90s and 2000s animated series, to eventually reading a good chunk of his comic story and here i am.

[MajorHoy]

Believe it or not, the Adam West series, we wacth a lot re runs in my country . Little by little i met him in his mor "classic" incarnations from the 90s and 2000s animated series, to eventually reading a good chunk of his comic story and here i am.

I was probably first interested in Batman because of the TV show with Adam West, but I was watching it when it originally aired in the mid-1960s ("Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel", which in my case was Channel 7, WABC-TV out of New York City). I even wore one of those store-bought Batman Halloween costumes for trick-or-treating when I was in first grade.

[Phoenyxx1481]

When I was a kid, my brothers and I would watch the TV show from the West days as well as the movie. (We taped the movie and watched it liked kids do their disney movies these days.) Shortly after the 89 movie came out, which we all loved. (I think the Superfreinds was also on in syndication too.) One brother started collecting a few comics here and there, which I would sneak and read. A few years later BTAS came out and that hooked me on a modern times Batman. I started getting into Batman comics around the time Hush came out.

[ChaosIncarnate]

Definitely the animated series for me. Didn't start reading the comics til Dick Grayson was Batman, which was an amazing period that should have lasted longer.

[Starter Set]

First : TV, 60's show

Fan : 89 Burton's movie

I did enjoy the old show and watched quite a bit of it when i was something around 8/10 but well, i was maybe a bit too young to really appreciate the second degree, the humor of the show. But concerning the movie, man, that was a huge phenomena back then.

Like real huge.

[JasonTodd428]

My first exposure to the character came through an old comic that once belonged to an uncle of mine that I found in a box of his in my grandparents attic. It was Batman #156: Robin Dies at Dawn. From that moment on I was a fan. My first media exposure was Batman '66 reruns. It was some years later that I started collecting comics seriously and at that time I was very much a Marvel fan. I had one single DC pull back then and it was Batman.

[Batmaniac]

Batman: The Animated Series.

[Osiris-Rex]

Probably the comic books we kids used to trade back and forth, some of which had Batman in them. Also later on the TV show got me interested in Catwoman.

[millernumber1]

I think it was mostly because of the 66 show - not that I ever watched it even in reruns, but I think I watched some taped episodes as a kid, and I read a kids book clearly based on the 66 version. I didn't watch any of the 90s films - I first got into the comics during NML and Bruce Wayne: Murderer?

[The Whovian]

I can't remember the exact moment when I became a Batman fan, but it was after COIE, but watching the movies from 1989 and the 90's plus BTAS.

[Rogue Star]

Hello all, I'm sure this has been done before somewhere but I'm still a newbie compared to you guys and it will be a good opportunity to get to know where the Batman love came from. Is it different from your first time encountering the Bat?

We all started somewhere when it came to being comic fans, and I don't think there are too many of us here who witnessed Batman's creation, so what would you say interested you in the character enough to start buying/collecting comics. Heck I would say that a lot of people experienced these icons from media other than comics as children (at least prior to learning how to read).

I wasn't truly a fan until I started watching Batman: The Animated Series on Fox Kids every afternoon in the 90's. Even though I still watched the 60's Adam West show religiously (you'd be surprised on how many old shows they re-ran in the 90's), it still was BTAS that had me become a Batman addict, and I have been one for about 25 years and counting. In fact, I would say that BTAS, introduced me to Batman, and through Batman comics, my interest in comics expanded from there.


What was your first Bat experience? What got you into Batman? Were you into comics prior to getting into Batman specifically, or was he your genesis?

I will return...same Bat time, same Bat channel...

I was 19 years old, in the Navy training at a school for my job, and I picked up Batgirl #1 (Cassandra Cain). My life was forever changed. My love for Rogue built up over time. With Cass it was instant. I like watching Batman movies and cartoons. I enjoyed TAS and Batman Beyond immensely, but when it comes to comics I only read Detective Comics for Cassandra Cain. So I'm a fan of Batman but I wouldn't keep up with him if the best Batgirl ever hadn't entered the picture.

[Barbatos666]

BTAS and Burton films.