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In case you’ve found yourself responding to rumors that Christopher Nolan will end his Batman trilogy by bringing about the death of Bruce Wayne with a sense of “It’s Batman; they wouldn’t dare to kill off Batman,” then I have some bad news for you: They would. Even worse, they already have. The character’s comic incarnation has died nine different times, in fact, with another two near-misses thrown in for good measure. Should we be looking to the funnybooks for clues on how The Dark Knight Rises will end?
We probably shouldn’t be so surprised that Batman has met his maker so many times. After all, he’s been facing certain death on a regular basis for more than eight decades since his debut in the pages of Detective Comics #27, so it was only a matter of time before he came to some kind of sticky end. Luckily, as you would expect of a man who hangs out with aliens and Amazon princesses for a living, almost all of the ends have turned out to merely temporary. Take, for example, Batman’s first death, which happened all the way back in 1952′s Batman #72: That demise was self-inflicted—Bruce Wayne poisoned himself to gain admission to an exclusive club that only let in those who had been (wrongfully) declared legally dead so that he could solve a series of murders within their ranks. Thankfully there was little worry that Batman would actually stay dead; not only was Wayne’s apparent suicide debunked at the very start of the story, but the story itself was called “The Death-Cheaters of Gotham City!”
Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/0...#ixzz20Nnf99J0
We probably shouldn’t be so surprised that Batman has met his maker so many times. After all, he’s been facing certain death on a regular basis for more than eight decades since his debut in the pages of Detective Comics #27, so it was only a matter of time before he came to some kind of sticky end. Luckily, as you would expect of a man who hangs out with aliens and Amazon princesses for a living, almost all of the ends have turned out to merely temporary. Take, for example, Batman’s first death, which happened all the way back in 1952′s Batman #72: That demise was self-inflicted—Bruce Wayne poisoned himself to gain admission to an exclusive club that only let in those who had been (wrongfully) declared legally dead so that he could solve a series of murders within their ranks. Thankfully there was little worry that Batman would actually stay dead; not only was Wayne’s apparent suicide debunked at the very start of the story, but the story itself was called “The Death-Cheaters of Gotham City!”
Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/0...#ixzz20Nnf99J0
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