Batman's first appearance, 1939.
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Created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, Batman makes his first appearance in issue 27 of Detective Comics in 1939. As a child, Bruce Wayne, heir to an industrialist fortune, witnesses the murder of his parents. Obsessed with avenging their deaths, he trains himself to become a physical and intellectual Super-Human (as with Doc Savage), an excellent detective, and dedicates his life to fighting crime. Aided by his butler, Alfred, and his ward, Dick Grayson (the original Robin), Batman operates out of Gotham City. Bill Finger said, "Batman was originally written in the style of the pulps." Batman is a comic book version of a pulp hero such as The Shadow, rooted in the tough, noir tradition. The Batman stories were a hit, with sales of Detective Comics selling to the point that the character was assigned his own title in 1940.
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