About the Bill Finger Batman killing...

[returntovoid]

I just read the Batman feature in Time Out Dubai magazine, and it said something about why the Bill Finger Batman killed criminals in the 1930s comic books.

Here's what it said:

"These guys span out of the depression-era pulp magazines and street gangs of the 30s. Back then, justice was swift and uncompromising, so in their early years you'd have Batman throwing people out of windows to their deaths"

 

[El Payaso]

I just read the Batman feature in Time Out Dubai magazine, and it said something about why the Bob Kane Batman killed in the 1930s comic books.

Here's what it said.

"These guys span out of the depression-era pulp magazines and street gangs of the 30s. Back then, justice was swift and uncompromising, so in their early years you'd have Batman throwing people out of windows to their deaths"

This is the 1989 movie Batman.

 

[ultimatefan]

One of the big inspirations for Batman was The Shadow, who was a pretty ruthless vigilante that used two automatic weapons. But in his case, that aspect was abandoned pretty quickly. After a year or so of his near 70-year history, Batman wasn´t killing anymore.

 

[returntovoid]

One of the big inspirations for Batman was The Shadow, who was a pretty ruthless vigilante that used two automatic weapons. But in his case, that aspect was abandoned pretty quickly. After a year or so of his near 70-year history, Batman wasn´t killing anymore.

I just checked out the wikipedia page for The Shadow. Bill Finger stated that Batman is highly influenced by The Shadow. The influence of The Shadow was evident when Batman killed criminals in the 30s comic books but later in 1940 Batman stopped killing.

 

[returntovoid]

In the Bill Finger Batman comic books, Batman would most often be put in situations in which killing would be the only option.

For example in Detective Comics #27, The Case of the Chemical Syndicate:

The murderer Alfred Stryker kidnaps Paul Rogers, then Batman comes to prevent Rogers death by the hands of Stryker, then Batman stuns Stryker with hand-to-hand combat, then while Batman removes the rope tied around Rogers, Stryker gets really pissed off that some vigilante defeated him and He take his gun out to try killing Batman (even though He got stunned and is a bit weak but still Stryker has an homicidial urge to kill Batman) then Batman fights Stryker through self-defence, then Stryker accidently falls into the vat of chemical, then Batman remarks "A fitting fate for his kind"

 

[TruerToTheCore]

Still amazing that people think Bill Finger and his gang actually put much thought into that topic. He just killed because it was acceptable in those times, without being "PC" and that stuff.

Mickey Mouse, Superman, Hawkman killed, too.

As soon as charactes become popular they clean up their act. Go figure. And it helps to have recurring villains.

Batman doesn't kill and it's better that way.

 

[BatScot]

In the first year [Batman] had been a grim vigilante who operated outside of the law. In several early issues of Detective Comics he even carried a gun. We had our first brush with censorship in Batman #1… Readers found this use of a gun deplorable, however. “I goofed,” Bill Finger later recalled.

Bob Kane ~ Batman & Me (1989)

 

[ironman29758]

Still amazing that people think Bill Finger and his gang actually put much thought into that topic. He just killed because it was acceptable in those times, without being "PC" and that stuff.

Mickey Mouse, Superman, Hawkman killed, too.

As soon as charactes become popular they clean up their act. Go figure. And it helps to have recurring villains.

Batman doesn't kill and it's better that way.

when did Mickey Mouse and Superman kill in the Golden age?

 

[Johnny Drama]

when did Mickey Mouse and Superman kill in the Golden age?

That's what I would like to know...

 

[TruerToTheCore]

(Mickey Mouse didn't kill, but was a very mean character back in the day, like feeding cats' tails into meat grinders...)