Batman Career Timeline?

[MadVillainy]

For example:
Batman meets Gordon and Dent in Year One
Dent becomes Two Face in the second year of his career (Long Halloween)
Batman meets Robin in his third year (Dark Victory)

I was wondering does anyone have a timeline showing in what year of his career did he meet Superman, when Dick became Nightwing, when Damien was born, etc.

Much appreciated

 

[antsman41]

This is my crazy continuity for the current Batman series. It is more anal than this but it was easier to show with the "major" storylines. In sense if Bruce was 25 in "Year One", I feel he is 45 but with the body of a 35 year old since he was probably dipped into a Laz Pit atleast once "KnightsQuest" or even twice during the "Rise of Ra's/Nyssa" storyline.

-Y1 (1990)-
Batman: Year One
-Y2 (1991)-
Batman: The Man Who Laughs
Batman & The Monster Men
Batman & The Mad Monk
Batman: The Long Halloween pt 1-3?
-Y3 (1992)
Batman: The Long Halloween pt 4-12
-Y4 (1993)-
etc. Batman: Dark Victory pt1-3?
-Y5 (1994)- Batman: Dark Victory pt4-12?
Batman: The Guantlet
Robin: Year One (Dick Grayson ~13 yoa)
-Y6 (1995)-
Batgirl: Year One (Barbara Gordon ~16yoa)
Batman 408-411 (Jason Todd ~12yoa)
-Y7 (1996)-
Batman: A Killing Joke
Batman: A Death In The Family
Batman: A Lonely Place Of Dying (Tim Drake ~12yoa)
Batman: The Killing Joke
-Y8 (1997)-
Batman: Kightfall
Batman: Knightsend
Batman: Prodigal
-Y9 (1998)-
Batman: Contagion
Batman: Legacy
Batman: Cataclysm
-Y10 (1999)-
Batman: No Man's Land
-Y11 (2000)-
Batman: New Gotham: Evolution
Batman: Officer Down
-Y12 (2001)-
Batman: Bruce Wayne: Murderer?
Batman: Bruce Wayne: Fugitive
-Y13 (2002)-
Batman: Hush
Gotham Central: Vol. I
etc.
-Y14 (2003)-
Gotham Central: Vol. II
-Y15 (2004)-
Gotham Central: Vol. III
etc.
-Y16 (2005)-
Gotham Central: Vol. IV
War Games
War Crimes...
-Y17 (2006)-
Gotham Central: Vol. V
etc.
-Y18 (2007)-
Batman & Son
Batman: The Resurrection of Ra's
Batman: The Black Glove
-Y19 (2008)-
Batman R.I.P.
Batman & Robin: Vol. I
Batman & Robin: Vol. II
-Y20 (2009)-
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
etc.
-Y21 (2010)-
Batman Inc.

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[souloffire]

[-Y2 (1991)-
Batman: The Man Who Laughs
Batman & The Monster Men
Batman & The Mad Monk
Batman: The Long Halloween pt 1-3?
-Y3 (1992)
Batman: The Long Halloween pt 4-12

Good catch, you're the only other person I've seen that realizes the majority of TLH takes place in year 3.

 

[CConn]

While I like most of that timeline, I really doubt DCU time moves that fast. Batman is probably legitimately 35-38 in the DCU.

 

[CrimsonMist]

The Man Who Laughs comes after The Mad Monk. Both Monster Men and The Mad Monk occur within the Year One time-line.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

DC's characters don't age by any system and it doesn't make sense at all if you compare them, so this kind of stuff is totally useless. A nice thing to play around with, yes, but Batman will never be 50 in regular continuity.

 

[Mace Dolex]

I remember reading in the letter column page of Batman #420 (Jun '88) in that a reader came up with a nifty timeline according to him after reading Batman #416 (Feb '88) in that particular issue we have the infamous meeting between Batman and Nightwing.

In it Dick Grayson finally confronts Bruce as to why he had according to him "fired" from being Robin again over a shooting incident with the Joker from Batman #408 (Jun '87) that injured Dick, and in the story Dick mentions to Bruce that they were a team for six long years.

Now the reader from the letter column took that six year timeframe to base his own conclusions which I thought were clever basically taking eight years of real time equivalent to one year in comic book time.

1st Year (Robin age 12)
1940-1947 (since Robin was introduced in 1940 this would be the starting point)

2nd Year (Robin age 13)
1948-1955

3rd Year (Robin age 14)
1956-1963

4th Year (Robin age 15)
1964-1971 (from here Dick might've graduated H.S. at an early age to enroll in college)

5th Year (Robin age 16)
1972-1979

6th Year (Robin age 17)
1980-1987 (at this point Dick was with the Titans and made sporadic Robin appearances plus COIE was happening so a few years might be off)

I mean if you take it with a grain of salt it sort of makes a little sense since Dick had quit as Robin in "our real" time in 1987 ignoring Pre-Crisis.