Truth be told-I know this is going to sound strange-I didn't actively start reading Batman comics until after Forever came out.
A Viewmaster.
I was three years old, and my parents got me a Viewmaster. One of the slides was Batman riding and battling the Joker's shark from THE JOKER'S FIVE WAY REVENGE.
A Viewmaster.
I was three years old, and my parents got me a Viewmaster. One of the slides was Batman riding and battling the Joker's shark from THE JOKER'S FIVE WAY REVENGE.
Then they introduced me to reruns of the Adam West show. Around the same time, my best friend and I were both given the three core SUPER POWERS figures, Superman, Batman and Robin.
My parents also had this:
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I listened to it religiously, along with the two Superman ones I had.
I saw Tim Burton's BATMAN when I was eight, I think, on video, because I wasn't allowed to see it in theatres. Then my grandfather bought me The Complete Frank Miller Batman the same year, which included YEAR ONE and THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. I got THE GREATEST BATMAN STORIES EVER TOLD from our local library around the same time, the only comic book collection they had there.
BATMAN RETURNS kept my interest, and the first comic book I read after Miller's and the greatest stories was the one where Tim Drake's Robin trains Jean Paul Valley before KNIGHTFALL. I was hooked after that.
It's 25 years later. Guess what I was given for Christmas?
A Viewmaster. I think they had an inkling.
Returns was my first "theatre movie".
That very moment (3 years old) I was hooked forever.
Returns Toys -> BTAS -> Comics...
Being born, no really I can't remeber but my Dad and Mom tell me when I was very young (too young to remember) I had a bunch of Batman related toys that I pointed to at the stores and that's was the reason they purchased them for me, and since I liked Batman soo much they would dress me up as batman on Halloween.What was your first Bat experience? What got you into Batman?
That's exactly how I felt as a child growing up in the 80's I was around 7-9 years of age where I started feeling that I had outgrown superheroes and that they were kid stuff when you had things like Transformers, G.I.Joe, Thundercats, He-Man which was the talk of the day at school recess.I was introduced to Batman, as a kid, by the Adam West series. That was the late 70's to early 80's era. As I got older and realized how silly and senseless it was, my interests then went towards Transformers, Voltron and Robotech. Then one day when I was in sixth grade some friends were reading comics at recess. A Batman ad caught my eye.