What got you into Batman?

[Boy Scout]

The Animated Series.

 

[dcgothamite]

The Animated Series. Hands down.

 

[Mistah K88]

That's right, after years of inactivity, this thread is getting a bump. Surely we've had many more Batfans want to tell their origin story.

Oh yeah, as for my nephew that was a few months old in 2012, turns out he is more into Spider-Man... go figure.

 

[nyyarod]

My dad. He's a big comic book fan and he got me into comics. Once I started reading about the Bat I was done The animated series just threw it to an entirely different level.

 

[Tundrawalker]

For some reason I was crazy to get my hands on a hard to get copy of The Killing Joke in the 1988. I dangled a $100 bill in the window of a closed comic book shop late one night that I knew still had a copy. I then bought Legends of the Dark Knight for a few years. This was when the graphic novel style was first gaining popularity.

 

[Babillygunn]

Adam West. And then Superfriends.

 

[Dark Guardian]

Batman the Animated Series. My parents taped every episode and wanted to watch them all along with me because they were so good.

 

[vantheman77]

Superfriends, Scooby-Doo, and 1966 TV series.

 

[Lead Cenobite]

I might have watched the 60s series first, I believe they were being rerun on the Family Channel(what Freeform used to be) around the time Batman 89 came out.

 

[Mace Dolex]

I only had a vague knowledge of Batman from the Super Friends and the '66 TV show but in 1987 I happened upon a Spanish Batman comic reprint with art by Gene Colan in which Batman fights and gets bitten by the Vampire Monk turning Bats into a vampire that scared the crap out of me making me a fan for life.

 

[Herofan]

I think it was Batman Forever, I think that was the first movie I saw in theaters and I really loved it, the action, fun characters, story. TAS and/or MotP were also early and probably came soon after.

 

[Mistah K88]

It's a new year, so might as well bring this thread up to see if we have new people who wish to share the progenitor to their fandom of the Bat.

 

[Brutikus]

For me when Batman Begins came out I loved it and then checked out the 1989 Batman movie and it sort of snowballed from there.