What got you into Batman?

[shadowforce420]

I really hope that's the case, although Batman: The Brave and the Bold is a little more campy, but I still think it is a fun show and a cool way to introduce other heroes too. Maybe that combined with the Justice League and JLU series will bring about a whole new era of great Batman fans. As nerdy as it sounds, my love of Batman is something I would really love to pass along to my kids someday.

Sorry to double post. My nephew watches BATB and he already knows about Batman but he's been asking me about Arrow and Beetle so I think the show is doing some good.

 

[jacksparrow900]

The first time I got in to batman was when i was five when the tim burton batman movie came out i remember having a batman lunch box with the joker battling batman with a huge mallet. I was more a joker fan than batman all that summer me and my cousin would play batman everyday we had the toys and the trading cards from the movie. I also had a poster of jack nicholson sitting in a beach chair with a can of smilex in his hand. I also remember I had a hard time finding a joker action figure so when I went to new york to visit my relatives I found one at the mall it was so exciting to have you fill the little tank with a plastic tube attached and the joker would squirt water out his flower I also remember having a joker figure that his face change to skin color when you put it in warm water. That summer was fun.

 

[gothamgod]

Adam Freaking West go tme watching Bat Man. But what kept me a Bat Man fan was he dont need powers to be the man like some other "hero". The reminds me of a little kid playing with friends that just keeps coming up with new powers to be better then every one else.

 

[luke1234]

Batman 89 and The Animated Series, followed by the comic books

 

[Mistah K88]

might as well bump this thread up...

I think Batman Returns contributed to me being a Batman fan as well (even though I don't like it all that much now and I wonder how I could have possibly watched it without having nightmares as a kid). It also may have been the thing to make Penguin my favorite bat baddie even though I prefer the classic "gentleman of crime" persona.

 

[the_joker]

Burton's Batman and Batman TAS. I got properly into the comics a lot later when I was in my teens. As a result, I remain a firm supporter of art deco Gotham.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Batman 89 was the introduction.

Batman Year One (which I got from the library) and BTAS made it official.

 

[B@tfan2289]

Growing up with the 1960s show of Adam West and then buying the comics over the years and still do giving a big turn on my view on Batman t: and then came the '89 Burton movie and it never let go of me.

 

[GothamAlleys]

Just when the first signs of buzz about Burton's Batman started to kick in. The yellow logo started appearing everywhere and soon every knew who Batman is and most of my friends had board games and comic books already.I never owned a comic book at that point and finally after few weeks had to check whos that Batman character im seeing everywhere about. My first comic book was 1988's Detective Comics #596 and since then I was buying every single issue and became a hardcore fan. So the early hype for B89 is what got me into it

 

[cryptic name]

When I was a around 2, my parents taped Batman 89 off HBO. I would watch it, rewind it, and watch it again. That's when it started. The animated series and reruns of the Adam West show helped after that, as well as the massive excitement I had for Batman Returns when that was being advertised.

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

Batman Returns came out when I was six. I didn't have too much exposure to the first movie at the time, but I still loved Batman. I had a bunch of the toys from Returns and The Dark Knight Collection as well as a few stray Super Powers figures. I had so much fun with these toys. I would always put my Arctic Batman in a little tupperware container filled with water and stick it in the freezer - Batman, trapped in ice by Mr. Freeze!

When time came to go see Returns, though, I chickened out. I was terrified of Penguin. I still remember the night my family went out to see it while I opted to stay at home with Grandma, playing with my Batman figures. Stupid kid.

By the time it came out on video I was over my fears and LOVED IT. Also became obsessed with the animated series. My mom would get me a new animated series action figure practically every weekend at K-Mart or Walgreens or wherever we ended up.

I still didn't have that many comics, though. I remember having a handful, mostly random stocking stuffers and pharmacy store impulse pickups from my mom. The biggest moment came when our neighbor brought over a couple of hand-me-downs from her grandson - a few t-shirts and whatnots, and a copy of The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told. I read the ever-loving **** out of that book. Every night, under the covers with a flashlight.

Batman Forever was a fond memory. My first Batman theatrical experience, and at the height of my childhood fandom. As soon as I got home, I used the florescent green and silver LEGOS I had to build a NygmaTech lair. Good times. I actually still remember my first glimpse of the teaser poster for Forever. This was before the internet, so often that would be your first awareness of a film's existence. In this case, it was. Seeing the batsymbol enclosed in a question mark blew my mind.

Gah, I'm getting all nostalgic.

 

[finalrelief]

Batman TAS as a kid like many others here, the toys, the movies, then around the time of Batman/Robin I decided to check out the old Adam West show since FX kept on putting those out same bat time same bat place each week. Then when Batman Begins came out I got intrigued by graphic novels and started researching the comics to see what else great Batman stories were out there... then The Dark Knight came out and Batman Arkham Asylum.... ughhhhh I'm stuck for life.

 

[ctrillian23]

Hello, this might not be the right place to ask this, but as a noob, I am not allowed to start a new thread. I need some advice from Batman fans. I am thinking of purchasing the Hot Wheels Batmobile 1:18 1966 ed. for my bf for Xmas and am unsure if he will like this or not, or whether it is a good collectible. While I share his passion for gaming, I am unschooled in all that is Batman (except for my appreciation of the Burton films).

The seller wants $50 and the box is still factory sealed. Any advice is welcome and appreciated!

 

[Holiday]

Hello, this might not be the right place to ask this, but as a noob, I am not allowed to start a new thread. I need some advice from Batman fans. I am thinking of purchasing the Hot Wheels Batmobile 1:18 1966 ed. for my bf for Xmas and am unsure if he will like this or not, or whether it is a good collectible. While I share his passion for gaming, I am unschooled in all that is Batman (except for my appreciation of the Burton films).

The seller wants $50 and the box is still factory sealed. Any advice is welcome and appreciated!

Looks like a good price for it. I would find out if he's a fan of the 60's show or not though. Does he have many other collectibles?

 

[El Payaso]

In was a kid in 1979 when a friend of mine had a comic book with Wonder Woman in it. The WW TV series was a hit and Linda Carter was already stealing my latent period away so I bought the same comic book.

The comic book featured the Justice League. I barely knew Wonder Woman and Superman (because of the movie). Batman was in it and he was by far the one who caught my attention from them all. The mask, the cape, the symbol but specially I remember wondering 'who's that guy under the mask'?

I was a fan already when I saw the TV series the next year, and I was trying to get as many comic books about him as I could.

Years later, in 1989, the Tim Burton movie strengthened my fanatism forever.

 

[souvlaki]

For me it was a mixture of the '89 Batman film and re-runs of the 60's television show. Around the time Batman Returns came out I remember talking to a kid at school about how much I disliked Robin (my only real exposure to the character being the television show) and they mentioned to me that they owned a comic book where Robin died. I went out and found a tpb of "Death in the Family" and from that point on I was a huge comic book fan.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Well I grew up around the time of Batman and Robin, and remember absolutely loving that movie when I was a kid

 

[GothamAlleys]

In was a kid in 1979 when a friend of mine had a comic book with Wonder Woman in it. The WW TV series was a hit and Linda Carter was already stealing my latent period away so I bought the same comic book.

The comic book featured the Justice League. I barely knew Wonder Woman and Superman (because of the movie). Batman was in it and he was by far the one who caught my attention from them all. The mask, the cape, the symbol but specially I remember wondering 'who's that guy under the mask'?

I was a fan already when I saw the TV series the next year, and I was trying to get as many comic books about him as I could.

Years later, in 1989, the Tim Burton movie strengthened my fanatism forever.

Whoa, quite an old timer.

Its also interesting to see that most of us got into the whole business thanks to 1989 Batman

 

[the amazing fro]

I had liked the batman animated series but it was always on around 8:30 just before I went to school so I could never watch it. I was much more a spider-man guy and my best friend was a batman guy. We had a big argument one day about who was better. One day (around 2004) I saw him reading a comic called batman legends which is a UK comic that reprints batman American comics. The storyline was hush and while I wasn't interested in batman the art work was amazing. SO I bought the next issue and I got hooked on batman. But he was still only second best to spider-man. That was until batman begins came out.

Wow. Probably the most satisfying cinema experience of my life. It was so good that a few days after I bought all the graphic novels (TDKR, year one, long Halloween etc). So really my love of batman really stems from a mixture of Jim lee, Christopher Nolan and my friend to whom I am eternally grateful t:

 

[Team Andino]

When I was about 3 years old (which was 1991) I fell in love with reruns of the 1960's Batman show. My mom told me earlier this year how I'd hate watching Sesame Street but I'd fall into a trance when the Adam West Batman show was on so she let me watch it. In my early childhood shortly after that I would spend every other say watching Batman(1989) and the classic Batman Serials from the 40's. I absolutely loved every second of it. As I grew older the B:TAS stole my heart and made my childhood the epic youth anyone my age could of had. The toys and my imagination I made my own epic saga's that made Gotham( my house) and grand scale city it was. I grew outta it shortly after Batman and Robin came out an not because the movie turned me off from Batman just that I was getting older and I kinda moved on from it. I wasn't all to adamant about Batman Begins but I knew I'd see it when it came out. About 5 minutes into it I was shocked at how much I was enjoying it and when I heard Ducard say "I come on behalf of Ra's al Ghul" I went nuts seeing that Ra's was one of my favorite villains from the Animated series. Once the ending came and I saw that Joker card I was hooked again. I've been a die hard fan again ever since and now as an adult I go back and can appreciate so many of these Batman stories that as a child I couldn't even begin to comprehend.

I'm proud to say that I'm a Batman fan and even at work I've gained the nickname Batman which is neat to hear it on the radio and intercom at work when I'm needed

 

[B@tfan2289]

Batman inspires me because, like Ra's al Ghul (Liam Neeson, Batman Begins) said, he's just an ordinary man in a cape.

He meant it in a different texture but that makes Batman so great for me. The only thing he has is it's skills and human power and no superpowers. That's makes him more human than the others! And he's dressed up like a Bat he clearly has issues but very cool!

 

[Mister Meddle]

There wasn't a specific moment. It just happened throughout time. It was most likely from Batman The Animated series back in 1992. When I was a kid I used to watch every cartoon that was on television however very couple caught on. I don't know how but Batman appealed to me much more than the other cartoons I used to watch. It then lead to renting the 1989 Batman film, which I really enjoyed. My mom even made me the costume. I even had the action figures from BTAS toyline as well as the Batmobile and Wayne Manor/Batcave playset.

When Batman Forever came out when I was 6 or 7 I thought it was alright, although I enjoyed the adult-oriented Burton-Two more than the children friendly film provided by Schumacher. My opinions then were pretty much the same as they are now; I liked Batman and Robin but the villains were very corny.

I remember watching Batman & Robin at the movies when I was 8 because my step brother wanted to see it. I did not enjoy it. And I thought the villains in Batman Forever were campy..... pretty much every little detail in Batman & Robin was corny as hell. The Batcreditcard, the Bat-ice-skates that magically pops out if you tap your boots together, ice that looks like cheap plastic, the lame humor, the storyline, the overall presentation, George Clooney, etc. The film was only destined to target 2 - 4 year old fans that knew absolutely nothing about Batman. That's why the film went over so well with my step brother lol.

After Batman & Robin I completely lost interest in Batman all together. I even missed out on Batman Beyond (until a few months ago when I downloaded all of the episodes and watched them for the first time). I once again became interested in Batman once I watched the teaser of the Batman Begins film online back in fall 2004.

For the first time in at least 16 years I became a hardcore Batman fan once again. It was around Halloween 2009 I was bored one day and there was nothing on but Batman (1989) on the Superstation. It was weird because it was the first time I watched the movie in like 10 years. It reminded me why I loved Batman when I was a child. Shortly after that I purchased the Burton-Two on DVD, watched old episodes of BTAS, watched episodes from Batman Beyond for the first time and started to read the comics once again. Never in my life did I read so much in such a small period of time lol.

 

[Cain]

Mainly a combination of reruns of the Adam West TV show and issues from the Alan Grant, John Wagner and Norm Breyfogle Detective Comics era all back in 1988. Been hooked ever since.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

it's in the family.

 

[spidermanJLA!~]

Ever since I was young(er), I watched all the dcau shows on kids wb, cartoon network,etc. Gotham Knights, Batman: the animated series, Batman Beyond, you name it! Also, I had a lot of batman figures as a kid. Plus, I just love superheroes.