In one of the early stories, he is depicted using a gun to stop a group of giant assailants. These early stories depicted a vengeful Batman, not hesitant to kill when he saw it as a necessary sacrifice. The first stories appearing in the Batman comic were written by Bill Finger and illustrated by Bob Kane, though Finger went uncredited for years thereafter. This allows him to become an iconic urban legend, which in turn allows him to do things an ordinary man cannot. In the eyes of the public, the Batman is believed to be something more than human: an indeterminable black specter that represents terror. Batman utilizes his keen analytical mind and sophisticated technology and gadgetry as well as outstanding physical agility, power and stamina to ensure that criminals never feel safe in Gotham. Secretly, the Batman is billionaire philanthropist Bruce Wayne, a young socialite who witnessed his parents' murder during a mugging at the age of 8. In an effort to combat the aforementioned villains, Batman preys upon their fear. Its citizens live in perpetual fear from the vast number of costumed criminals, gangs and common thugs. The Batman saga takes place in Gotham City, a city overrun with crime and corruption. 8.2 Batman (collected with Detective Comics).Jettisoning such miscellaneous characters as Bat-Mite and Ace the Bat-Hound in favour of Aunt Harriet (the symbolic figure designed to combat Wertham-led claims of implied homosexuality), Batman gained his famous yellow chest symbol and moved from operating during the day to truly being a creature of the night.

However, there allegedly came a time in 1964 when DC's then-editorial director Irwin Donenfeld gave Julius Schwartz and Carmine Infantino a deadline of six months to turn the then-flagging comic around, or it would be cancelled. Though the Batman comic book was initially launched as a quarterly publication, it later became a bi-monthly series through the late 1950s, after which it became a monthly publication and has remained so since. It was first advertised in early April 1940, one month after the first appearance of his new sidekick, Robin, the Boy Wonder. Batman proved to be so popular that a self-titled ongoing comic book series began publication in the spring of 1940. The character first appeared in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939. Bob Kane Batman is a comic book series featuring the DC Comics hero of the same name.

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