If you have a source on this hypothesis, getting into the heads of Bob Kane and Bill Finger, and if they ever talked about Batman’s origins and his original paradigm, I’d love to read about it.
Still, I just don’t think they were aware how dangerous ordinary brawling was, especially as lead poisoning was epidemic and fueled the higher crime rates.
Also, if you read 1950s era Superman, he’s a total dick. Jesus-Superman emerged from the 1978 movie with Christopher Reeve – the same source that gave us the crystaline Krypton and Fortress of Solitude
Batman was created as the reverse of Superman: light vs darkness, superpowers vs a human being, just a journalist vs a billionaire, …
That’s why were Superman is an ideal of everything that’s good in humanity, Batman is the vision of the humanity not as a hero but as a vigilante.
If you have a source on this hypothesis, getting into the heads of Bob Kane and Bill Finger, and if they ever talked about Batman’s origins and his original paradigm, I’d love to read about it.
Still, I just don’t think they were aware how dangerous ordinary brawling was, especially as lead poisoning was epidemic and fueled the higher crime rates.
Also, if you read 1950s era Superman, he’s a total dick. Jesus-Superman emerged from the 1978 movie with Christopher Reeve – the same source that gave us the crystaline Krypton and Fortress of Solitude