the name of the
main character in a
comic strip created by Bob Kane in 1939. After his parents are killed by a gangster, Bruce Wayne vows to avenge their deaths by spending the rest of his
life fighting
crime. He becomes a
master scientist and constructs the
world's greatest
crime lab underneath his
home. He then adopts the
guise of a mysterious caped crusader, "Batman," to fight the sinister forces of
evil.
a popular
American comic strip character created in 1939 by cartoonist Bob Kane, subsequently seen widely in movies and on television. The
general story tells of Bruce Wayne, orphaned in his
teens when a
criminal killed his parents. Inheriting their fortune, Bruce constructs a
complex crime-fighting
lab under the Wayne mansion and, as the mysterious "Batman," he wages
war on criminals plaguing Gotham City (where he lives). Batman's identity is