I am a Dark Knight fan from wayyyyyy back. Lets just say I am old enough to have been an impressionable young lad when I watched the original series and the movies back in the 60's.
It was awesome to see that cover as I had no idea that it existed. I am definitely going to try to get a copy. I have a framed copy of the original Detective Comics #1, "The Batman" hanging in my office. It was an anniversary present from my wife many years ago.
Last edited by MACKAY; 27th May 07 at 10:31 AM.
"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." - Franklin P. Adams
Firstly, that is really cool! As a comic collector from way back, I would really like to have a copy of this issue.
I never knew about Mr. Wayne's Scottish ancestry. I don't normally think of "Wayne" as necessarily being Scottish, but as a researcher of Scottish names, it isn't ordinarily out of hand to think of it as having been Anglicized from something else (esp. as he is an American). The first name that comes to mind is the phonetically similar "Whan", which has been associated w/ the MacDonald and MacQueen families. Given that I don't take published sept lists as biblical truth, I don't find it out of the question to put a branch of this family in the sphere of MacLeod influence. Of course, this is speculation off the top of my head regarding a fictional character, so take it for what its worth.
When Bob Kane created Batman's alter ego, he used the inspiration of "Mad Anthony" Wayne and Robert the Bruce to create "Bruce Wayne."
In "Batman: The Scottish Connection" (a fairly recent small graphic novel, 1998) it is claimed that Bruce is descended from a crusader Scottish-Norman knight "Sir Gaweune De Weyne, knight of the Scottish court" and Clan MacDubh, on his mother's side.
Batman also goes to Scotland in "Legacy of the Bat" no. 54 (Sept. 96), as part of the "Legacy" story line.
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