In this story, Batman learns that mob boss Lew Moxon hired Chill to kill the Waynes as revenge for Thomas testifying against him 10 years before hand. īatman's origin is expanded upon once again in Detective Comics #235 (June 1956), which recasts the Waynes’ murder not as a random mugging, but an assassination. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible .' As if responding to his desires, a bat suddenly flies through the window, inspiring Bruce to craft the Batman persona. 'Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot', Bruce remarks, 'so my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. He engages in intense intellectual and physical training however, he realizes that these skills alone would not be enough. That night, Bruce swears an oath to spend his life fighting crime. Bruce is brought up in Wayne Manor, and leads a happy and privileged existence until the age of eight, when his parents are killed by a small-time criminal named Joe Chill while on their way home from a movie theater.

Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, two very wealthy and charitable Gotham City socialites. īatman's origin is later expanded upon in Batman #47. Days later, the child vows that 'by the spirits of my parents avenge their deaths by spending the rest of my life warring on all criminals'. Written by Batman co-creator Bill Finger, it depicts a young Bruce Wayne witnessing his parents' murder at the hands of a mugger. 1939), unfolding in a two-page story that establishes the brooding persona of Batman, a character driven by the murder of his parents. The character's origin was first depicted in Detective Comics #33 (Nov. 1939), which the young Bruce Wayne (lower left) witnesses. Thomas and Martha Wayne are shot by Joe Chill in Detective Comics #33 (Nov.

Batman by Gregg Andrew Hurwitz