Question about the Batcave

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

In Batman Begins, the writers were nothing short of brilliant for explaining that the Batcave actually existed before the manor, that an underground railroad was used to free slaves from the south, implying that the house itself was built on that spot for housing purposed... it certainly makes the idea of the Batcave's existence believable.

Did this idea of the railroad and slaves actually originate in the comics, and can someone site the issue?

 

[Admiral_Young]

There is an underground railroad beneath Wayne Manor in the first issues of "Batman".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batcave#Fictional_history

 

[Locutus of Bored]

In Batman Begins, the writers were nothing short of brilliant for explaining that the Batcave actually existed before the manor, that an underground railroad was used to free slaves from the south, implying that the house itself was built on that spot for housing purposed... it certainly makes the idea of the Batcave's existence believable.

Did this idea of the railroad and slaves actually originate in the comics, and can someone site the issue?

Uhh, seriously?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad

 

[doubleohfive]

In Batman Begins, the writers were nothing short of brilliant for explaining that the Batcave actually existed before the manor, that an underground railroad was used to free slaves from the south, implying that the house itself was built on that spot for housing purposed... it certainly makes the idea of the Batcave's existence believable.

Did this idea of the railroad and slaves actually originate in the comics, and can someone site the issue?

 

[Hound of UIster]

In Batman Begins, the writers were nothing short of brilliant for explaining that the Batcave actually existed before the manor, that an underground railroad was used to free slaves from the south, implying that the house itself was built on that spot for housing purposed... it certainly makes the idea of the Batcave's existence believable.

Did this idea of the railroad and slaves actually originate in the comics, and can someone site the issue?

Like most things in the Nolan movies, it's cribbed from the comics. The exact issue was Shadow of the Bat #45 where Bruce finds the remains of one of his ancestors in the cave.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

In Batman Begins, the writers were nothing short of brilliant for explaining that the Batcave actually existed before the manor, that an underground railroad was used to free slaves from the south, implying that the house itself was built on that spot for housing purposed... it certainly makes the idea of the Batcave's existence believable.

Did this idea of the railroad and slaves actually originate in the comics, and can someone site the issue?

Like most things in the Nolan movies, it's cribbed from the comics. The exact issue was Shadow of the Bat #45 where Bruce finds the remains of one of his ancestors in the cave.

Thank you. I don't know why everyone else is jumping on me for asking a question.

Thanks!

MODS: please close this

 

[Christopher]

^I think they're assuming, from the way you phrased your question, that you weren't familiar with the real Underground Railroad from history. I figured you just meant you didn't know whether it had been mentioned in connection with Batman before.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

^I think they're assuming, from the way you phrased your question, that you weren't familiar with the real Underground Railroad from history. I figured you just meant you didn't know whether it had been mentioned in connection with Batman before.

Yes, thank you. That's what I was asking.

It was so cleverly used in the film, but I could swear I they got it from the comics, but I couldn't recall the issue or series or if my memory was just flawed on the matter and it had in fact originated in the film...

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

^I think they're assuming, from the way you phrased your question, that you weren't familiar with the real Underground Railroad from history. I figured you just meant you didn't know whether it had been mentioned in connection with Batman before.

Is that why they were being nasty? I took it the same way you did.

 

[Trekker4747]

Interestingly the "underground railroad" was neither underground nor a railroad.

 

[doubleohfive]

^I think they're assuming, from the way you phrased your question, that you weren't familiar with the real Underground Railroad from history. I figured you just meant you didn't know whether it had been mentioned in connection with Batman before.

Is that why they were being nasty? I took it the same way you did.

Who was being nasty? Apart from some sarcasm (guilty as charged) I don't see anything nasty in this thread.

 

[Christopher]

Interestingly the "underground railroad" was neither underground nor a railroad.

It would be if Batman had run it.

 

[Trekker4747]

Interestingly the "underground railroad" was neither underground nor a railroad.

It would be if Batman had run it.

Well then it'd be called the Bat-Railroad. Or the Underground Batroad. Or the Batground Railbat. Or the Batbound Batboad. Or something.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

^I think they're assuming, from the way you phrased your question, that you weren't familiar with the real Underground Railroad from history. I figured you just meant you didn't know whether it had been mentioned in connection with Batman before.

Is that why they were being nasty? I took it the same way you did.

Who was being nasty? Apart from some sarcasm (guilty as charged) I don't see anything nasty in this thread.

Maybe "nasty" is the wrong word. But the attitude seemed unwarranted for such an innocent question.

 

[RoJoHen]

Is that why they were being nasty? I took it the same way you did.

Who was being nasty? Apart from some sarcasm (guilty as charged) I don't see anything nasty in this thread.

Maybe "nasty" is the wrong word. But the attitude seemed unwarranted for such an innocent question.

The Underground Railroad is just a myth that was invented by Batman comics! It never really happened!

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

But that's not what he said or even implied. He just asked the question in a ham-fisted way.

 

[RoJoHen]

No shit. I'm just kidding.

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

Okay.

 

[Lapis Exilis]

In Batman Begins, the writers were nothing short of brilliant for explaining that the Batcave actually existed before the manor, that an underground railroad was used to free slaves from the south, implying that the house itself was built on that spot for housing purposed... it certainly makes the idea of the Batcave's existence believable.

Did this idea of the railroad and slaves actually originate in the comics, and can someone site the issue?

Like most things in the Nolan movies, it's cribbed from the comics. The exact issue was Shadow of the Bat #45 where Bruce finds the remains of one of his ancestors in the cave.

I think it's mentioned in several stories, though I guess that's the first. Over the years the history of the Wayne family is touched on several times, usually pointing up their benevolence and willingness to go against unjust laws like slavery. I'm vaguely remembering a Judge Soloman Wayne who lived in the 1800s, mentioned in a few stories?

Found it - this says the issue was Legends of the Dark Knight #27 (which makes sense because the first few years of LotDK was the only Batman title I read regularly) - and I remember now it was part of the post Batman 1989 push that remade the visuals of Gotham City in the comics to bring them in line with the movie.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

In Batman Begins, the writers were nothing short of brilliant for explaining that the Batcave actually existed before the manor, that an underground railroad was used to free slaves from the south, implying that the house itself was built on that spot for housing purposed... it certainly makes the idea of the Batcave's existence believable.

Did this idea of the railroad and slaves actually originate in the comics, and can someone site the issue?

Like most things in the Nolan movies, it's cribbed from the comics. The exact issue was Shadow of the Bat #45 where Bruce finds the remains of one of his ancestors in the cave.

I think it's mentioned in several stories, though I guess that's the first. Over the years the history of the Wayne family is touched on several times, usually pointing up their benevolence and willingness to go against unjust laws like slavery. I'm vaguely remembering a Judge Soloman Wayne who lived in the 1800s, mentioned in a few stories?

Found it - this says the issue was Legends of the Dark Knight #27 (which makes sense because the first few years of LotDK was the only Batman title I read regularly) - and I remember now it was part of the post Batman 1989 push that remade the visuals of Gotham City in the comics to bring them in line with the movie.

Thank you