What happened to Julie?

[Fats Tuesday]

I've been reading the Batman Chronicles and was quite shocked to know he once had a fiancée. Does this relationship ever get developed or is it something that was quietly forgotten about?

[Gary Joyce]

Hugo Strange turns her into a monster later on.

Julie was based on Bob Kanes real-life fiancee and when the relationship ended he turned her into a monster so i guess it ended badly.

[TheTen-EyedMan]

Hugo Strange turns her into a monster later on.

Julie was based on Bob Kanes real-life fiancee and when the relationship ended he turned her into a monster so i guess it ended badly.

Seems like Bob Kane and Arthur Miller have something in common.

Miller did that to Marilyn in After the Fall after their marriage went south.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_the_Fall_%28play%29

[areacode212]

Wikipedia has some more info on Julie Madison, if you're interested:

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

[Chad]

Hugo Strange turns her into a monster later on.

Julie was based on Bob Kanes real-life fiancee and when the relationship ended he turned her into a monster so i guess it ended badly.

I haven't read Matt Wagner's new take on the old Hugo Strange story, but unless that's Julie's fate in Wagner's story, Hugo Strange never turned her into one of his monsters.

The relationship was quietly forgotten about and Julie Madison was replaced with Linda Page I believe (who left Bruce when it became clear to her that he had no plans to be anything more than a bored playboy).

Secret Origins #6 (1986) retold the origin and subsequent training of the Golden Age Batman and in doing so, touched upon Bruce Wayne's relationship with Julie Madison. Having met in college, Wayne tells her that he intends to go into police work, a plan which he of course abands in favour of becoming the Bat-Man. Just piror to proposing to Julie, he begins his war on crime and immediately following "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" from Tec 27, he calls Julie and almost proposes. They finish their conversation and Wayne's thoughts reveal that the reason he didn't become a police officer was so that Bruce Wayne can marry Julie and leave the crimefighting to his masked identity. It doesn't explain what happened from then on though.

Incidentally, Secret Origins #6 is also significant for being the only Batman story Marshall Rogers drew in between his original 'Strange Apparitions' run in the 70s and his return to Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight in 2000.

[Gary Joyce]

I haven't read Matt Wagner's new take on the old Hugo Strange story, but unless that's Julie's fate in Wagner's story, Hugo Strange never turned her into one of his monsters.

The relationship was quietly forgotten about and Julie Madison was replaced with Linda Page I believe (who left Bruce when it became clear to her that he had no plans to be anything more than a bored playboy).

Secret Origins #6 (1986) retold the origin and subsequent training of the Golden Age Batman and in doing so, touched upon Bruce Wayne's relationship with Julie Madison. Having met in college, Wayne tells her that he intends to go into police work, a plan which he of course abands in favour of becoming the Bat-Man. Just piror to proposing to Julie, he begins his war on crime and immediately following "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" from Tec 27, he calls Julie and almost proposes. They finish their conversation and Wayne's thoughts reveal that the reason he didn't become a police officer was so that Bruce Wayne can marry Julie and leave the crimefighting to his masked identity. It doesn't explain what happened from then on though.

Incidentally, Secret Origins #6 is also significant for being the only Batman story Marshall Rogers drew in between his original 'Strange Apparitions' run in the 70s and his return to Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight in 2000.

Yep you are right i just re-read my batman encyclopedia and it said that he made Hugo Strange turn her into a monster in one of her final appearances and then he promptly just dropped the character.Guess i just remember reading it wrong.

[Azrael52]

I thought he turned her into Leonard Malton.

[Sean Walsh]

Wikipedia has some more info on Julie Madison, if you're interested:

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

Julie Madison is a significant figure in the development of the Batman character precisely because of her failure to gain lasting significance within the narrative.

Wow. That's mindboggling. :p

I loved this little bit too...

In Legends of the Dark Knight #94, a group of people in an elevator discuss Batman. One of these is an eighty year old Julie Madison, who recalls her encounters with him in the 1930s. The others protest that he cannot be that old.

[Dr. Drake Ramoray]

Julie and her father both still appear in Matt Wagner's Dark Moon Rising books.