Is Batman in his 40s?

[Lester C.]

The Nightwing trade listed Dick as 26. One year later would make him 27. So would that not make Batman at least 41 if we go by the standard fact that Batman is 14 years older than Dick?

[The Surrealist]

I thought Batman was perpetually 38-ish. He was always in his late thirties in the Golden and Silver age versions. What's changed?

[Lester C.]

I thought Batman was perpetually 38-ish. He was always in his late thirties in the Golden and Silver age versions. What's changed?

He became 29 sometime during the sliver age. I remeber that because Frank Miller pointed that out in the first Dark Knight Returns trade. And I just love your avatar.

[Trademark]

Everyone knows that Batman never ages.

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[Effect]

I thought he was at least getting close to 50. I wonder how long until they finally decide to deage him to be younger then Dick but still be Batman and explain it as a villian attack against Bruce Wayne to cover the public apperances. I mean the idea wouldn't be against the tone of the DC Universe would it?

[mattx110]

have ra's or talia de-age him as some plot to maintain the heir possibility thing, even though umm... we got damien... but shhh, it makes sense.

[The Shadow]

Everyone knows that Batman never ages.

'Nuff said.

He will ALWAYS be in and around 35-38 years old.

[Buried Alien]

To accommodate everything that he has supposedly done and been through since the beginning of his career, I'd say yes...he should be in his early forties.

That shouldn't be a problem; forty is the new thirty these days, especially for someone in top condition as Batman is.

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[Lester C.]

To accommodate everything that he has supposedly done and been through since the beginning of his career, I'd say yes...he should be in his early forties.

That shouldn't be a problem; forty is the new thirty these days, especially for someone in top condition as Batman is.

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They also changed how old he was in year one. The comic as written was 24 but now the offical line is that he was 18.

[Buried Alien]

They also changed how old he was in year one. The comic as written was 24 but now the offical line is that he was 18.

I don't like that retcon at all. A Batman who is now in his early forties is much more believable to me than a Batman who was just eighteen when he began his career.


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[Young Avenger]

I'm surpraise that DC didn't use the retcon punch to de-age Batman.

[Gaspard]

A related question - is the storyline Batman: Year Three in the continuity? Because if Year Three literally means Year Three of Batman's career... well ffs! Nightwing is already operating on his own in this one, and Jason has died etc.

[Buried Alien]

A related question - is the storyline Batman: Year Three in the continuity? Because if Year Three literally means Year Three of Batman's career... well ffs! Nightwing is already operating on his own in this one, and Jason has died etc.

I think BATMAN YEAR THREE has been superseded several times over since its publication in 1989, because at the time, it was the newest retelling of the story of how Bruce Wayne met Dick Grayson and how Dick became the first Robin.

BATMAN YEAR THREE was told in a series of flashbacks: parts of the story were set in the then "present" (i.e. the months immediately following Jason Todd's death), but other parts of the story were set years earlier...when Dick first became Robin (which at the time, was during the third year of Batman's career).

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[wes_rk]

I know this is probably waaaaay off, but here it goes:

let's say Bruce was 24 when he started.. 27 when Dick became Robin at age 13 (maybe?). 5 years later Dick becomes Nightwing (Bruce=32, Dick=18) and Jason (again 13) becomes Robin fairly quickly after that. Let's say Jason is Robin for about 2 years before getting killed by the Joker. So now Bruce is 34 and Dick is 20, Jason was 15.

Tim comes let's say a year later and becomes Robin, again at age 13 (Bruce =35, Dick=21 and Jason would have been 16). That's 8 years after the first Robin, so Tim was only 5 when Batman and the first Robin roamed Gotham, so he can easily remember that fact.

Now Tim appears to be somewhere around 17 OYL. So Bruce is now 39, Dick is 25 and Jason reloaded is 20.

That's as far as it could go without having Batman be 40, and just for the record I don't think 40 is that bad, in fact I think it makes Batman that much of an icon to be 40-ish and still kick major butt. It also adds the fact that all of the stories could have happened to him.


Anyways, I'm not even sure the timeline is correct or consistent to what has been depicted.

[Super Buddies Forever]

Batman works better as a character in his 40s. Honestly, what's the problem? James Bond is traditionally played by an actor who's in his 40s (or even 50s). Just training to be Batman alone would have taken several years (which is why Year One's "24 years" is much more reasonable than 18) and, since then, Batman has gone through four Robins, one of who has reached his mid-20s.

Even a 50 year old Batman wouldn't be unreasonable down the line. As the life expectancy gradually goes up, so should Batman be gradually aged.