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According to Who's Who
'85 edition the Batcave is located beneath the grounds of Wayne
Manor. The cavern was discovered by accident by Bruce Wayne when
he fell through a rotted floor in the old manor barn. Wayne
equipped the cave with the latest in scientific crime fighting
equipment and computers. Within the Batcave are Batman's Batcopter,
Batplane, Batmobile, and Bat-boat. Entry to the Batcave from
within the manor is through Bruce Wayne's study behind a old
grandfather clock. From the comics it's a winding staircase but
from the classic Adam West Batman entrance to the cave was by a
batpole where Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson would slide down and be
instantly transformed into the Caped Crusaders Batman and Robin.
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Batcave image from DC
Comics 1985 edition of Who's Who
Batcave Books
The Batcave
has been a very prominent part of Batman's mythos always being
an important part of almost any Batman movie or TV interpretation.
Media:
Movies: 1943 &
1949
Batman movie serials
Batman
- The Movie 1966 starring Adam West
Batman1989
Batman
Returns 1992
starring Michael Keaton as Batman & Jack Nicholson as the
Joker
Batman
- Mask of the Phantasm animated cartoon 1993
Batman
Forever 1995 starring Val Kilmer as Batman ( Just my opinion
but I thought this one was the best one.)
Batman
& Robin 1997 starring George Clooney as Batman
Batman Begins starring Christian Bale gives us the creation of
the Batcave.
Television: Batman
tv series 1966-1968 starring Adam West
cartoons: The Batman/Superman Hour 1968 The
Adventures of Batman 1969, Superfriends 1973 with
the voices of Olan Soule & Casey Kasem (american top 40, voice
of Shaggy on Scooby Doo) as Robin, Adam West takes over as Batman
in 1984 on the SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
Adam West and Burt Ward returned together as Batman and Robin in
1977 on the cartoon series
The New
Adventures of Batman on CBS (* who could forget Batmite
who also starred on this series) Later became the Batman/Tarzan
Adventure Hour.
Batman the Animated Series 1992
- Kevin Conroy as Batman
Batman Beyond 1999 - new Batman takes over with help of the
old Batman. Justice
League 2001
Batcave Images
Batcave 1966 TV show starring Adam West and Burt Ward.
Batman Forever Batcave and Batmobile
starring Val Kilmer
Modern Batcave 2005 Christian Bale
Batman Forum
Batcave Comic
History
Originally, there was only a secret tunnel that ran
underground between Wayne Manor and an old barn where the
Batmobile and Batplane were kept. Later, in Batman #12
(August-September 1942), Finger mentioned "secret underground
hangars". In 1943, the writers of the first Batman movie
serial gave the Caped Crusader a complete underground crime
lab and introduced it in the first chapter entitled "The Bat's
Cave". Bob Kane, who was on the movie set, mentioned this to
Bill Finger who was going to be the initial scripter on the
BATMAN Daily Newspaper strip. Finger included with his script,
a clipping from Popular Mechanics that featured a detailed
cross section of underground hangars. Kane used this clipping
as a guide, adding the crime lab, stalactites, stalagmites and
bats. Thus, the Dark Knight's creators introduced the
definitive Batcave in the Batman "dailies" on October 29,
1943; and in January 1944, the Batcave made its comic book
debut in Detective Comics #83
Discovered and used long before by
Wayne's ancestors as a storehouse as well as a means of
transporting escaped slaves during the Civil War era.
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