How long has anyone been a Batman fan?

[HarryCanyon]

Since i was 8 when i saw 89's movie 6 times in theaters, had nearly all the merchandise including Taco Bell cups to both CD soundtracks, watched reruns of the 60's show, had the VHS tape with NES game for christmas, read the comics and ate the cereal as well as i even got that bank.

I did saw the sequel when i was 11 4 times in theaters, had merchandise as well, ate the cereal and watched the animated show religiously. Too bad about Batman Forever which was a mixed film and Batman and Robin, just terrible but the animated movies with other animated shows "Batman Beyond" and "Justice League" were nice subsitutes for Schumacher's films until we got Nolan's movies.

[Thatman]

Since I can remember. It was my 'first love', and probably my single biggest hobby/interest even still.

When I was three, I was playing with my friends, stripped off most of my clothes, and used my grandmother's markers to color my skin green and draw question marks on myself. My mother was not pleased.

So Batman's been all-encompassing for me for a while. I grew up on the '60s show and Superfriends, and have stayed with it in every incarnation ever since - comics, movies, TV, figures, etc.

[krosfyah]

Been a Batman fan for as long as I can remember. so at least since 2 years old. Loved the Adam west reruns (though I thought they were new) and the movie too.He-Man took centre stage when it came out but Batman was always there too. 89 movie saw it 5 times in the theatre, saw returns once but I watched it on vhs until the tape wore out. in 89 i bought almost every shirt that came out with batman on it. Very disappointed by Batman forever and I REFUSED to see Batman and Robin, to this day I still haven't seen it.

[Dave-Man]

Don't know - a very long time. I remember the old Filmation Batman show was probably my first exposure. Haven't seen much of the Adam West show, but I remember Superfriends. Got back into Batman more in '89 after the movie came out.

[SLO-MAN]

I can't remember a specific age, but I've been a fan since I was a little kid.
My first exposure was to reruns of the Adam West show, and the Filmation cartoons and Superfriends.
The dark Batman came later when I saw the Burton movie on VHS. At the time I was surprised Robin wasn't in it since he was such a big part of the mythos. This led into The Animated Series, Returns etc...

Batman was always an all-encompasing character for me, so I don't hate Schumacher's movies as most everyone else does.
It's all Batman. He can be a dark, grim avenger of the night or a camped up deputized agent of the law. He can fight normal thugs, super criminals or aliens.
There is no other superhero (and yes, I consider him a superhero) so rich in diversity as Batman.

All that said, if I had to choose my favorite interpretation of Batman, it would be the Denny O'neil/Neal Adams version.

[Brian Ozone]

Batman was my first word back in 1978. I wouldn't go anywhere without my mego batman. Or do anything with out him as well. I had like 10 mego bat mans cause I kept screwng him up.

[Bonehead]

I've been a Batman fan my whole life or a s far as I can remember.


As a toddler I had a MEGO Batman and even Batman Underroos. Anybody remember those?


I remember religiously watching the Adam West Batman series in reruns. It ran 3 times a day! To this day my mother blames Adam West for my comic book and action figure collecting habits.

I was never a fan of the Burton / Schumacher films. I saw them but IMO the West Batman series will always be the best. One of the best days of my life was when I met Frank Gorshin, Caesar Romero, and Julie Newmar at a convention back in '89.

[TheShadow]

I've been a fan since 1989 when the Tim Burton movie came out. I was 6 at the time. My dad and his brother went to see it opening day to see if it was OK for the kids to see. My dad took me to see it the next day but my Uncle wouldn't take his son (and we were the same age). So kudos to my dad for being awesome!

I'm still a fan of the most all of the Batman media that is pre-Nolan. I don't dig the Nolan stuff.

[Firefly]

Since I can remember. Superfriends was probably my first exposure to him. I got into the comics around the time of the '89 movie.

[Dr Kain]

My first experience was when the Burton movie came out my mom turned on the Adam West show and I did not care for it. When the Burton movie came to VHS a few months later a friend brought it over and we watched it and I loved it. I had him bring it over for like 5 days straight before my day gave me enough allowance to buy my own copy, which I did, and I watched that a million times as well until BTAS came out. I tried to even watch the Adam West series afterwards, but I still could not stand it, but it was the only thing that sort of related to Batman on at the time (this was before BTAS), so I suffered through it until TAS hit. After that, I was a fan and loved nearly everything from TAS and even though I grew up in the 90s with the Knightfall stuff, Denny O'Neil, Len Wein, Neal Adams, and **** Giordano are my favorite Batman team, as they have the best comics, especially Denny. That is also why I love the Nolan stuff so much. Nolan must be a huge fan of the 70s stuff because that is how his version of Batman feels to me.

EDIT: I forgot about the Scooby Doo episodes with Batman, which I did enjoy.

[markatisu]

Since I became conscious of anything, being born in 1978 there was the Adam West show and Superfriends as well as the appearances on Scooby Doo

My dad had many of the old comics before I was born and so he has just sorta always been around for me and I have followed him since (Burton,BTAS,Nolan,video games, etc)

The only thing I think I have despised/loathed/hated was Batman and Robin. That was an piece of garbage and a waste of the Batman license. I really liked Batman Forever so its not like i had a bias against Schumacher, it was just a really horribly written and horribly acted movie.

[mightybuck]

not sure when my first exposure to batman was, but i've liked him as long as i can remember. i didn't have any of the comic books growing up, in fact i could count the number of comics i had on one hand, but i did watch and enjoy the adam west series and his guest appearances on scooby doo. i probably watched the various batman cartoons, although i don't have any memories of them. i also had a viewmaster reel that had a bunch of random slides. my favorite was a batman one. the funny thing is, i couldn't tell you what was on the slide now, i just know that it was my favorite one to look at.

[wyldman11]

I watched Superfriends and reruns of the Adam West show, I remember renting the heck out of the movie. Some of my earliest memories were of watching that, watching The Hulk and Spider-man.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

I have been a Batman fan since I received my first figure in 1982. It was the Mego Batman, my younger brother got the Robin figure. I loved that figure to death. I think it was the costume that sold me. I've been a fan since.

[TJRules]

Been a fan for a long time. Ever since my dad came home with a dozen comic books and poster from D-ick Sprang. (Can't believe I have to edit his name so it doesn't get starred out!!!!) Never got them signed though. Darnit. RIP DS.

[Dynamo of Eternia]

I've probably been something of a fan to some extent or another as long as I can remember.

I grew up watching the old 60s show before the '89 movie ever came out, and I had some Super Powers figures including Batman and Robin. Thought my interest increased around the time of the movie. I can't say that I'm a super die-hard Batman fan. I like the character a lot, and the animated series was great. I don't really follow the comics though. I'm aware of some major plotlines from the comic through friends of mine who were into it (i.e. Bain breaking his back), but I never followed them and still don't.

[Rhanen]

I've been a Batman fan since I was 3; so you may count me in for 32 years.

My father used to buy me some Mexican editions of DC Comics (Ediciones Novaro), mainly Batman & Superman, with ocassionally guest stars such as Green Lantern, Flash & Mister Miracle ("Maxisol"!).
Pretty much at the same time, 66's Batman, Super Friends and Superman & Batman from Filmation (folowed by Guy Williams "Zorro", my other great hero) were aired at national television, in a time when TV was like my second mother.
Also in 1978 Adam & Burt Ward visited Argentina and my father took me to a meet & greet with them at an expo. No such luck, although I can barely remember that there was a Batcave reproduction.
When I was 5, I had the 6" Batman Mego and the 4" Mini Mego Batman & Robin.

During the 80's, there weren't DC Comics published in Argentina till Burton's "Batman", which I watched like 3 times at the cinemas and got me back into dwelling everything that I had missed since Marshall Rogers & Irv Novick age (Crisis, Teen Titans, Nightwing, Jason Todd, Death in the family, Dark Knight Returns, etc) as a teenager.
I couldn't let it go since then

[NikeBoyRM]

I became a Batman's fan whit this cartoon:



Then, I loved him until now!

[spiritgunner]

I've been a Batman fan for most of my life. My first exposure to the Dark Knight was seeing the comics at my uncle's place. Since then, I've watched the reruns of the '60's series (which my sister is now recording for me off of Me-TV), have the comics (most of them from 1995-2005), watched just about all the movies either in the theater or on DVD (even the movie serials), etc. I even included him in a couple of fanfics years ago.

[JAG2045]

I've been a Batman fan pretty much all of my life, I was a kid as Batman Returns came out and Batman TAS was on every Saturday morning, plus in the summer holidays channel 4 UK would show an episode of the classic Adam West show every morning

Batman is still my favourite superhero and I enjoy almost every incarnation of the character (from Nolan/Burton to West and Schumacher), and Im still collecting ;-)

I really liked the Knightfall Saga, Year One, and pretty much anything by Timm/Dini. One year later to RIP saga was also good (though not so much the later morrison run) and though I havent been reading individual issues since the new 52 I am waiting to read the new series once the TPB gets released and cant wait for Dark Knight Rises (I have the poster as my desktop).

I have to say hands down the '92 animated series is my favourite version, growing up I collected the animated toys, watched and re-watched all the episodes on video (later upgraded to DVDs) I could get and started collecting comics originally by getting the ones based on the animated series (I still remember the very first issue I ever got was a great issue featuring Bane) and a UK comic also based on the animated series followed may years later by a UK title called Batman Legends where I got to read the HUSH storyline. Ive also enjoyed the newer animated shows (Brave and the Bold especially which is a great tribute to all things Batman)

Overall despite all the other things I enjoy collecting Batman is still my favourite and even now some 20 years later when I read any Batman issue from any decade I still hear Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill and all the other brilliant actors from B:TAS in my head

BATMAN AND ROBIN WILL NEVER DIE!

JAG2045

[Bri-Man]

since i was about 4 or 5 in the early 80's...there were reruns of superfriends and the new adventures of batman...plus i had the superpowers action figure

[Alexx]

I've been a fan since as soon as I could go to the basement and root through my Dad's comic book collection. He had a ton of DC stuff, so I saw lots of Superman too, but Batman was always the one that stood out to me. I also ended up reading Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns before I honestly should have, considering some of the stuff in there. Then, of course, we had the Adam West version movie on tape, so I had seen that a lot; then the 89 movie brought all of it's amazing goodness that burned into my brain. The Animated Series, though, was the real kicker. Watched that religiously. Don't own it yet, but I'd like to.

So yeah, Batman has been in my brain as far back as I can remember.

[bcbsdrg]

probably since i saw the 60s batman,at whatever age i was in reruns(4 or 5). Though i'm not totally faithful to batman,it comes in waves. I cheat on him sometimes with spiderman and x-men ocassionally,so my devotion to all things bat is not always there. So i guess i don't consider myself a true fan LOL.

[RocketPunch]

I first got introduced to the characters through watching the Adam West series when I was around 7 or 8 years old. It was a fun show, but I didn't really become a fan until I saw the 1989 movie. I think I was 11 or 12 at the time. It's still my favourite Batman film.

[hopewell]

Only recently. Since Batman Begins. Before that I hated the character. Too brooding. Too much a paranoid prick. Kind of a jerk. Now I think the current Batman comics are my favorite. I have all of the lego Batman minifigs and want to buy a batman shirt soon.