Batman #8: The Story Of Batman

by Scott E. Peterson

This early chapter book featuring Batman and the story of how he came to be a superhero has forty pages and full-color, comic-book-style illustrations.

Kids will love this adventure-filled story featuring a favorite and timeless superhero--Batman, The Dark Knight!

Once, Bruce Wayne was the luckiest boy in Gotham City. He had two loving parents, a wonderful home, and even a butler. Then one night, Bruce's parents met an awful end, and Bruce was left all alone. This is the story of his journey to find his place in the world and his special secret identity--Batman!

Genres: Childrens, Superheroes

40 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1995

About the author

Scott Peterson got his start in comics as an editor on the Batman line of comics, working with the legendary Dennis O’Neil. He edited DC’s flagship title, Detective Comics, and launched the first of the the Adventures sub-genre of comics, The Batman Adventures. He later went on to edit for WildStorm, where he oversaw such titles as WildCats, Midnighter, A God Somewhere and North 40, as well as Scooby-Doo and Looney Tunes. As a writer, he has been published by Disney, Scholastic, Golden Books, HarperCollins, and DC Comics, including a four-year run as the regular writer of The Gotham Adventures. He is the author of Batman: Kings of Fear with art legendary artist Kelley Jones, and the original graphic novel Truckus Maximus.

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Reviews

[Courtney]

I am always weary of "The Story of Batman" books due to the fact that each say the same things as all of the others, except they all have some sort of twists in them that made them different.

In this story, you hear the details of why Bruce Wayne chose bats as his inspiration for his disguise. As a young boy, Bruce fell into an under ground bat cave where he was trapped until his father could save him. With this information, this short-story showed more into Batman's history than many have before, thus helping to bring the story more to life.

Batman novels by Super DC Heroes are clean and wholesome. I never have to worry about what my child my hear and learn when reading these novels to him, they never disappoint and I am always able to say that justice prevails through every trial that the hero must face.

[Rosa Cline]

This book takes you to 'how' Batman became Batman. How he traveled all over the world all the various things and people he encountered and studied under to learn all the various things he studied. Then he combined all the things together to make things better. He knew he was gonna have to be even better because the evil men not only was evil but they were smart too. This was a really nice book to learn about 'who' Batman was and how he became. Even my adult special needs autistic son paid attention throughout this book.

[Kelly]

I really liked how it told the whole background story of Batman, clearly something I'd never heard before. It was also told well and made more interesting with the pictures, which is always the point of them - to add to the story, not just be there.

[Cana]

Mommy says: Cana picked this one out for herself.

[Sydney Conrad]

A superhero book for beginning readers that explains how Batman became so awesome.

[Susan]

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