Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Mukutanga kwa1939, kubudirira kwaSuperman muAction Comics kwakakurudzira vapepeti paNational Comics Publications (yaizova DC Comics) kukumbira mamwe magamba makuru emazita ayo. Achipindura, Bob Kane akasika "Bat-Man". Mubatsiri Bill Finger akayeuka kuti "Kane aiva nepfungwa yehunhu hunonzi 'Batman,' uye aida kuti ndione mifananidzo yacho. Ndakaenda kwaiva naKane, uye akanga anyora mufananidzo wairatidzika zvikuru saSuperman ane rudzi rwe... tights dzatsvuka, ndinodavira kudaro, ane majombo... asina magirovhosi, asina magandeti... ane chifukidziro chiduku chedomino, achizunguzika patambo. Yaiva nemapapiro maviri akasimba akanga ari kubuda kunze, achitaridzika semapapiro ebate. Uye pasi payo paiva nechiratidzo chikuru... BATMAN". Kapu yakafanana nemapapiro e-bat yakakurudzirwa naBob Kane, akafuridzirwa semwana naLeonardo Da Vinci's sketch ye ornithopter inobhururuka mudziyo.Finger akakurudzira kupa hunhu chifukidziro panzvimbo yeiyo yakapusa domino mask, cape panzvimbo pemapapiro, uye magurovhosi; akakurudzirawo kubvisa zvikamu zvitsvuku kubva kumucheka wepakutanga. Finger akati akafunga zita rokuti Bruce Wayne nokuda kwezvakavanzika zvomunhu wacho: "Zita rokutanga raBruce Wayne rakabva kuna Robert Bruce, mutsigiri weScotland. Wayne, ari mukomana anonakidzwa, akanga ari murume womurombo. Ndakatsvaka zita raizoratidza kuti kwaiva nekoloni. Ndakaedza Adams, Hancock... ipapo ndakafunga nezvaMad Anthony Wayne". Akazoti mazano ake akafuridzirwa naLee Falk ane mukurumbira The Phantom, mutori wenhau wemupepanhau wemupepanhau uyo Kane aizivawo.Kane naFinger vakatora tsika yemazuva ano yema1930 kuti vafuridzirwe maererano nezvakawanda zveBat-Man kutaridzika, hunhu, nzira, uye zvombo. Zvimwe zvakanyorwa kare zvakanyorwa mumabhuku, mumakomichi, mumapepanhau, uye mumashoko ezveupenyu hwaKane pachake. Semunhu ane mukurumbira ane hunhu huviri, Batman aive neakafanotangira muScarlet Pimpernel (yakagadzirwa naBaroness Emmuska Orczy, 1903) uye Zorro (yakagadzirwa naJohnston McCulley, 1919). Kufanana navo, Batman akaita mabasa ake esimba muchivande, akadzivisa kufungidzirwa nokuramba ari oga mu...  Mubvunzo: Ndiani wavakafunga nezvake?
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