The Four Color Media Monitor

The Edmonton Journal talks about psychoanalyzing comics. On Batman, they say:

One of the most psychoanalyzed superheroes is DC Comics' Batman, a character Danny Fingeroth's Superman on the Couch describes as one of the most "humourless (and) obsessed" of his ilk. Designed by Bob Kane from the get-go to be the ultimate child of trauma, the young Bruce Wayne was orphaned brutally as a nine-year-old child. After seeing his parents murdered right in front of his eyes, Wayne was inexplicably abandoned by the larger social safety net, left alone with his increasingly dark (and morbid) thoughts in the care of an elderly family retainer in a large, shadowy mansion at the outskirts of Gotham City.

Bruce Wayne may be humourless, but when written well, he's got humanity, and that's what made him work so well during the Bronze Age when Denny O'Neil was doing the main writing. That's something they should've noted here, but didn't.

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