The 18th-century frontier hero Tomahawk once discovered a gargantuan bat belonging to Morgaine le Fey inside what can be assumed would become the Batcave. The cave was discovered and used long before by Bruce Wayne's ancestors as a storehouse as well as a means of transporting escaped slaves during the Civil War era. The design has varied from artist to artist and it is not unusual for the same artist to draw the cave layout differently in various issues. There has been little consistency as to the floor plan of the Batcave or its contents. Over the decades, the cave has expanded along with its owner's popularity to include a vast trophy room, supercomputer, and forensics lab. The Batcave made its comic book debut in Detective Comics #83 in January 1944. The entrance was via a bookcase which led to a secret elevator. Like in the film serial, Batman's symbol was carved into the rock behind the desk and had a candle in the middle of it. In this early version the cave itself was described as Batman's underground study and, like the other rooms, was just a small alcove with a desk and filing cabinets. This illustration appeared in the Batman ' dailies' on October 29, 1943, in a strip entitled 'The Bat Cave!' Kane used this clipping as a guide, adding a study, crime lab, workshop, hangar and garage. Finger included with his script a clipping from Popular Mechanics that featured a detailed cross-section of underground hangars. The entrance was via a secret passage through a grandfather clock and included bats flying around.īob Kane, who was on the film set, mentioned this to Bill Finger who was going to be the initial scripter on the Batman daily newspaper strip. In 1943, the writers of the first Batman film serial, titled Batman, gave Batman a complete underground crime lab and introduced it in the second chapter entitled 'The Bat's Cave'.

Later, in Batman #12 (August–September 1942), Bill Finger mentioned 'secret underground hangars'. Originally, there was only a secret tunnel that ran underground between Wayne Manor and a dusty old barn where the Batmobile was kept.

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