So Bruce Wayne has no other family?

[Master Toon]

No grandparents? Cousins? Aunts or Uncles? I've never read a Batman comic so I wouldn't know.

[JAG]

Actually it recently turned out that he has a teenaged son he never knew about. His name is Damian Wayne and he is the new Robin. Plus Bruce adopted Dick Grayson and Tim Drake (The first and third Robins, respectively.)

[Shredhead]

I heard there was an Uncle Phillip and Aunt Harriat but there very rarely refranced anymore or even in continity as far as I know. I think Aunt Harriat appeared in the old 60's show.

[Silverstar]

I heard there was an Uncle Phillip and Aunt Harriat but there very rarely refranced anymore or even in continity as far as I know. I think Aunt Harriat appeared in the old 60's show.

Close.

Her name was Aunt Harriet Cooper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Harriet_Cooper); no such name as 'Harriat'. She was played by Madge Blake, and she wasn't Bruce's aunt, she was Dick's. Aunt Harriet moved into Wayne Manor to help Bruce raise Dick after Alfred's death.

[Shawn Hopkins]

Close.

Her name was Aunt Harriet Cooper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Harriet_Cooper); no such name as 'Harriat'. She was played by Madge Blake, and she wasn't Bruce's aunt, she was Dick's. Aunt Harriet moved into Wayne Manor to help Bruce raise Dick after Alfred's death.

She was also partially created so people wouldn't think Batman and Robin were gay.

[Silverstar]

She was also partially created so people wouldn't think Batman and Robin were gay.

That too. :sweat:

[Hobbes829]

in a special batman edition of wizard there was an article called "the 50 batman questions you've always wanted answered" answered by batman writers and editors, there was the question about any living relatives, here's the answer:

sure. we just don't know who they are yt. batman: shadow of the bat writer alan grant tells us bruce will be visiting some relations in batman: the scottish connection. A wayne famile reunion is held in scotland and bruce gets drawn into an ancient conflict between 2 rival clans.

[Shawn Hopkins]

in a special batman edition of wizard there was an article called "the 50 batman questions you've always wanted answered" answered by batman writers and editors, there was the question about any living relatives, here's the answer:

sure. we just don't know who they are yt. batman: shadow of the bat writer alan grant tells us bruce will be visiting some relations in batman: the scottish connection. A wayne famile reunion is held in scotland and bruce gets drawn into an ancient conflict between 2 rival clans.

Yeah, I have that hardcover. Can't remember how close the relatives were, though. Obviously not close enough to adopt Bruce when his parents were murdered.

Hey, if he's Scottish he probably has some of the same heritage as me, as Scots-Irish settled in eastern Kentucky heavily. That's pretty cool. You know, there's actually a guy named Bruce Wayne that lives on my holler in eastern Kentucky. I think he's a 500 pound disabled man, though, so not exactly the scourge of crime.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Study/4273/bat6.html

[Hobbes829]

Yeah, I have that hardcover. Can't remember how close the relatives were, though. Obviously not close enough to adopt Bruce when his parents were murdered.

Hey, if he's Scottish he probably has some of the same heritage as me, as Scots-Irish settled in eastern Kentucky heavily. That's pretty cool. You know, there's actually a guy named Bruce Wayne that lives on my holler in eastern Kentucky. I think he's a 500 pound disabled man, though, so not exactly the scourge of crime.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Study/4273/bat6.html
thomas and martha probably put in their will that in case of their death, alfred who they knew could take care of bruce and who bruce would trust, would become the legal guardian.

[Shawn Hopkins]

thomas and martha probably put in their will that in case of their death, alfred who they knew could take care of bruce and who bruce would trust, would become the legal guardian.

Yeah, that's probable.

[Brainatra]

In pre-Crisis comics, after Bruce's parents were shot and killed, he was raised by his uncle Philip Wayne. (This stood on both Earth-2----per several 80s flashbacks and the "Secret Origins" retelling of the Golden Age Batman's origin---and on Earth-1 in various stories.). Alfred pre-Crisis only began working at Wayne Manor at some point early in Batman and Robin's careers, not from Bruce's childhood as is the case in current continuity.

A late 60s story mentions as well Mrs. Chilton, Philip Wayne's housekeeper, who also helped raise Bruce. Unknown to Bruce, she was the mother of Joe Chill.

Post-Crisis, think Philip Wayne is still around (in a vastly diminished role, as Alfred raised Bruce post-Crisis); dunno about Mrs. Chilton (who was a one-shot character anyway...).

Another relative mentioned pre-Crisis was Silas Wayne, a distant elderly uncle of Bruce's who appeared in one 1958 story (thus Earth-1) as disappointed in Bruce (thinking, like everyone else, he was a vapid playboy). Silas died by the end of the story.

If ancestors count, on Earth-1 at least Bruce is a direct descendant of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne (a real-life historical figure): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Anthony_Wayne

-B.

[Ed Liu]

If ancestors count, on Earth-1 at least Bruce is a direct descendant of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne (a real-life historical figure): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Anthony_Wayne

More on this, courtesy of Comic Book Legends Revealed! (http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/04/16/comic-book-legends-revealed-203/) and also containing where the "Bruce" part of his name came from. A graphic novel by Alan Grant and Frank Quitely explores that corner of Batman's ancestry.