Wayne Enterprises

[Alexandra Wayne]

Hey all,
Does anyone know where I could find a graphic of Wayne Enterprise's corporate logo? It can be from the cartoon, the movies...anything.
Thanks much!
Alex

[M'ral]

I'll see what I can find. :)

[The Guard]

http://batgallery.topcities.com

Go here. It has one, and some for Arhkam, some GCPD police badges, etc...

[The Green Hornet]

Wayne Enterprises is the next Enron

not only does Bruce embezzle (the Watchtower, ALL of his toys, the cave stuff etc) but im sure he has an accounting firm in his pocket to make sure no one finds out


if only his board of directors knew of the shady business going on there.....

[Alexandra Wayne]

Thanks!!!
You guys are awesome! The logo is great!
Alex
PS: Does he embezzle the money, or does he just have piles of his inheritance cash lying around??

[The Green Hornet]

he admitted as much in Secret Origins

a line item in an order my eye-- this reeks of unethical, and perhaps illegal business habits

that station was a few hundred mil EASY

[M'ral]

As far as I know (I'm taking a college course in Business Law right now, but I haven't finished yet), as long as Bruce notified the stockholders of the purchase, it's perfectly legal. As Chief Executive Officer and (especially) majority stockholder, Bruce has the authority to make decisions within the ordinary business of his company as long as he notifies the other owners. Even a simple memo (for example, listing the Watchtower as a “line item on the aerospace budget”) is legally acceptable notification and, if anyone took Bruce to court over it, would probably be enforceable. It’s not his fault if the stockholders choose not to read the memorandum. Now if the Watchtower was a gift to the Justice League, Bruce would have needed the approval of the stockholders to transfer Wayne Enterprises assets to an outside party, but since Wayne Enterprises reserved ownership of the facility and probably makes use of data collected there, it’s an investment that Bruce, as CEO and majority stockholder, chose to make for the benefit of his company (the Justice League would be considered an incidental beneficiary after the fact and, therefore, unimportant and uninvolved in the decision).

The same could theoretically apply to Batman’s equipment, assuming that Bruce found ways to list it in the ordinary business of the corporation. Have you ever noticed that Wayne Enterprises often markets similar products to those Batman uses a few months after Batman gets them? Bruce gets the equipment he needs by having it developed and produced through Wayne Enterprises. He then purchases the equipment in his own name from his own company with his own private funds. This is how Ra’s Al Ghul found out “which wealthy Americans were amassing such materials as Batman might require”: Bruce Wayne bought it, not through his corporation, but with his own private funds. Wayne Enterprises stockholders can’t control what their CEO does with his own money. Bruce would probably have done the same with the Watchtower, except (1) he needed Wayne Enterprises's scientists, manufacturing and launching equipment, etc to carry out the plan, and (2) as Green Hornet pointed out, even Bruce Wayne doesn't have several hundred million dollars lying around in his basement.

Neither case could be considered embezzlement (unlawfully using money belonging to another for his/her own purposes). The Watchtower is an investment made on behalf of Wayne Enterprises and presumably with the full knowledge of its stockholders, and Batman’s equipment is purchased with Bruce Wayne’s private monies (inheritance, corporate salary, private investments, maybe even stock dividends). The only technically illegal thing Bruce does is privately buying materials and equipment under assumed names, and that has nothing to do with embezzlement. To tell you the truth, Bruce is too smart to do this stuff illegally. Why break the law when you don’t have to? ;)

Disclaimer: Please take this with a grain of salt, guys. I’m not a lawyer, and I haven’t even completed my Business Law course yet. I could be right, I could be wrong, I could be way off base and in over my head. If you really want to know about this stuff, ask a real lawyer. :)