and man-sex!

It was never very explicit in the comics. Not even one issue where Robin dreams that Bruce is holding a big bowl of bananas.

Tho, there was that one issue with the Joker constantly talking about giving Batman a boner. Then again, everyone in that issue was talking about boners, usually the Joker's. Makes me wonder what was so interesting about the Joker's boner's. That issue alone could've won a pulitzer prize.

OK, to start, let's clear up one thing; Bob Kane LOVED the ladies and often used is connection to Batman to get a LOT of them, especially during the height of bat-Mania in the 1960s. Bob Kane, so not gay.

Two men are acknowledged to have created the Bat-Man- Bob Kane and Bill Finger. Kane's father was a lawyer and got a killer contract from the head of National that only credited Kane. Finger was told he'd get to work on the book as his end of the deal. It's a raw deal for Finger, but like so many of the Golden Age creators, he was not looking at comics as a long-term career. He was also a drunk, so that might have played into it as well.

Many "writters" listed in the "articule" (that red line means it's not spelled correctly) helped shape the Bat-Mythology, but it was Kane and Finger there at the beginning. Without them there is no Bat-Man. Without the writers who followed, perhaps there would have been no longevity for the character. Like any character who thrives decade after decade, there are many cooks adding new spices to the stew.

Not evary one youses spel checkg.

I never said he was. Tho...

Maybe, one night, he and Kane, working late, got drunk and ... things happen.
Sure, they weren't gay... they were "Bi-curious", and the booze helped them unleash their passions on one-another. Next day, they created Robin.

It was never very explicit because Batman wasn't written to be gay. There are panels that can be taken that way, but with so much Bat-material out there, I'm sure there are panels that could be interpreted any number of other ways as well. People will read into the stories what they want to read into them. In this case, the Dr. Wertham was trying to make a case that comics were bad for the youth, and contributed to all sorts of juvenile delinquency. Of course with that kind of attitude, the way he read the stories was bound to be tainted!

Robin's character was added to the Batman stories to make them appeal more to kids, not to add an implied love interest. Taking Robin as a love interest would have not only made Batman gay, but a pedophile. No matter how you feel about the former, I hope we can all agree that the latter is not something admirable, or a facet that the writers were trying to add to Batman's character.

The writer has it absolutely correct at the end: "Nevertheless, this much is certain: a character locked in any banal romance, either with Dick Grayson or Rachel Dawes, hardly seems believable as someone willing to endure the deprivations and burdens required of the Batman." Batman isn't gay...he doesn't have time (or really, the mindset) for any sort of real love interest, particularly an ongoing one like what Dr. Wertham and the US government would have had us believe happened between Batman and Robin.

The third picture down is disturbing.