Comics in which Batman kills

[gordonblu]

Who? Batman or Scooter?

[GothamStalker]

I think they're both candidates for Arkham. Heheh

[Silver Nemesis]

This is a great find, props for sure for finding this stuff and putting it up!

You?re very welcome. I thought the Bat-fans here might find this stuff interesting.

who the hell is skeeter and why the hell did batman stab her?

Skeeter was a vampire from a small town in South Carolina. Superman is vulnerable to magic and vampires are technically supernatural. So Skeeter was able to smack him around a bit before Batman staked her.

[Catwoman]

Skeeter was a vampire from a small town in South Carolina.

1. that answers that.

2. 

[johnnygobbs]

Skeeter was a vampire from a small town in South Carolina.

1. that answers that.

2. 

Should we be worried for you Catwoman?

[GothamAlleys]

Here's another addition

[BatmAngelus]

Technically, Doctor Death doesn't die in that issue, but that's still a good example of the character's attitude towards death at the time.

The Batman of today probably would go through the flames and try to save him.  This one watches him burn.

[GothamAlleys]

Although thats clearly accidental, its still a kill

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Rf9S3GkkeyI/SgLZ2SBeFxI/AAAAAAAAQHo/ODwjGJ2Us_E/s1600-h/mike+mignola+and+dean+raspler.+batman.+sanctum.+page.+005.jpg

[Silver Nemesis]

This thread needs bumping, so here are a few more victims of the Dark Knight to add to the list.

First of all, this is the aforementioned scene from Brave and the Bold #84 where Bruce Wayne kills a fighter pilot with a hand grenade.

And here's the scene Gotham Alleys mentioned from 'Sanctum' (Legends of the Dark Knight #84, November 1993) where Batman kills Lowther in self-defence.

And a few new ones.

The cover of Detective Comics #39 (May 1940) shows Batman punching a criminal off a high ledge on a construction site.

Here's one for the Boy Wonder. 'The Clock Maker' (Batman #6, September 1941) ends with Batman and Robin clinging to the face of a clock tower while the eponymous villain shoots at them through a window. Robin grabs the Clock Maker and hauls him out of the tower, sending him plummeting to his death.

Robin kills another criminal in 'Secret of the Iron Jungle' (Batman #6, September 1941), twisting the man's wrist around so that he shoots himself in the head.

Also in this story, Batman throws a criminal off an oil derrick.

In 'The Chain Gang Crimes!' (Batman #47, June 1948) Batman throws a criminal off a huge spherical gas tank.

In 'The Most Dangerous Twenty Miles in Gotham City' (Detective Comics #423, May 1972) Batman takes down two assassins. The first he uses as a human shield to absord the gunfire of the other. Its unclear if this assassin survives. The bullet seems to pass through his shoulder, but he appears lifeless in the subsequent panels.

The fate of the second assassin is less ambiguous, as Batman snares him with a grappling hook and hauls him off a water tower. Batman appears totally unrepentent afterwards, remarking: "Tough, Trooper Omega – but when you play deadly games, you can't cry 'fingers'!"

In 'A Monster Walks Wayne Manor' (Detective Comics #438, January 1974) Batman kicks Ubu onto a splintered railing. The actual impalement happens off panel, but Dr. Varnov is present to caption the incident: "H-he impaled himself on the splintered railing..." However, the artwork clearly shows that it was the momentum of Batman's kick that sent Ubu to his doom.

The Earth-Two Batman was responsible for the death of his wife, Selina Wayne, as depicted in 'Huntress: From Each Ending... A Beginning!' (DC Super-Stars #17, December 1977). During a fight with some criminals Batman kicked an opponent's gun, causing it to veer to the side and discharge. The resultant shot hit Catwoman, knocking her over a balcony and sending her plummeting to her death.

This event caused the Earth-Two Bruce Wayne to burn his Batsuit and retire as Batman. And in case there was any doubt as to Bruce's culpability in his wife's death, he openly acknowledges it in 'United We Fall!' (All-Star Comics #69, November 1977).

Batman tries to kill Cat-Man in 'Nine Lives Has the Cat' (Detective Comics #509, December 1981) by knocking him off a boat. He then stands by and watches as Cat-Man apparrently drowns. Of course Cat-Man's nine lives allowed him to show up again in later stories. But to all intents and purposes, Batman tried to kill him at the end of this story.

In 'The Doomsday Book' (Detective Comics #572, March 1987) Batman uses a dazed criminal as a human shield to protect himself from gunfire, sacrificing the criminal to save his own life.

In 'Infected' (Legends of the Dark Knight #84, June 1996) Batman tries several times to kill the villain, a hallucinating soldier who's been driven kill crazy by military experiments. He finally succeeds in killing the solider by shooting him several times with a handgun and knocking him off a dam. The Caped Crusader's internal monologue makes it pretty clear this was a deliberate, albeit regrettable, premeditated killing.

In Year One: Batman/Ra's al Ghul (2005) Batman intentionally kills two bad guys who are pursuing him on snowmobiles by firing a flaregun at a mountain and creating an avalanche that buries them.

And that's all for now. If anyone can think of any more, please add them to the list. Batman's victims deserve that small justice at least.

[Paul (ral)]

That's a hell of a bump! Brilliant!