Snag in the fanfic fabric
So just after completing the first draft of the first part of my Clark-Bruce fanfic, I decided to go look at canon materials as research for facts. Seems I’ve got the facts all wrong and it’s bothering me.
I’ve postulated that Batman would be active and fighting crime a few years before Superman, and that he would be a few years older than Clark. Clark in the Smallville context is 16 or 17 years old, and I was figuring Bruce at 22 or 23 having been active for a year or so.
Well, I went back to Batman: Year One by Miller and Mazzuchelli. I think that’s canon. According to this version, Bruce was 25 when he first put on a cape. And someone makes a comment to the effect that “you don’t have to go all the way to Metropolis to find a man of steel” which indicates pretty clearly that Superman was running around and publicly known by then.
Of course, this is fanfic, plus Smallville is already a non-canon variant. Still, it’s disappointing to have my pet theory blown.
Yes, I’m a geek. Shut up. Now to see if I still have a copy of The Untold Legend of the Batman or John Byrne’s Man of Steel miniseries.