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In Next Week's Batman, We Will Discover Bruce Wayne's Real Name (SPOILERS)

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Bruce Wayne, international playboy billionaire, inheritor of the Wayne fortune, with the superpower of being very rich. And creating the Batman identity, a masked vigilante patrolling the streets of Gotham with the kind of hhigh-tech solutions that could end poverty in the city but instead is used to beat those who turn to crime because of poverty.

Anyway.

We've always known him as Bruce Wayne, but I understand that in next week's Batman comic by Tom King and David Finch, we will discover his real name.

No, not Bruce Wayne.

But Bruce Thomas Wayne.

Thomas Wayne was Bruce Wayne's father, and in the Flashpoint series, became Batman after his son's death.

 

In previous comic books, he has been known as Bruce Anthony Wayne in Batman: Holy Terror.

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Bruce Foster Wayne – Batman Chronicles #21.

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and Bruce Thomas Wayne – Batman Adventures #14 (2004).

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All these are alternate universe versions, however. And he certainly won't be Bruce Avril Wayne either.

But it's that final one which is becoming canon in the DC Universe this week. Bruce Thomas Wayne. After his dad…

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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