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Kerry Mcdermott
Daily Mail
August 5, 2013
- Erotic Lives of the Superheroes imagines Batman as an ageing homosexual
- In Marco Mancassola’s book Batman and Robin are in a relationship
Batman was gay and enjoyed an ‘extreme’ sex life, the author of a new book has claimed.
With his short-lived dalliances with women and the fact that he spends most of his time with a muscular male sidekick, Marco Mancassola writes that he was in fact in a relationship with Robin.
Speculation over Batman’s sexuality has been rife among comic book fans for decades and in Erotic Lives of the Superheroes, Mancassola writes about batman’s penchant for one night stands and ‘extreme’ sex after the spark between the couple dwindles.
‘Batman has always had a very dark side,’ Mr Mancassola told The Independent.
‘And it shouldn’t be a shock that my version of this character indulges in weird forms of fetishism and extreme sex.
The author, who said narcissism was Batman’s ‘inner abyss’, added: ‘He let his only real love story miserably fail because he is in love with the mystery of youth – that inaccessible fleeting kind of spirit that he sees in the eyes of his young male and female pick-ups.’
The book also explores the personal lives of Batman’s DC Comics colleagues Superman, Mister Fantastic and Mystique in New York in the early 21st Century.
The author said he had no intention of offending anybody with his portrayal of Batman in his book, which has been well-received by critics.
The homo-erotic elements of Batman’s adventures with Robin have not escaped the attention of fans in the past, with Grant Morrison, who has written Batman stories for DC Comics, declaring: ‘He’s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay’.
In 2006 DC Comics reinvented Batwoman as a lesbian.
