"playboy" [Was: article on the name "America"] (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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I'm not able to search the comic books from work, but the newspaper
strip is available on N'archive and other online sources.  Oddly enough,
though, just about all relevant search combinations

"Bruce Wayne" + playboy
"Bruce Wayne" + socialite
"Bruce Wayne" + millionaire

don't start returning useful hits until 1966, when the TV series
started.


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>         In the initial story, from 1939, Bruce Wayne was described as
a
> "socialite."  I'll see if I can find when they started calling him a
> "playboy"; it was not too far along.
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> John Baker
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> I wouldn't think of ignoring BW.  Was he described as a "millionaire
> playboy" from the beginning?  Or a "millionaire socialite"?  Or just a
> "millionaire"?
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> JL
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> >        I don't think you can ignore the influence of millionaire
> > playboy Bruce Wayne, surely the most famous playboy of them all.
> It's
> > not always clear just what kind of "playing" Wayne does, but his
> status
> > as a playboy seems to include personal wealth; high society
> connections;
> > single status (i.e., neither married nor an exclusive relationship);
> and
> > a reputation for frivolity, including a perceived love of parties
> > (though he often misses them or leaves suddenly) and lack of serious
> > interests.  (This last is quite true:  Although Bruce Wayne, as
> Batman,
> > does take a deep interest in crime and justice, he largely ignores
> > everything else, including his company, Wayne Enterprises.  Compare
> Tony
> > Stark, a thoroughly committed industrialist.)
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> > John Baker
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