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Detective Comics #27.You see, later comic-book adventures of Batman and sidekick Robin suggested the two characters weren’t just partners but partners—as you’ll see below—and it wasn’t long before people came to the understandable conclusion that Bruce Wayne is a hero in the streets and a queero in the sheets.In the 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent, a book frequently criticized for homophobia, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham called out “a subtle atmosphere of homoeroticism which pervades the adventures of the mature ‘Batman’ and his friend ‘Robin’” and warned that the “Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.”Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Wertham even quotes a “young homosexual” who saw that homoeroticism and imagined a gay future for himself. “I found my liking, my sexual desires, in comic books,” that young man said.