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On with the show. We've wasted way too much time discussing magical negroes and tragic mulatas and over-intellectualised mumbo-jumbo whatsoever.
The time: 40 to 35 years ago. John Mayhew in his 20s directs "The Black Glove" movie, starring Mangrove Pierce and Marsha Lamarr, Mayhew's 5th wife. Mangrove and Marsha have an affair. She gets pregnant and a boy is born. Mayhew finds out the baby isn't his, has his wife killed and frames Mangrove Pierce for the murder. The Waynes provide Mayhew with an alibi. Pierce is arrested and the baby boy is given for adoption. He temporarly lives with the Waynes before getting a new home.
30 years ago (1977, May 9th). "Gotham's Hurt missing". Hurt was a philantrope just like Thomas Wayne. He even ended up adopting a boy Thomas Wayne previously sheltered. He named him Simon. Simon Hurt. But where is he now?
27 to 25 years ago. Mangrove Pierce is released on parole for good behaviour. He adopts or reassumes the name Joe Chill. "Mangrove Pierce" was probably an alias, common among actors, like Pennyworth's "Alfred Beagle". He resents the rich and powerful ("And then you look at all this privileged jerks, these doctors and lawyers and millionaires and their trophy wives..."). Since Mayhew is in seclusion and nowhere to be found, Chill goes after the Waynes to have his revenge. He kills Thomas and Martha, but lacks the guts to do young Bruce ("I shoulda shot the kid right there -- Three for three - But he was like my own boy. The son I lost.")
He says "3 for 3", not "3 in 3"; "3 for 3": Thomas, Martha and Bruce for Marsha, his son "Simon" and himself.
Circa 15 years ago. Joe Chill, formerly known as "Mangrove Pierce", is now a mid-ranking crime boss, having built a legitimate front, the "Land, Sea, Air Transport Company". Batman haunts him for a whole month until he breaks in despair and kills himself. Somewhere down the line, Simon Hurt learns everything about his past, including the fact Batman lead his real father to commit suicide. And from who does he learn it? From the Black Glove. Simon Hurt is his bet on Evil; Bruce Wayne is his bet on Good. But who is the Black Glove? Simon Hurt is now resentful of the rich and powerful, just like his father before him.
15 to 10 years ago. Dr.Simon Hurt is a psychologist for the army and does a deep research on the Batman. He learns everything he can about him and everything else FROM him, through the 10-day isolation chamber experiment. He creates the 3 replacement Batmen and plants hypnotic trigger words on all 3 of them and in Batman as well (Zur-En-Arrh). He now knows Batman as no one else.
Some months ago. Batman goes through the Thorgal ritual in Nanda Parbat to purge himself from the demons, only to find out later those demons were the only thing putting him together. He enters the temple in Nanda Parbat to reintegrate the demons again. He returns to Gotham fully reinvigorated and puts an end to all crime in Gotham. That's when things start to happen: the 3 replacement Batmen reemerge; Batman remembers the Black Casebook and the Isolation Chamber experiment; John Mayhew returns; Dr.Hurt returns.
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