Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy is helping commemorate the 80th birthday of his childhood hero, Batman, the caped crusader, who helped Leahy win a ban on the export of land mines.
This Thursday, March 28, 2019, photo provided by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., shows Leahy in a mirror and the 80th anniversary edition of a book commemorating the superhero Batman. Leahy, who wrote the forward for the book, has been a Batman fan since first reading the comic books as a child growing up in the 1940s in Montpelier, Vt. Leahy also has made brief appearances in a number of Batman movies. Vermont U.S.
Saturday is the 80th anniversary of when Batman first appeared in the Detective Comics edition released March 30, 1939. Earlier this year DC Comics published an 80th Anniversary coffee-table book and on Wednesday DC released the 1,000th issue Batman comic book issue. In the Leahy, who was born a year after the first Batman comic was released in 1939 said Batman, a millionaire who turned into a fully human superhero after his parents were murdered, turned to crime fighting and in the process helped people, mostly children, cope with unsettling times in the world of the 1940s and 1950s.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Leahy said he began reading Batman comic books when he was a child in the early 1940s. One local comic-book seller in his hometown of Montpelier even knew to tap on the window of her store to let the young Leahy know the latest edition had arrived as he walked by.
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