Bane | |
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Promotional art for Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993).
Art by Glenn Fabry |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993) |
Created by |
Chuck Dixon Doug Moench Graham Nolan |
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Alter ego | Dorrance (first name unknown) |
Team affiliations |
Suicide Squad Secret Society of Super Villains Secret Six The League of Assassins |
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Bane is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character's origin was in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993), and was created by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, and Graham Nolan. Known for his mix of brute strength and exceptional intelligence, the character is often credited as being the only villain to have "Broken the Bat". IGN's list of the Top 100 Comic Book Villains of All Time ranked Bane as #34. Bane was portrayed by Robert Swenson in the 1997 film Batman & Robin, Tom Hardy in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises, and was voiced by Doug Benson in the 2017 film The LEGO Batman Movie.
Chuck Dixon, Graham Nolan and Doug Moench created the character for the Knightfall storyline, although it is unsure what elements were introduced by each of the two writers (Dixon and Moench). Dixon wrote the character's first appearance (Vengeance of Bane), with art by Graham Nolan. It is also unclear how much input was provided by Denny O'Neil (veteran writer of the Batman books, then Group Editor for the Batman family of books, and author of the novel adaptation of Knightfall). O'Neil had previously created Bane's birthplace of Santa Prisca in The Question and the drug Venom in the storyline of the same name (published in the pages of Legends of the Dark Knight #16-20, and later reprinted as a trade paperback). In the pages of Azrael, O'Neil introduced Bane's perception of Venom as both an addiction and the weakness responsible for his earlier defeats.