List of characters killed by Batman

A list of characters killed by the DC Comics character Batman.
Name	Issue	Cause of death	Resurrected later?
* Alfred Stryker	
*Detective Comics Volume 1 #27,The Case of the Chemical Syndicate	
*Punch to the face from Batman, causing him to fall through a guardrail into a vat of acid.	No
* Ricky	
*Detective Comics Volume 1 #28, The Bat-Man	
*Batman kicks him off a rooftop. The leader of the gang confirms his death.	No
* Jabah	
*Detective Comics Volume 1 #29, The Batman Meets Doctor Death	
*Batman lassos Jabah's neck and seemingly strangles him, though it's possible he died in the conflagration caused by Batman's attempt to kill Doctor Death. Jabah's death is confirmed in the next issue.	No
*Mikhail	
*Detective Comics Volume 1 #30, The Bat-Man	
*As Mikhail leans out of a window to try to shoot Batman, the caped crusader swings down from above on a silk rope and kicks him in the head, causing the goon's neck to snap.	No
*Unnamed driver	
*Detective Comics Volume 1 #31, Batman versus the Vampire, Part 1	
*Batman throws a gas pellet into a car, causing the driver to go off course and hit a tree. The death is likely but not confirmed.	No
*Mad Monk
*Dala	
*Detective Comics Volume 1 #32, Batman versus the Vampire, Part 2	
*Batman shoots both vampires dead with silver bullets.	No
*A security guard
*Unknown number of crew members of the Scarlet Horde's dirigible
*Professor Carl Kruger	
*Detective Comics Volume 1 #33, The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom	
*Batman is shot by Kruger in the villain's hangar. After Kruger leaves to fetch the last remaining death ray to finish off Batman, Batman manages to incapacitate a guard and swap clothing with him. Kruger then reduces the unconscious guard to ashes.
*Batman crashes the Batplane into Kruger's dirigible, causing it to explode. Kruger only spots Batman to have parachuted, meaning the blimp likely went down with all of its passengers, leaving an unknown number of casualties.
*Batman throes a gas pellet at Kruger, causing him to fall asleep at the controls of his plane. Kruger's body is reported on the radio to have been recovered from the bay.	No
*Duc D'Orterre	
*Detective Comics Volume 1 #34, Peril in Paris	
*After attempting to strangle the mad Parisian botanist, Batman allows his car to careen off the side of a bridge.	No
* Unnamed Mongolian
* Sheldon Lenox	
* Detective Comics Volume 1 #35, The Case of the Ruby Idol	
* Batman kicks this goon of "Sin Fang" onto the blade of his compatriot.
* After exposing the fake Sin Fang as Sheldon Lenox, Batman throws the ruby statue of Kila at Lenox, hitting him squarely in the face and knocking him out a window. Lenox falls to his death.	No
* 5 people	 	 	
* Leopard	
* Batman Volume 1 #232, Daughter of the Demon	
* Batman snaps the neck of a trained leopard that was attempting to maul him.Daughter of the Demon - Denny O'Neill & Dick Giordano - Batman Volume 1 #232 - June 1971 - National Periodical Publications, Inc. - Page 11 - Retrieved 7 March 2024	No
* Mason Sterling	
* Batman Volume 1 #240, Vengeance for a Dead Man!	
* After being reduced to being just his brain by Rā's al Ghūl, Sterling tricks Batman into pressing a self-destruct button, engulfing him in flames and ending his suffering.Vengeance for a Dead Man! - Denny O'Neill & Irv Novick & Dick Giordano - Batman Volume 1 #240 - March 1972 - National Periodical Publications, Inc. - Page 17 - Retrieved 7 March 2024	No
* Rā's al Ghūl
* Professor Markewitch
* Grind
* Unknown number of members of the Crimson Sun satellite	
* Batman Volume 1 Annual #8	
* When al Ghūl attempts to use a satellite to cleanse the Earth of those he deems impure, Batman is forced to order a United States Army general to launch missiles at the satellite. Batman subsequently assumes remote control of al Ghūl's escape shuttle, directing it into the path of the satellite's ray weapon, reducing the Demon to ash. Batman, Robin, and Talia board the shuttle, leaving behind all of al Ghūl's subordinates aboard the satellite as it continues to be bombarded by missiles.	Yes (Rā's al Ghūl)
 	 	 	
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