I recently filled out a few gaps in my Don Newton DETECTIVE COMICS run, and this was revealed in DETECTIVE 501-502.


Way back before he was Bruce Wayne's butler, he was a British commando in World War II France, where he and Mlle. Marie (a French resistance fighter) had a shared adventure, and hooked up. Decades later, this story was done (April and May 1981) that revealed they had a daughter out of that union.

All right Alfred!

Mademoiselle Marie is a DC war character who began appearing in STAR SPANGLED WAR STORIES with issue 84 (August 1959).

I first saw her in an 80-page giant SGT. ROCK'S PRIZE BATTLE TALES, that featured just about all of DC's recurring war characters at the time.

Shortly after Knightfall there was a story about Alfred having a kid he didn't know about. I stopped reading Bat books about that time so I don't know where they went with that story.

Alfred really gets around!

Anything to prove he doesn't live up to his last name. I suppose.

Pennyworth.


With all those illegitimate kids to provide for, maybe Penniless.

But obviously not Penisless!

Please stop talking about Alfred's junk.

Alfred's wingman, Batman!

The covers for DETECTIVE 501 and 502

Plus a blog, showing representative pages.




Ahh, that famed stiff upper lip!