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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 6453955" data-attributes="member: 3649"><p>Originally, he seems to be all self-trained (then again his origin is like five panels long for decades). Later in the comics, it's more like it shows in Batman Begins: Bruce looks at being a policeman and a lawyer, and decides they are both too limiting, too concerned with the law over justice. So he spends several years being trained by some of the greatest martial arts masters in the world, the greatest criminologists and forensics experts, taking what they teach him and making a synergistic whole greater than the sum of it's parts. Due to writers being writers sometimes he starts this when he's in his early teens, sometimes after he drops out of college, etc, etc. He trained under Henri Ducard, various shinobi masters, Ted Grant (the former prizefighter and the vigilante Wildcat), Oliver Queen, etc, etc. Again, various writers have him train under various peoples. Ted Grant was not added until Ted was reconned as the definitive 'go to' guy for hand-to-hand training in the DCU, for instance. Alfred being a former WWII agent and aide to the French Resistance/RAF/MI-5/whatever  was something added in much much later, then slowly dropped as WWII became implausibly far away in modern times.</p></blockquote><p></p>