THE BRAINSTORMS

The Beagle Who Became Pennyworth! Alfred Pennyworth, known mononymously as Alfred to the Waynes and to the vast majority of Batman comic readers, is an iconic aspect of the Batman mythos. This is an inarguable fact, an inextricable aspect of the Batman story on equal footing with a Batcave, the murder of his parents, and more. The butler who had to raise Bruce, when his parents were no longer able to. So how come it takes him so long to show up? Alfred Beagle, the original v