San Francisco Becomes Gotham To Make 5-Year-Old’s Make-A-Wish Come True

Five-year-old Miles, who successfully fought leukemia, will get his wish of becoming a Batkid.

The event is the culmination of a youngster’s fertile imagination, the efforts of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the power of social media.

About 12,000 people have signed up to help make the boy’s fantasy of being a caped crusader come true, thanks to the feel-good story going viral on the Internet. They will cheer on the pint-size champion as he foils elaborately staged, nefarious plots and captures evildoers throughout San Francisco, uh, Gotham..

Andrew Farago, curator of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, reached out to cartoonists and DC Comics, asking for Batman-related memorabilia and original artwork for the boy.

The first to respond was Graham Nolan, who drew the Batman series for much of the 1990s and is co-creator of the Bane villain character. “And the next day, he completed this amazing drawing for Miles that has Batkid versus Bane,” Farago said.

Nolan signed it: “For Miles, a real superhero!”

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.