Comic Book Influences on Tim Burton's Batman (1989)

[Paul (ral)]

Yeah, all the talk during 89 was TDKR, not Year One.

[Azrael]

Wow... I also never knew how Batman 89 captured elements of those early comics. Excellent article.

[Atila Santos]

Tim Burton Meet the HQs?

[batass4880]

One part of B89 that might have been comic book influenced was the scene after Batman cut the Joker's balloons and after stepping off the float Joker casually shoots Bob. This reminded me of a page from Detective Comics #475, AKA "The Laughing Fish", where the Joker pushes one of his men in front of a moving truck after he asks an innocent question.

[Paul (ral)]

This reminded me of a page from Detective Comics #475, AKA "The Laughing Fish", where the Joker pushes one of his men in front of a moving truck after he asks an innocent question.

Also, remember the part where the Penguin shoots his goon for asking an innocent question

"Isn't that a little.....errrrr?"

"NO! It's a lot errrrr!"

[Sandman]

HAha i love that bit .

[batass4880]

This reminded me of a page from Detective Comics #475, AKA "The Laughing Fish", where the Joker pushes one of his men in front of a moving truck after he asks an innocent question.

Also, remember the part where the Penguin shoots his goon for asking an innocent question

"Isn't that a little.....errrrr?"

"NO! It's a lot errrrr!"

Oh yeah, I never thought about that! 

[The Dark Knight]

Wow. That's all I can say. Batman 89 really is faithful to the very early Batman, more than I thought.

[Sandman]

You need to have more faith in Tim Burton, he did care about his Batman movies and that's why they held up after all this time. Unlike another director that totally ruined his movies because he didn't care about the character or the movie.

[The Dark Knight]

Judging from these comic references, if you take Burton's Batman as the very early Batman, it is pretty dead on in what it sets out to achieve. It isn't really the modern Batman at all.