Batman Returns and The Comics

[DarkVengeance]

this is great, Ive never seen someone post so many comic influences from BR, there are quite a few!

[Paul (ral)]

This isn?t a comic book influence per se, but the plot about the Penguin attempting to become Mayor was inspired by two episodes of the old Adam West TV show: Hizzoner the Penguin and Dizzoner the Penguin.

Well, Burton is a fan of the 60's tv show.

[The Dark Knight]

These comic references are just fantastic. Really cool. Especially the cage, christmas present and penguins stuff.

[BatmAngelus]

WOW, excellent first post, Silver Nemesis.  The best was the penguins with explosives at the zoo.   

[The Dark Knight]

This kind of stuff really makes me appreciate Burton's Batman even more. If you look at it as the very, very first Batman - before his moral code, etc, it is fine.

[Sandman]

That's the thing we never got a third movie and never got to see him grow, mabye he would have started to develop a moral code?, sadly we will never know...Yet another reason to hate JS .

[The Dark Knight]

That's the thing we never got a third movie and never got to see him grow, mabye he would have started to develop a moral code?, sadly we will never know...Yet another reason to hate JS .

That's a cool thought. He begins a moral code in the third film.

[DarkVengeance]

I dont think Burton really payed attention to wether Batman had a moral code or not in the comics, its not like he was looking through Batman comics before filming started on 89 ( like Nolan did before filming BB), the only one that I know he liked and read was The Killing Joke.

[Paul (ral)]

I dont think Burton really payed attention to wether Batman had a moral code or not in the comics, its not like he was looking through Batman comics before filming started on 89 ( like Nolan did before filming BB), the only one that I know he liked and read was The Killing Joke.

Michael Uslan gave Burton the Steve Englehart/Marshall Rogers runs, the Neal Adams/Denny O'Neil runs (where Batman did not kill) and the first year of the Kane/Finger run (before the CCA, where Batman did kill) before production started.

It is true that he liked The Killing Joke the best.

[DarkVengeance]

Where did you get the info that he gave Burton those comics? Ive read pretty much everything and watched every documentary and have never heard that before.