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Batman is a 1989 superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name, and directed by Tim Burton. The film features Michael Keaton as Batman, as well as Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, and Jack Palance. The film is primarily known for depicting a darker and more serious version of the character rather than the more acknowledged Batman TV series from the 1960s. It takes inspirations seen by the work of Bill Finger and Bob Kane's stories from 1939.
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As imagined by Bob Kane, the comics wonder boy who dreamed him up, Batman had violent crime in his blood. As a young boy, he had witnessed the murder of his parents. And unlike other conventionally good-vs-evil superheroes with more spectacular or otherworldly talents, Kane's hero was always just a step away from criminal behavior himself.
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Batman creator, Bob Kane, noted that this series saved the Batman comic series from cancellation when the show revived the character\'s popularity. Despite this, most comic fans despised this series for stereotyping superheroes and comics as campy nonsense. Furthermore, soon after the show was canceled, the character\'s comic series took on a dark and deadly serious tone that was reminiscent of the original comics in the late 1930\'s as a reaction to the TV show\'s light touch.
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The character of Batman was created in 1939 by Jewish comic book artist Robert Kahn (24 October 1915-3 November 1998), who is better known by his adopted professional and legally-changed name, Bob Kane. Jewish comic book writer Bill Finger was the co-creator of the character, although he was not officially credited. The major, influential early comic book characters at both DC Comics (then known as "National Publications") and later at Marvel were created by predominantly by Jewish writers and artists. Yet Batman was clearly non-Jewish, as were nearly all of the characters produced by this generation of comics professionals. Like nearly all major superhero characters created during the 1930s and 1940s, Batman was based on a sort of "all-American" template, including having a vaguely but not overtly identified Christian background. Batman has, for example, been shown celebrating Christmas many times throughout his long history.
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Kane signed away any ownership that he might have in the character in exchange for, among other compensation, a mandatory byline on all Batman comics. This by-line did not, originally, say "Batman created by Bob Kane"; his name was simply written on the title page of each story. The name disappeared from the comic book in the mid-1960s, replaced by credits for the artists and writers who actually worked on the stories. In the late 1970s, at the same time as Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster began receiving a "created by" credit on the Superman titles, Batman stories began saying "created by Bob Kane" in addition to the other credits. Finger did not receive the same recognition. Although Finger did receive credit for other work done for the same publisher in the 1940s, he began to receive limited acknowledgement for his work on Batman in the pages of the comic book only in the 1960s, as a script-writer (for example, "Letters to the Batcave", Batman no. 169, Feb. 1965, where editor Julius Schwartz names him as the creator of The Riddler, one of Batman's recurring villains).
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Batman versus the Vampire (Detective Comics #31-32, 1939). Writer: Gardner Fox. Art: Bob Kane. Batman tries to rescue his fiancee, Julie Madison, from the clutches of a combined vampire-werewolf villain known as The Monk. It has been commonplace to compare early comics, especially Batman, to film noir. This story shows what a mistake this is. It resembles 1930's B-movie thrillers, horror movies and serials, NOT film noir.
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