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Batman 89 & Superman 78 getting sequels from DC Comics
February 17, 2021 by:
BATMAN and Richard Donner s 1978
Superman: The Movieare getting sequels in comic book form. DC Comics has announced that both properties will continue via the comics this July. Batman 89 brings back Batman screenwriter Sam Hamm and he will team up with artist Joe Quinones to pull on a number of threads left dangling after the events of the 1989 film. The book will star Michael Keaton s Batman and it also promises to reintroduce Selina Kyle/Catwoman, portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in 1992 s
Batman Returns. The new comic will introduce the first Burton-esque Robin and Harvey Dent will also appear in full Two-Face form as the Billy Dee Wiliams version of the character from the 1989 film.
Batman Returns transformed the image of the Caped Crusader. Prior to those films, most viewers still associated the Dark Knight with the Adam West show. Don’t get me wrong,
Batman ’66 is awesome in its own right, but by 1989, the comics had long moved on from treating the characters like a cartoon.
Burton’s take built on stories such as
The Dark Knight Returns and injected a whole bunch of psychological complexity into this world, depicting Bruce Wayne as traumatized and tormented, the Joker as a homicidal artist and Catwoman as a whip-wielding dominatrix. The movies were massive hits, too, though the director’s third entry never happened due to marketing partners complaining that Danny DeVito’s Penguin was difficult to sell to children (and to be fair, he was pretty gross).
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Batman (1989) are coming to the world of print with a pair of cinema-inspired comic books from DC, the publisher confirmed today. They won t just be screenplays translated into comic form, but entirely new stories set within the respective cinematic universes.
Rob Venditti (
Hawkman) and Wilfredo Torres (
BANG!) are tackling the Man of Steel (played in the 78 film by Christopher Reeve), while Sam Hamm (the original co-screenwriter of Burton s Gotham-based adventure) and Joe Quinones (
Howard the Duck) take on the Caped Crusader (famously played in the 89 feature by Michael Keaton).
Resolving certain plot threads left dangling by its progenitor,