Burton had considered it ridiculous to cast a " bulked-up " ultra-masculine man as Batman, insisting that the Caped Crusader should be an ordinary ( albeit fabulously wealthy ) man who dressed up in an elaborate bat costume to frighten criminals.

Other prominent games developers include Julian Gollop ( Chaos, Rebelstar, X-COM series ), Matthew Smith ( Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy ), Jon Ritman ( Match Day, Head Over Heels ), Jonathan " Joffa " Smith ( Ping Pong, Batman: The Caped Crusader, Mikie, HyperSports ), The Oliver Twins ( the Dizzy series ), Clive Townsend ( Saboteur ), Sandy White ( Ant Attack, I of the mask ), Pete Cooke ( Tau Ceti ), Mike Singleton ( The Lords of Midnight, War In Middle Earth ), and Alan Cox.

Batman, starring Adam West as the Caped Crusader and Burt Ward as his youthful sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder, helped establish ABC as a TV force with which to be reckoned.

Batman escapes, but not before another confrontation with the Gotham police, and a citywide manhunt is now on for the Caped Crusader.

He is aware of the dual identity of Batman and is supportive of the Caped Crusader.

There is a reference to the book in Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader ?, as Batman lets himself fade into the afterlife he reminisces on the book and sets similar wording to Gotham City.

In 2012 Hasbro and PPW Toys have a plan to release Mr Potato Head in his Batman forum for the upcoming Christopher Nolan movie The Dark Knight Rises which comes out on July 20th, 2012, They are working together and are doing a tie-in to the upcoming movie, They are going to be making the toy and it's in development, The toy itself will be called The Dark Spud and will have Mr Potato Head dressed up as the Caped Crusader for the movie, He will include a cape, A mask, A utility belt, And of course a batarang to hold in his left hand, But also he was unveiled at the New York 2012 Toy Fair and was on display!

There were a total of 109 episodes and two backdoor-pilot episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, with Batman and Robin appearing in " The Dynamic Scooby Doo Affair " and " The Caped Crusader Caper.

Among these displays are the " Bat-Wave " warning signals, an alternate way of calling upon the Caped Crusader before the Bat-Signal went into service.

When the Riddler threatens to expose Batman's secret identity, however, the Caped Crusader mockingly labels it an empty threat, pointing out that if Riddler revealed the answer to the riddle " who is Batman?

Though defeated, Ra's does cause the exit of Batman from the JLA, who now distrust the Caped Crusader.

Kubert will also be illustrating the two-issue Batman story by Neil Gaiman entitled, " Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

While his brother Adam has returned to Marvel Comics following his three year deal with DC, Dan DiDio has confirmed that following " Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

*" Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

* " The Dark Knight " or " The Caped Crusader " for Batman ( also referred as " The Dynamic Duo " when paired with fictional sidekick, Robin )

Starting with issue # 59 The Brave & the Bold became, more specifically a Batman team-up book with the Caped Crusader as the book's main focus.

Conservative Minister Stockwell Day has referred to Holland as ' Perry Mason on Steroids ' and ' the Caped Crusader ' during their sometimes heated exchanges in the Public Safety and National Security meetings.

Strange administers it to Batman after the Giants capture him, saying it will work in 18 hrs, but despite being knocked out for over 17 hrs, the Caped Crusader saves himself by creating a drug that prevented any abnormal secretions from the pituitary gland with minutes to spare, after tricking two of the monsters into killing each other.

Even though he was affected by his device, the Caped Crusader manages to throw Mad Hatter several feet below in a glass rooftop.

He is apparently being manipulated by the Joker, attacking Batman when the Caped Crusader attempts to rescue police Commissioner Gordon from the Joker.

He helps Batman battle the Terrible Trio in a reluctant partnership after they killed their sensei of whom both he, the Caped Crusader, and the trio trained under.

In Bob Kane and Bill Finger's original meeting of Batman and Dick in 1940, the Caped Crusader was much more friendly and sympathetic towards him, and only jokingly threatened to put him across his knee when Robin took a risk-too-many while dealing with those who had killed his parents.

* Batman: The Caped Crusader

Jean-Paul Valley makes a cameo at Batman's funeral service in Neil Gaiman's 2009 story, Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader ?, a story which is metaphysical in nature.

Caped overcoats were popular for men during the Victorian era, with some caped Ulsters featuring multiple layered capes, and the Inverness coat ( both formal evening and working day variants ) had a cape.

Critic Nick Schager wrote, " It would be no surprise to learn that Richard Widmark was a big ' Batman ' fan, as his star-making screen debut in Kiss of Death as grinning, cackling psychopath Tommy Udo ( for which he received an Academy Award nomination ) seems heavily indebted to the Caped Crusader's arch-nemesis The Joker.

This series, the first Saturday Morning vehicle for the Caped Crusader, paired up new Batman and Robin adventures with old Superman / Superboy episodes.

Realizing that Black Spider intended to kill Black Mask one way or another to make way for his true employer, the Caped Crusader tracked both men to an abandoned theater.

The slayer of these creatures, The Caped Crusader, was aptly christened Sand-( bl ) eep and is believed to be single-handedly responsible for saving the race which is now known as the creator of ancient Mesopotamia-the Cradle of Civilization.

The team of Batman and Robin is commonly referred to as the Dynamic Duo or the Caped Crusaders.

Scarecrow is both addicted to fear and incapable of fearing anything except Batman, whom he compulsively seeks in order to ease his addiction after the Caped Crusader's apparent death.

Superman tries to convince Batman to leave, and his evasive attitude and refusal to answer questions leads Batman to punch the Man of Steel across the jaw ; the Caped Crusader's hand is nearly shattered.

The Pilgrim's reference is a basis for the Church of Zion, Jerusalem thesis of Bagatti ( 1976 ) and Testa, though the archeological evidence may suggest only a later Crusader church.

The group killed members of the Muslim Abbasid, Seljuq, and Christian Crusader élite for political and religious reasons.

Bethlehem — along with Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Sidon — was briefly ceded to the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem by a treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and Ayyubid Sultan al-Kamil in 1229, in return for a ten-year truce between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders.

A Crusader state centred round Acre survived in weakened form for another century.

Rifleman John Beeley was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for his actions during Operation Crusader.

They also carved out a place for themselves and their descendants in the Crusader States of Asia Minor and the Holy Land.

Though the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem would continue to exist for a period, its defeat at Hattin marked a turning point in its conflict with the Muslims and Arabs.

The Crusader force enjoyed early success against Shirkuh's troops, but the terrain was too steep and sandy for their horses, and commander Hugh of Caesarea was captured while attacking Saladin's unit.

Tyre, on the coast of modern-day Lebanon, was the last major Crusader city that was not captured by Muslim forces ( strategically, it would have made more sense for Saladin to capture Tyre before Jerusalem — however, Saladin chose to pursue Jerusalem first because of the importance of the city to Islam ).

Nonetheless the majority of the population remained Christian, allowing for a significant pool of Turcopoles to be raised in the Crusader armies.

The hilt of a sword formed a cross with the blade, so if a crucifix was not available, a Crusader could kiss the hilt of his sword when praying, before entering battle, for oaths and vows, and so on.

Unfortunately for the Crusader, English common law did not recognize his claim.

* Genoa, Venice and Pisa gain trading privileges from the Crusader states in return for their service during the conquest of the coastal cities.

With the cancellation of the U. S. Crusader, the Paladin remains the principal self-propelled howitzer for the U. S. for the foreseeable future.

Towards the end of the period of Crusader rule, in 1166 Maimonides visited Hebron, which he apparently thought lay east of Jerusalem, and wrote ,' On Sunday, 9 Marheshvan ( 17 October ), I left Jerusalem for Hebron to kiss the tombs of my ancestors in the Cave.

The Frankish connection remained an important consideration for Crusader Jerusalem, as the nascent kingdom depended heavily on manpower and connections from France, Germany, and Italy.

* Crusader was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

The civil wars started with the disputed succession after King Sigurd the Crusader, who died in 1130, and flared up at shorter or longer intervals for over a century.

54 effectives of ' L ' Detachment, Special Air Service Brigade ( largely drawn from the disbanded Layforce ) mounted a night parachute insertion onto two drop zones in Bir Temrad, North Africa on the night of November 16 / 17 1941 in preparation for a stealthy attack on the forward airfields of Gambut and Tmimi in order to destroy the Axis fighter force on the ground before the start of Operation Crusader, a major offensive by the British Eighth Army.

Shepard returned to Patuxent for a second tour of duty and engaged in flight testing the F3H Demon, F8U Crusader, F4D Skyray, and F11F Tiger.

On the southern face are the Hulda Gates — the triple gate ( which has three arches ) and the double gate ( which has two arches, and is partly obscured by a Crusader building ); these were the entrance and exit ( respectively ) to the Temple Mount from Ophel ( the oldest part of Jerusalem ), and the main access to the Mount for ordinary Jews.

The Byzantine desire to be seen as holding a level of suzerainty over all of the Crusader states was taken seriously, as evidenced by the alarm shown in the Kingdom of Jerusalem when John informed King Fulk of his plan for an armed pilgrimage to the Holy City ( 1142 ).