the Extra-Terrestrial, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Rain Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Top Gun, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Back to the Future Part II, Crocodile Dundee, Fatal Attraction and Beverly Hills Cop.

Of the " Significant Seven " chosen by The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History ( 1989 ), Marvel owns Spider-Man and Captain America and DC owns Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel and Plastic Man.

Superman: The Man of Steel Annual # 3-" Unforgiven "-an Elseworlds tale Jor-El convinces the Science Council to relocate selected Kryptonians to Earth, somewhat retold this same tale, with the introduction of Batman.

Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with Batman: Year One, George Pérez's relaunching of Wonder Woman in Gods and Mortals, and John Byrne's reboot of Superman in The Man of Steel all took place shortly following Crisis on Infinite Earths, and changed substantial elements of the characters ' backstories.

" homages the cover to Crisis on Infinite Earths # 7, with a sorrowful Aquaman holding the badly-injured body of Batman as Green Arrow, Plastic Man and Captain Marvel look on in shock.

Also that month, Adams drew his first superhero story, teaming with writer Gardner Fox on the lighthearted backup feature " The Elongated Man " in Detective Comics # 369, the flagship Batman title.

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.

Quarry, who had acted in various programs on ABC to this point, including ' Batman ', ' Adam-12 ', ' I Dream Of Jeannie ' and ' The Six Million Dollar Man ', also did boxing commentary for ABC's " Wide World Of Sports.

He also voices Quantum Ray in Cosmic Quantum Ray and Plastic Man in Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

He joined Rowan Atkinson in his Spider-Man spoof Spider-Plant Man, as a disgruntled Batman, jealous of Spider-Plant Man's success.

A song based on the character titled " The Riddler " was performed by rapper Method Man, and was featured on the Batman Forever soundtrack.

He is known for his nonlinear narratives and countercultural leanings in his runs on titles including DC Comics ' Animal Man, Doom Patrol, JLA, The Invisibles, Action Comics, All-Star Superman, and Batman, and Marvel Comics ' New X-Men and Fantastic Four.

They accepted his proposals for Animal Man, a little-known character from DC's past whose most notable recent appearance was a cameo in the Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series, and for a 48-page Batman one-shot that would eventually become Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.

The term remake applies to films which use a previous film as its main source material, often reusing the same storyline while updating times and places to match contemporary settings, such as 1998's A Perfect Murder or 2001's Ocean's Eleven, whereas the term reboot is ascribed to film series such as Police Story ( rebooted in the 2004 film New Police Story ), Batman ( 2005's Batman Begins ), James Bond ( 2006's Casino Royale ), Star Trek ( the 2009 Star Trek film-though still in the existing Star Trek canon, but in an alternate universe ), Spider-Man ( 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man ), and Superman ( 2013's Man of Steel ).

Her music has been featured in a number of film soundtracks including How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Lost & Delirious, Batman & Robin, Love Jones, Love & Basketball, Talk To Me, Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls, The Best Man, Higher Learning, Down in the Delta, The Hurricane, Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, and Soul Men.

Titles like Batman: The Dark Knight Returns ( 1986 ), Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

He also appeared in two spoof drama series, Tales of the Rodent Sherlock Holmes, in which he played Holmes with Kevin as Dr Watson, and Ratman, a Batman spoof with Kevin as his sidekick, " Pink Bucket Man ".

Superman, Batman & Robin, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, Green Arrow, Plastic Man, and several other heroes were no longer extant at that point in history, and were thus never Squadron members.

" where he, along with Doctor Fate, Aquaman, Black Canary, Black Lightning, Fire, the original Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, and Red Tornado temporarily gave their powers to Batman, turning him into Bat Monolith so he could battle the omnipotent Equinox.

The very novelty of the Elongated Man stories was that unlike most superheroes, including the Detective Comics Batman, Ralph Dibny solved mysteries, often challenging the reader to do the same.

* The Elongated Man appears in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode " Journey to the Center of the Bat " voiced by Sean Donnellan.

In the teaser, he works with Plastic Man and Batman to stop Baby Face.

People who grew up here have fond and nostalgic memories of childhood Saturday matinees, complete with weekly episodes of Batman and Super Man.

In 1985, DC Comics named West as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great for his work on the Batman series.

The Christopher Nolan Batman movies, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Doctor Who franchises have each had two nominations, but no wins.

Bolland's Joker fascination stemmed in part from his having " recently seen the excellent silent movie The Man Who Laughs ," and he therefore wanted to do a " Joker story with the Batman as a more distant, peripheral character.

*" Fuck You " ( Lily Allen song ), previously released under the titles " GWB ", " Guess Who Batman " and " Get With the Brogram "

( Who was complimenting Batman on the design of his Batarang.

Later that year, she also appeared in The Man Who Laughs ; the creators of " Batman " based the appearance of their character " the Joker " on the titular protagonist in this film.

Murphy can be heard on film soundtracks including all six Star Wars films ( his first role as Principal Trumpet in the LSO ), Superman: The Movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Gangs of New York, Johnny English, Reign of Fire, a solo in Mr. Holland ’ s Opus, Philadelphia, Batman, the Alien movies, Frankenstein, Gladiator, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, We Were Soldiers and many more.

He appeared in television series including Doctor Who, Bottom, The Bill and Poirot, and films including Never Say Never Again ( 1983 ), Batman ( 1989 ), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ( 1989 ) and a credited role as Private Crowe in Aliens ( 1986 ).

There the similarity ends, however ; Gwynplaine is an embittered hero, while the Joker is a psychopathic criminal. In the 1970s, Bob Kane acknowledged the inspiration for the Joker, and it was later explicitly referenced in the graphic novel, Batman: The Man Who Laughs.

Comic book artist Brian Bolland said that watching The Man Who Laughs was one of his inspirations for drawing the graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke ( 1988 ).

* In a 2011 issue of Batman and Robin, writer David Hine introduced a deformed French supervillain named the Man Who Laughs.

It was either introduced after the Batman's first encounter with the Joker in Batman: The Man Who Laughs ; or during the " Prey " storyline in Legends of the Dark Knight.

The Long Halloween was one of three noted comics that influenced the 2005 feature film Batman Begins, the others being Batman: The Man Who Falls and Batman: Year One.

By the episode " The Man Who Killed Batman ," Bullock's respect for Batman was such that he was visibly saddened by the news of the vigilante's apparent " death " at the hands of Sidney " Sid the Squid " Debris.

He was mentioned in the last page of Miller's Batman: Year One and has a one panel appearance in the Catwoman Year One Annual and also in Batman: The Man Who Laughs and Batman and the Monster Men # 1.

" Goldstein later ranked The Man Who Laughs # 24 on a list of the 25 best Batman graphic novels.

Don MacPherson of The Fourth Rail felt that The Man Who Laughs " rob the Joker of some of his mystery " but said that Brubaker and Mahnke " capture the chilling nature of the Joker's insanity and bloodlust, not to mention the intensity of the Batman.

Mahnke also worked on the critically acclaimed prestige one-shot Batman: The Man Who Laughs with writer Ed Brubaker.

* Batman: The Man Who Laughs, graphic novel, # 1 ( 2005 )

Batman: The Man Who Laughs is tied directly into the ending of Batman and the Mad Monk, in which Gordon reveals the warehouse of corpses.

A retroactive continuity change appears between the Batman # 450-451 story line The Return of the Joker and the graphic novel one-shot Batman: The Man Who Laughs.

The Man Who Laughs is a retelling of the first appearance of the Joker, a few months after the Red Hood's plunge into the chemicals, tying the story into both Batman: Year One and The Killing Joke.