In addition to comics, it was designed for DC properties in other media, which was used for movies since Batman Begins, Superman Returns, and the TV series Smallville, Justice League Unlimited and The Batman, as well as for collectibles and other merchandise.

* Batman Forever ( designed radically different envisioning of the Batmobile ; design not used in the film )

A tried-and-tested method for presenting newspaper comic strips, the 2003 DC Elseworlds story Batman: Nine Lives also used this method-although unlike those titles, Vertical is designed to be read vertically, and not horizontally.

The PCWs were definitely not designed to play video games, although some software authors considered this a minor detail, releasing games like Batman, Head Over Heels, and Bounder.

The World's Greatest Superhero line, The Elastic Superheroes line ( a MINT Elastic Batman figure actually sold for over 15, 000. 00 in 2006 ), the Wonder Woman doll line, the Cher doll ( as well as certain rare Bob Mackie designed outfits ), and the Kiss dolls are deemed as prized collectibles.

* The All-New Batman: The Brave and the Bold (# 11 ; 2011 ): Batman goes back in time to 1879 Gotham to stop an earthquake machine designed by Ra's Al Ghul.

When Batman fails to save the life of a young girl held for ransom, he decides to try a new experimental drug designed by her father called Venom.

In Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne it is revealed that Wayne Manor was designed by Nathan Van Derm for Darius Wayne, forming a stylized " W ", although the additional gardens that existed at the time the manor was built add on to this symbol to create the image of a bat.

Batman then goes with Ra's to search for Dick and Talia ; in the end, it is revealed that Talia loves Batman and that the entire kidnapping is a setup designed by Ra's as a final test of Batman's suitability as an heir.

also suffered a decline in ratings due to a change in format designed to appeal to Batman fans.

The new satellite is an orbiting Watchtower working together with The Hall, a building located in Washington D. C. paid for by Batman and designed by Wonder Woman and John Stewart.

It starred Hawk-Owl and Woody, two characters who were purposefully designed as blatant parodies of Batman and Robin.

Kidd is as a fan of comic book media, particularly Batman, and has written and designed book covers for several DC Comics publications, including The Complete History of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days, and the aforementioned Jack Cole and Plastic Man.

He also designed Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross and wrote an exclusive Batman / Superman story illustrated by Ross for the book.

In 1996, Kidd designed and wrote Batman: Collected.

Using the new ' Bat-Wraith '- a robot designed to ' replace ' Terry as Batman -, Bruce intervenes in Hush's attempt to kill Catwoman.

The layouts of this version of the Waynes ' murder is designed to resemble Frank Miller's Batman: Year One.

Among the most successful of these was Batman: Arkham Asylum ( 2009 ), which was released by Rocksteady Studios to critical acclaim ; review aggregator Metacritic reports it as having received 92 % positive reviews.

It was followed by the sequel Batman: Arkham City ( 2011 ), which also received widespread acclaim and holds a Metacritic ranking of 94 %.

* The present-time scene where Batman / Bruce is cornered by Detective Bullock's SWAT Team adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

* The role of Jim Gordon in Batman Year One being one of the few who doubts that Batman is a threat and is replaced at first by Ethan Bennett.

* There are also a few scenes in Seasons 1 and 2 as well as The Batman vs Dracula film where Batman / Bruce is being hunted down and then cornered by the GCPD's SWAT Team in an abandoned building.

* In the final act of Batman Begins, while being cornered by the GCPD at Arkham Asylum Batman uses a high-frequency device to attract his bats from the cave.

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

File: Children dressed as Batman and Robin, 1966. jpg | Children dressed as Batman and Robin, inspired by the campy hit Batman TV series ( 1966 )

Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.

He is known for his roles in two Batman movies, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, and has had minor roles in Saved by the Bell, Ally McBeal, McMillan & Wife, and various other series since the 1970s.

The remaining fragments are wrapped in lead and hurled into the sun by Superman himself, except for one fragment, which Superman gives to Batman.

Luthor is assisted by the extreme unpopularity of the previous administration's mishandling of the Gotham City earthquake crisis ( as depicted in the No Man's Land storyline in the Batman titles ), and his own seemingly heroic efforts to rebuild Gotham.

Ironically, Batman ultimately learns that the entire debacle was the fault of Luthor alone as he attempted to take control of Gotham by forging deeds for the land in his name, which results in Bruce Wayne severing all commercial ties between the U. S. government and his company, Wayne Enterprises, in protest of Luthor's election as President.

Batman, who had previously forbidden any attempt to unseat Luthor from office by force, led the storming of the White House.

This was predicated by an attempt on Luthor's part to link Superman to a kryptonite asteroid that is hurtling toward Earth, claiming that he had ' evidence '- which he declined to share while claiming that it would make the public laud his actions if they knew it-that the asteroid was being drawn to Earth by Superman, offering a billion dollar reward for Superman's capture that pitted Superman and Batman against an army of villains, all of whom they defeated.

Others included a wooden double out and back roller coaster called Villain, a Bolliger & Mabillard floorless roller coaster called Batman Knight Flight and an Intamin suspended impulse shuttle coaster called Superman Ultimate Escape.

In 1994 Magic Mountain added what two other Six Flags parks already had, a Bolliger & Mabillard inverted looping roller coaster called Batman The Ride ( which other Six Flags parks also added in the coming years ).

* Batman: La Fuga-a steel Bolliger & Mabillard inverted roller coaster, identical to the Batman: The Ride series of roller coasters

During this period, they also began to experiment with cutting-edge comedy concepts such as the original ( unreleased ) Filet of Soul and Jan & Dean Meet Batman.

Jan & Dean Meet Batman ( Liberty LRP-3444 / LST-7444 )-( JB )

After the construction of the AT & T Building ( commonly known to locals as the " Batman Building ") in 1994, the downtown area saw little construction until the mid-2000s.

The eight other shows ( The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Archie / Sabrina Hour, Young ( Space ) Sentinels, Fabulous Funnies, Batman & The Super 7, Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam, and Sport Billy ) lasted one season or less.

* The top 15 highest-grossing film series of the decade are ( in order from highest to lowest grossing ): Harry Potter-film series, Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean-film series, Spider-Man-film series, Shrek-film series, Ice Age-film series, Transformers-film series, X-Men-film series, Batman-film series ' Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Star Wars Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, The Matrix-film series ' The Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions, The Chronicles of Narnia-film series, Mission: Impossible-film series ' and The Mummy-film series.

Some of Anderson's superhero novels include Enemies & Allies, about the first meeting of Batman and Superman and ' The Last Days of Krypton ', telling the story of how Krypton came to be destroyed and the choice two parents had to make for their son.

Due in large part to unfavourable UK tax laws for inward investment in the UK film industry, the 1990 ′ s were precarious and witnessed an all-time low in British film production generally, but many large-scale productions such as Tim Burton ’ s Batman Returns and three further Bond films ( GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies & The World Is Not Enough ) kept Pinewood ticking over.

John Byrne later worked this aspect into his non-canonical story Superman & Batman: Generations.

In the two live-action movies Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, he was played by Chris O ' Donnell.

In the reality of Superman & Batman: Generations, the Guardians revealed that Alan Scott's power ring was actually a Green Lantern ring despite its apparent weakness to wood after Hal Jordan successfully harnessed it against Sinestro, realising that the ring actually had no weaknesses except what the user believed it possessed ; the Green Lantern Corps were vulnerable to yellow only because they believed the Guardians when they were told about this weakness, and Alan's ring's weakness to wood was caused when he was taken by surprise and struck on the back of the head with a wooden block during his first time using the ring.

The Spectre was given his own title, premiering with a cover date of December 1967, while almost simultaneously making a second appearance in The Brave & the Bold # 75 ( Jan. 1968 ), this time teamed with Batman.

Superman and Batman cosplayers at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo 2012

While working on ER, he started attracting a variety of leading roles in films including Batman & Robin ( 1997 ) and Out of Sight ( 1998 ), in which he first teamed with long-term collaborator Steven Soderbergh.

Clooney was then cast as Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin, which was a moderate box office success, but a critical failure ( with Clooney himself calling the film " a waste of money ").

High-profile failures included Birds of Prey ( inspired by the Batman mythos which premiered with an impressive 8 share ), Tarzan, Jack & Bobby, The Mountain, Jerry Bruckheimer's Just Legal, Marta Kauffman's Related, and the Rebecca Romijn vehicle Pepper Dennis.

The website garnered national attention in 1997 with the release of Batman & Robin.

Linus William Roache ( born 1 February 1964 ) is a British actor, probably best known for his roles as Michael Cutter on Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Thomas Wayne in Batman Begins.