Jerry Robinson, who also worked with Finger and Kane on the strip at this time, has criticized Kane for failing to share the credit. He recalled Finger resenting his position, stating in a 2005 interview with The Comics Journal:

Batman vol. 3 Annual #2 (January 2018) centers on a romantic storyline between Batman and Catwoman. Towards the end, the story is flash-forwarded to the future, in which Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle are a married couple in their golden years. Bruce receives a terminal medical diagnosis, and Selina cares for him until his death. [118] Abilities Skills and trainingBatman is strongly disciplined, and he has the ability to function under great physical pain and resist most forms of telepathy and mind control. He is a master of disguise, multilingual, and an expert in espionage, often gathering information under the identity of a notorious gangster named Matches Malone. Batman is highly skilled in stealth movement and escapology, which allows him to appear and disappear at will and to break free of nearly inescapable deathtraps with little to no harm. He is also a master strategist, considered DC’s greatest tactician, with numerous plans in preparation for almost any eventuality.

Many actors have voiced the Caped Crusader, but the bulk of the animated Batman work over the years has gone to two actors: Olan Soule and Kevin Conroy. Snyder, Scott( w), Capullo, Greg( p),Miki, Danny( i)."Batman: Endgame Part Six" Batman,vol.2,no.40(June 2015). Norm Breyfogle became a cover artist for the main Batman title with issue #450, in " The Return of the Joker" storyline, a sequel to " A Death in the Family". Writer Alan Grant transferred from Detective Comics to the main Batman title with issue #455 (October 1990). Their first story arc together, with Breyfogle as both cover and interior artist, was "Identity Crisis". [59] The story followed directly from their final arc on Detective Comics, "Rite of Passage." [60] The three-issue "Identity Crisis" culminated in Tim Drake officially becoming the new Robin, with a redesigned costume, in issue #457 (December 1990). Breyfogle later pointed out that " Neal Adams was the one who designed the costume. The 'R' symbol and the staff were all that was really mine." [61] [62] Tim Drake then starred in the five-issue miniseries Robin [63] before returning in Batman #465 (Late July 1991) for the story "Debut", depicting the new Batman and Robin team's first official mission together. Grant left the main Batman title with issue #480 (Late June 1992) for his own ongoing Batman title, Batman: Shadow of the Bat, where he was again initially partnered with Breyfogle. Also, Bale was crucial to the alchemy in Nolan’s second Batman feature, The Dark Knight. That film is generally considered the benchmark in the superhero genre that all other movies about caped do-gooders are compared to nearly a decade later. It is also the only superhero movie to win an acting Oscar, for Heath Ledger’s iconic Joker, and is considered responsible for why the Academy now usually nominates 10 films instead of five for Best Picture. This occurred after The Dark Knight was egregiously snubbed in 2009. Will Arnett Four more Annuals were published from 2006 to 2011, again with the numbering continued from the previous series. [150] In 2012, a new Annual series was begun with a #1 issue. [151] Content and themes [ edit ]Joshua Williamson became the new writer of Batman in December 2021 with issue #118, [144] along with Jorge Molina as the new artist. Williamson's seven-issue run consisted of the story arc The Abyss and two issues of the crossover story Shadow War. Starting in 2006, Grant Morrison and Paul Dini were the regular writers of Batman and Detective Comics, with Morrison reincorporating controversial elements of Batman lore. Most notably of these elements were the science fiction-themed storylines of the 1950s Batman comics, which Morrison revised as hallucinations Batman experienced under the influence of various mind-bending gases and extensive sensory deprivation training. In Batman and Son, Morrison re-introduced the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul, Damian Wayne, to continuity, who had been raised by his mother in the League of Assassins. A son of Wayne and Al Ghul had previously appeared as an infant in the non-canon Son of the Demon. In the storyline The Three Ghosts of Batman, Morrison expanded upon the gun-wielding imposter Batman from his first issue on the series, introducing two more imposter Batmen, all former police officers. [64] [65] Morrison created an apocalyptic possible future in Batman #666, where Damian Wayne has adopted the role of Batman following his father's death, but unlike Bruce Wayne, having no issue with killing criminals. Following this story, Morrison reintroduced a number of Silver Age characters such as Knight and Squire, El Gaucho, and Man of Bats in The Batmen of All Nations, laying the groundwork for their future work on Batman Incorporated.

George Clooney’s movie career was just taking off when he was cast in 1997’s Batman & Robin, with his breakthrough performance coming just the year before in Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk Till Dawn. Producers probably felt they pulled off a major coup landing the soon-to-be mega-movie star. Those producers, along with Clooney, may regret that decision now. Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 229: "No longer happy with Jason Todd's copycat origin of the original Robin, editor Denny O'Neil used the Earth-changing Crisis on Infinite Earths maxiseries...to retroactively alter the continuity of Robin's origin as well. With the help of writer Max Allan Collins and artist Chris Warner, O'Neil shaped Jason Todd into a street-smart orphan."

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Batman & Robin was a disaster, rife with camp, terrible puns, and those infamous Bat-nipples. Clooney once joked that he helped kill the franchise. The actor also called the movie “a waste of money.” Brubaker, Ed( w), Gaudiano, Stefano( p), Shanower, Eric( i)."Joker Tips His Hat!" Batman,no.600(April 2002).