Batman: The Animated Series, Vol. 1

Batman: The Animated Series, Vol. 1

• BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES

The entire first season of the animated adventures of Batman.Warner Brothers’ Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995) remains a striking, stylized program that helped to revitalize the familiar comic book hero. Drawing on such diverse influences as Frank Miller’s graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns, the Fleischers’ Superman cartoons of the early ’40s, and contemporary Japanese animation, the filmmakers stress interesting designs and cinematography. The Caped Crusader prowls a sinister, Art Deco-styled world of tall verticals, sharp angles, silhouettes, searchlights, and grid-like shadows cast by window frames. Its visual pizzazz eclipses Filmation’s pallid kidvid, The Batman/Superman Hour (CBS, 1968), which ran off and on in various incarnations through 1981. Many of the same artists worked on the Batman animated features (e.g., Mask of the Phantasm (1993), Batman Beyond–The Movie (1999)), which display similar strengths and weaknesses. Ironically, Batman: The Animated Series lo

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