![]() ![]() ![]() "Batman started out really dark and grim, he was killing people," Jim Fletcher, the Creative Director of DC Entertainment, said at the event. As the Golden Age turned to the Silver Age, Bruce Wayne's gritty demeanor started to fold into fluffy Americana, featuring wackier story lines and his sidekick, Robin the Boy Wonder. ![]() Early Batman was more a pulpy crime thriller than a collection of super hero heroics. He carried a gun and didn't hesitate using it to shoot down criminals. Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, the caped crusader was very unlike the icon we know now, 80 years later. In 1939, National Comics published Detective Comics #27, featuring the first appearance of Batman. "I was an artist possessed with a story and an artist doing a job," Miller said. All it took was a four issue-comic book miniseries. The comic veteran known for 300, Sin City, Daredevil and countless other dark tales, had a hand in reinventing the identity of Batman after Adam West had turned him into a joke. The 62-year-old veteran cartoonist was signing autographs for fans, juxtaposed between greeters in toy soldier outfits and ceramic statues of Paw Patrol. "I took a sanitized version of a tough character and took him closer to his 1940s roots," Frank Miller told Newsweek at an unveiling event for a black and white statue based on the suit Batman wore in The Dark Knight Returns at FAO Schwarz in Rockefeller Center. Frank Miller signing graphic novels of The Dark Knight Returns Warner Bros. ![]()
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