🎞️: Warner Bros. teaser for Tim Burton’s 1989 film “Batman”, December 1988. This June marks the 34th anniversary of the release of Tim Burton’s “Batman”. After fans and critics alike were concerned about the casting choices of both Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne’s Batman and Jack Nicholson as Jack Napier aka The Joker, Warner Bros. decided in late 1988 to rush a trailer which played in theaters to give audiences a look at their dark and brooding big screen Batman and the Gotham City he protects.

Debut of the Day: The Batmobile first appeared outside of DC comic books 80 years ago in Lambert Hillyer’s 15 chapter black and white serial film “Batman” released by Columbia Pictures in 1943. After “the Bat-Man”’s 1939 debut in ‘Detective Comics’, the character’s popularity continued to rise in National Allied Publications (today’s DC), receiving his own self titled book a year later in April 1940. As the adventures of Batman and his young sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder (Dick Grayson) evolved t