🔑 BATMAN: THE MOVIE ADAPTATION [DC COMICS] NEWSSTAND 1989 FN

Series Title: Batman: The Official Comic Adaptation of the Warner Bros. Motion Picture (DC, 1989 series)

Issue #: [nn – Regular] [Newsstand]

Story Title: Batman: The Movie Adaptation

Date of Publication: August 1989

Edition: Standard Edition (Newsstand)

Publisher: DC / DC Comics Inc.

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Cover Price: 2.50 USD, 3.25 CAD, 1.00 GBP

Cover Artists: Jerry Ordway, Steve Oliff

Artists: Jerry Ordway, Steve Oliff

Writers: Sam Hamm, Denny O’Neil

Characters: Batman (Bruce Wayne), The Joker (Jack Napier), Vicki Vale, Alexander Knox, Alfred Pennyworth, Commissioner James Gordon, Thomas Wayne (flashback), Martha Wayne (flashback), Alicia, Carl Grissom, Lt. Eckhardt, Bob, Harvey Dent, Mayor Borg

Key Facts:

• Features the 64-page official adaptation of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman film, story by Sam Hamm, adaptation by Denny O’Neil, art and inks by Jerry Ordway, colours by Steve Oliff.
• One-shot.
• Reporter Alexander Knox and photographer Vicki Vale chase the Batman story while mob boss Carl Grissom sends Jack Napier to clean out Axis Chemicals — a set-up to kill Napier for sleeping with Grissom’s woman Alicia. Batman breaks up the raid; Napier is shot in the face and falls into a vat of chemicals, emerging as the Joker. Vicki’s investigation of Bruce Wayne leads her toward Batman’s identity even as the Joker fixates on her and floods Gotham with Smylex. The confrontation ends at Gotham Cathedral. After the Joker dies, police find “Batman” on the ground — it is Knox under Bruce’s discarded cape, a getaway beat used from the shooting script but cut from the finished film. Batman later gives Gordon the Bat-Signal; Vicki leaves Knox for Bruce. Parade-gas timing and a mouth kiss from Vicki to Knox also differ from the released film because the comic was finished from an earlier Warner Bros. script.
  
• Full colour throughout.

Page Count: 68 pages

Condition: Please refer to the accompanying photos for condition, we are amateur graders, all best efforts are taken when indicating a likely grade. Should you require further photos, please contact us. Includes archival bag and board.

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