Batman art from Batman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, and Batman Beyond is highly sought-after.
Batman the animated series is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero
Batman. The series was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and originally aired on the Fox Network from September 5, 1992 to September 15, 1995. The visual style of the series, dubbed "Dark Deco," was based on the film noir artwork of producer and artist Eric Radomski, although Bruce Timm is often mistakenly given credit for this due to the fact that the characters were based on his designs. The series was widely praised for its thematic complexity, dark tone, artistic quality, and faithfulness to its title character's crime-fighting origins. The series also won four Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program.
The second season of the series was retitled as
The Adventures of Batman and Robin and is simply a continuation of the series.
The third season saw a drastic redesign of the entire aesthetic, taking a similar design approach to
Superman: The Animated Series, which was being produced by the same animation team at the same time. This third and fourth season also was retitled as
The New Batman Adventures.
TNBA, despite its changes, is a continuation of the acclaimed
Batman: The Animated Series. The series turned to focus more on Batman's supporting cast, including Robin, Nightwing and Batgirl. It also saw several crossovers including the acclaimed first animated team-up of Batman and Superman in the appropriately titled episode "World's Finest". The aesthetic would also be emulated for the
Justice League and
Justice League: Unlimited series, which stars the same Batman.
The New Batman Adventures (often shortened as
TNBA) is an American
superhero animated television series based on the
DC Comics superhero
Batman, and is a continuation of the 1990s
Batman: The Animated Series. It was produced by
Warner Bros. Animation and aired on
Kids' WB from September 13, 1997 to January 16, 1999.
Stories in this series tend to give more focus to Batman's supporting cast, which include fellow crimefighters
Robin,
Nightwing and
Batgirl, among others. The show also features guest stars such as
Supergirl,
Etrigan the Demon and
The Creeper; characters who would later appear with Batman in
Justice League and
Justice League Unlimited. The 2001 video game
Batman: Vengeance and its follow-up
Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu are based on this series.
Batman Beyond is an American
Superhero animated television series developed by Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and Alan Burnett and produced by
Warner Bros. Animation in collaboration with
DC Comics as a continuation of the
Batman legacy. The series began airing on January 10, 1999, and ended its run on December 18, 2001.
After 52 episodes spanning three seasons and one
direct-to-video feature film, the series was put on hold for the
Justice League animated series, despite the network having announced plans for a fourth season.
Depicting a teenaged
Batman in a futuristic
Gotham City under the tutelage of an elderly
Bruce Wayne,
Batman Beyond is set in the chronological future of the
DC animated universe (despite being released before
Static Shock,
Justice League and
Justice League Unlimited), and serves as a continuance of both
Batman: The Animated Series and
The New Batman Adventures.
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