Batman’s first appearance was in DETECTIVE COMICS issue 27 in May 1939, at the hands of Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. This subsequently launched Batman’s career as a comic crime fighter in the years after. It was actually quite soon that the first Batman movie (series) appearance was a fact, as you can see below in this list of Batman Movies and TV series!
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1The Batman (1943) (movie serial)
- Directed by: Lambert Hillyer
- Starring: Lewis Wilson, Douglas Croft, J. Carrol Naish, Shirley Patterson
- Filming budget: $?
- Box office, gross: $?
Chapter Titles:
- The Electrical Brain
- The Bat’s Cave
- The Mark of the Zombies
- Slaves of the Rising Sun
- The Living Corpse
- Poison Peril
- The Phoney Doctor
- Lured by Radium
- The Sign of the Sphinx
- Flying Spies
- A Nipponese Trap
- Embers of Evil
- Eight Steps Down
- The Executioner Strikes
- The Doom of the Rising Sun
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