In 1978, Superman made us believe a man could fly. But in 1989, Batman made movie studios believe that comic book stories as a genre unto themselves could be profitable. In the shadow of Batman’s big payday, Hollywood gave the greenlight to material that they would previously ignore. While that IP-hunt certainly proved profitable for the Dark Knight too, who returned to theaters in multiple sequels and in the animated film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm , it mostly applied to B- and C-level characters, most of whom did not come from the pages of DC or Marvel Comics . And even thoses that did, tended to be from the back bench. So in this modern age of MCU and DC domination at the box office, let’s look back at a stranger and now antiquated moment in superhero cinema. Well, a

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