Summary

"Batman: The Animated Series" is darker than most superhero cartoons before and since — literally darker . Drawn on black paper , "Batman: The Animated Series" presents Gotham City like an art deco painting mixed with an old Hollywood crime movie. But it wasn't only gangsters that went bump in the night. The very first episode, "On Leather Wings," uses one of the most out-there Batman villains: Man-Bat, aka zoologist Kirk Langstrom (Marc Singer), transformed by a potion into a half-man/half-bat creature like a winged werewolf.

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