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WHERE DOES HE GET THOSE WONDERFUL TOYS?When Warner Bros.' Batman hit theaters in the summer of 1989, director Tim Burton's masterpiece of action, atmosphere, and art direction smashed box office predictions and rewrote the conventional wisdom on what comic book movies could achieve--both financially and artistically. In the wake of the film's success, DC Comics--keepers of the Dark Knight Detective's foundational four-color adventures--set out to bring as many of those moviegoers as possible into comic bookstores, and their first step was an official comics adaptation of Burton's newly minted blockbuster.Crafted by comics legends Dennis O'Neil and Jerry Ordway and released at a time when home video was still in its infancy, Batman: The Official Comic Adaptation of the Warner Bros.