The 1930 Film Noir Inspiration For ‘Batman’

YouTube mashup artist and UPROXX reader Rob Hebert emailed us a link to this video he made after reading that The Bat Whispers, a 1930 noir thriller, is thought to have been Bob Kane’s inspiration for Batman. posted on August 9, 2012 at 8:49pm EDT

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