2. By the 1960s, the dominant Batman was the camp hero of the hit TV show. O'Neil, working in close collaboration with artist Neil Adams, was essential in recasting the character in a more noir, urban and gritty way.pic.twitter.com/uq9Dm2iZt7
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2. By the 1960s, the dominant Batman was the camp hero of the hit TV show. O'Neil, working in close collaboration with artist Neil Adams, was essential in recasting the character in a more noir, urban and gritty way.pic.twitter.com/uq9Dm2iZt7
3. More broadly, O'Neil (again working with Neal Adams) brought the politics of the 1960s/1970s into superhero comics in a way that was rare at the time -- not always successfully but certainly memorably.pic.twitter.com/AKS5qo6K6S
4. I don't think any of the later iterations of Batman -- Frank Miller's Dark Knight, Moore's Killing Joke, the Burton and Nolen movies -- would have been possible without O'Neil's work (Miller, in particular, was O'Neil's protege). So he left a large footprint.
This is the first creator death in a long time to shock me. I knew Denny had entered his 80s (shocking enough), but I was not prepared to hear this. His work inspired a huge legion of followers and imitators from the late 60s onward. I’ll miss you, Denny!
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