Broadway Bates

[williamtheday]

Penguin look alike Broadway Bates appears in today's (May 8) Dick Tracy. Bates does predate Cobblepot by several years.

[batnbreakfast]

Is the Warren Beatty/Madonna movie worth a watch (I still enjoy Batman'89) ??

[ngroove]

Is the Warren Beatty/Madonna movie worth a watch (I still enjoy Batman'89) ??

Depends on each individual's sentimental memories of it.

It has been years and years since I last saw it myself, but to my last recollection, that movie used maybe a dozen and a half bad guys from the strips, the only ones given major screen attention, was Al Pacino Big Boy and Madonna Breathless Mahoney / the Blank. Everyone else was mostly cameos, maybe Mumbles mumbled just a line or two, that was it.

[ngroove]

Penguin look alike Broadway Bates appears in today's (May 8) Dick Tracy. Bates does predate Cobblepot by several years.

......I Know.

[williamtheday]

Tracy promised to be at Bates' s next parole hearing "same bat-time, same bat-channel".

[ngroove]

Okay, back...

To be honest, I genuinely question, why bringing him back?

Last time we saw him, was still just a few years back.

Broadway Bates, is one of those villains, that while neat to see him show up once a generation, he's not really that amusing or / and interesting a villain to bring back again and again and again, like Mumbles or B-B Eyes, or whatever family member of Flat Top they come up with.

[williamtheday]

Breathless Mahoney is back, or rather, a "method actress" portraying her in a movie. Shakey's nephew appeard recently.

[MajorHoy]

According to the "Dick Tracy Wiki" (https://dicktracy.fandom.com/wiki/Broadway_Bates), Broadway Bates first appeared in February 1932.
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The Penguin first appeared in Detective Comics #58 in late 1941.

[MajorHoy]

From the December 3rd, 2012 Dick Tracy strip:

And a familiar figure (silhouette only) in the January 5th, 2013 installment: