Penguin look alike Broadway Bates appears in today's (May 8) Dick Tracy. Bates does predate Cobblepot by several years.
Penguin look alike Broadway Bates appears in today's (May 8) Dick Tracy. Bates does predate Cobblepot by several years.
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.
Tracy promised to be at Bates' s next parole hearing "same bat-time, same bat-channel".
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.
Breathless Mahoney is back, or rather, a "method actress" portraying her in a movie. Shakey's nephew appeard recently.
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.
From the December 3rd, 2012 Dick Tracy strip:
And a familiar figure (silhouette only) in the January 5th, 2013 installment: