The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.


Books on Batman

Janet K. Halfyard
Danny Elfman's Batman, A film score guide
Lanham, Md., 2004

Books with substantial mentioning of Batman

Jürgen Müller
Die besten Filme der 80er
Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005

Mikita Brottman (editor)
Jack Nicholson, Movie Top Ten
2000

Pauline Kael
Movie Love, Complete Reviews 1988-1991
New York, NY, 1991

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Articles with substantial mentioning of Batman

Ed Sikov, Bombs Away!, in: Premiere (UK), nr. 31 (August), 1995 pp. 56-59

Simon Crook, The Top 10 Film-Stealers, in: Empire, nr. 209 (November), 2006 pp. 74-75

Articles with an entry on Batman

John Caps, Soundtracks 101, Essential movie music: a listener's guide, in: Filmcomment, nr. 6 (Nov/Dec), 2003 pp. 31-49