Jose Luis Garcia Lopez style guides for Batman Returns Batman and Penguin
from this REALLY cool twitter account. their bio:
Daily Posts on the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher Batman Anthology, Related Media (OnStar Ads, Batman '89 Comics, the Flash movie, etc), Merch, Making Of, Art, Etc.
You didn’t tag me on this one! For shame. 
SN: The above Batman was the Kenner Super Powers Batman painted black. Got to love simple, made in a crunch, prototypes!
Since @Reaganfan78 brought up the Batman Returns cereal (which was good, but paled in comparison to the headbanging, Breakfast of Champions™ ass-kicker that was the Batman cereal), I was always captivated by this box (one of many variants the Batman Returns cereal had, depending on the given promotion of the moment):
Why did it mesmerize 9-year-old me in 1992?
Because the back of that box featured all of this Kenner 
joy :
Staring at all of those snazzy toys every morning before school, as you eat your cereal, was a great way to start the day.
I have that box (not the one pictured, however) and I still stare at it in joy just as much today as I did in 1992.
Speaking of rad cereal boxes:
I don’t own that box yet, but its mail-in promotion served as my gateway to comics, so it forever has a special place in the Burton Batman section of my DC heart.
Date: Saturday June 24th 1989, the morning after watching Batman at the theater
Time: middle of the AM
Place: 89Family kitchen table, Mama89 is reading the Chicago Tribune, DC89 and LittleSis89 are eating bfast
This is a true story.
LittleSis: “So, was the Batman movie good last night?”
DC:
“OMGitwasamazing!”
LittleSis: “Yeah- I heard on the news that a lot of people across the country went to see it last night. Hey- where’s your skating bag? Don’t you have practice today?”
DC: “I’m not going to practice today.”
cue record scratch sound effect
both Mama and LittleSis look at DC with their eyes slightly agape
Mama (in her deeply rich and beautiful Russian accent): “You’re not? Don’t you have a tournament coming up?”
DC: “Yep, but I wanna’ go into downtown Chicago to a comics store I found in the phone book. I wanna’ learn more about Batman and stuff. Can we ride the train into the city today Mama?”
Mama: “Mmm, I suppose we could do that.”
cue LittleSis immediately begging to go to Water Tower Place, her then fave city spot because of it’s super cool mall
DC: “Oh, and I need to pick up Prince’s new Batman movie CD. It’s supposed be super awesome.”
Annnddd scene! 
Yep, that’s how it happened y’all. My first steps into the world of the B’Man and DC Comics.
M’kay- cuuueee the music!
there’s that total recall again! are you a rogue super soldier in hiding? you can tell me
Just something I kinda’ have in common with my mostest favoritest super duperest hero of all time
I love this story, and used to live in the Chicagoland area too.
Yay!
where were all you Chicagoans when i was defending the honor of Bozo the Clown in Important Wisdom! 
There’s a biography of Bozo that I’ve really been wanting to read for years. I remember watching him as a kid in South Carolina and really liking him.
I was at home, waasshhing my tights!
Thank you, that’s a cute candle! 
I was pretty sick yesterday from an allergic reaction. In bed all day. Watched Superman, Superman 2, Batman, and Batman Returns. Weird how good they all are. I’m mean, just technically. They’re all top notch.
The new stuff, even when really quite good, lacks the creative dedication of the older movies (to me). The effects and production design seem almost assembly line these days. They just got so good at VFX and costumes that it “seems” easy, and it’s hard to see all the love that goes into things now.
Then again, maybe there was more love in the old movies. They weren’t shot with a crew of 3,300 people creating 20,000 jobs in north Georgia for $200 million (Marvel).
Anyway, Batman Returns is still tha bomb!
very well said. even the way the Burton movies got slicker between Batman and Batman Returns made Returns feel a little more sterile to me. like the cowl in the first movie, the chunky foam that you can just SEE was hand-poured, compared to the much sleeker and more machined-looking cowl in Returns. the first one felt like the work of an artist, while the second one felt like the work of a department. (but i still love Returns.)
Love it, that’s a great Origin story of how you became @DC89. 
I honestly didn’t see the excitement coming, that was really good.
