Okay, so that's obvious, but what is just as obvious is that Miller's Batman work has had a major impact on Batman COMIC BOOKS, as well, and likely an even LARGER impact than he has had on the films, really, just in terms of sheer volume. The impact is obvious in the major live action comic book movies that we have seen over the past thirty plus years, from Tim Burton to Christopher Nolan to Zack Snyder to Matt Reeves, the Frank Miller influence is obvious in their work (Nolan and Snyder each more or less adapted a large chunk of a major Miller work, with Nolan's Batman Begins being a Year One riff and Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice being a Dark Knight Returns riff, with some imagery literally taken directly from the original Miller comic, like Snyder did with an earlier film based on a Miller comic, 300). In Comic Book Questions Answered, I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at don't need me to tell you that the comic book work of Frank Miller from The Dark Knight Returns and Year One (the former working with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley and the latter working with penciler/inker David Mazzucchelli and colorist Richmond Lewis, who was mainly a painter but was convinced by Mazzucchelli to color a few of his projects from the era and she was magnificent) were highly influential. Today, we look at when Frank Miller's Batman work first became a distinct influence on other Batman comic books.
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