Batman: The Animated Series - Comic Adaption and Novelization

Comic Adaption and Novelization

The television series was accompanied by a tie-in comic book, The Batman Adventures, which followed the art style and continuity of the television series instead of other Batman comic books. The Batman Adventures, through several format changes to reflect the changing world of the series and its spin-offs, outlasted the series itself by nearly a decade, finally being cancelled in 2004 to make way for the tie-in comic of the then-new, unrelated Batman animated series, The Batman.

There was also a short-lived series of tie-in novels, adapted from episodes of the series by science fiction author Geary Gravel. To achieve novel-length, Gravel combined several related episodes into a single storyline in each novel. The novels included:

• Shadows of the Past ("Appointment in Crime Alley", "Robin's Reckoning" two-parter)
• Dual to the Death ("Two-Face" two-parter, "Shadow of the Bat" two-parter)
• The Dragon and the Bat ("Night of the Ninja", "Day of the Samurai")
• Mask of the Phantasm (Batman: Mask of the Phantasm movie)