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0:00 SEG 1 Michael Uslan talks about celebrating the 35th anniversary of the 1989 ‘Batman’ film, teaching courses about comic books, how being an attorney kept him out of Vietnam, why it took 10 years to get Batman made in 1989, making a Swamp Thing film, Constantine on NBC, Swamp Thing TV show on DC Universe, wanting to feature Batman as the world’s greatest detective, being letdown by the 1966 ‘Batman’ TV show, the Green Hornet/Lone Ranger miniseries, and spending an afternoon with David Bowie
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