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kontextmaschine:

The first movie whose promotional campaign I remember was the 1990 Warren Beatty/Madonna Dick Tracy, which was intended to be the next Batman ‘89 but wasn’t

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that plus The Phantom (and The Rocketeer, which was actually indie retro) testifies that there was this throwback mass-market comics thing afoot in the early 90s, I like to include Heathcliff and Friends and An American Tail as this weird urban sandlot funny animal renaissance (be sure to toss in Steven Spielberg’s Tiny Toons!)

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