What is Batman The Animated Series 1st appearance in print ?

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Hi all,
I'm trying to determine what was the actual first appearance
of the animated style Batman in print.

If anyone knows what was the first article / promo / print ad,
please feel free to share.


Thanks,
Gal
 
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They all probably hit around the same time. But given the time period, I would imagine Animation Magazine might have had something earlier than the others.

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Peter has a couple of scans related to Batman: The Animated Series from tv guide on his site.

I would also check Hollywood Reporter, Variety, other industry print mags of the time. PR wasn’t as tightly controlled then, so there also might be smaller print mags that scored an early interview.
 
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I tried to do a little more research but couldn't find an article published before
the one in WIZARD MAGAZINE #12 (the Animation Magazine issue featured above

was printed a bit later as far as I can tell).



Someone brought to my attention that there was this press kit pop up thing that
has a trademark stamp of 1991,but I can't really tell when or where it was actually
distributed, could anyone shed some light on this ?


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That's a really cool find.

Even though Jim and I are old hats at this now, when BTAS came out, we were still kids/early teens. So, we wouldn't have this. But there may be some people I can reach out to. They probably received it in '92, though. Either in the weeks just prior to the show airing, or during upfront season, which is usually in the spring. Bear with me. This may take a spell.
 
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Thank you for the info Eileen, I didn't know about the upfront season !
Looking forward for the followup... 😅
 
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