>>143764257>>143765706Bruce Timm had more control and say in those days and he's a notorious batwanker.
In fact, between how much he wanked the Batgod in the late 1990s to early 2000s - which then reached peak normie/casual culmination with Nolan's TDK, that has far more to do with Batman's popularity as a comic book (let's be real, 80K-100K copies isn't anything compared to a TV show or even a middling movie.
Even The Flash, at the average ticket price of $10+ per in 2023, still sold more than 10 million tickets, or 1000x the number of floppies Batgod sold. So, obviously, something like Oppenheimer blows any comic book (certainly any MANGA) out of the water.