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  • Six pages from the end we see Commissioner Gordon up on the police station roof, shining the bat-signal into the sky.

    Batman, Robin, and the “Much-Maligned Sound Effect”? 2009

  • With regular gasoline prices averaging $3.62 per gallon last week, the political bat-signal has been fired to summon the Strategic Petroleum Reserve SPR to remedy the situation.

    Should We Use The Strategic Petroleum Reserve? 2011

  • Six pages from the end we see Commissioner Gordon up on the police station roof, shining the bat-signal into the sky.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • We readers are left wondering if Batman and Robin just happened to be out skydiving when the bat-signal was turned on.

    Batman, Robin, and the “Much-Maligned Sound Effect”? 2009

  • With regular gasoline prices averaging $3.62 per gallon last week, the political bat-signal has been fired to summon the Strategic Petroleum Reserve SPR to remedy the situation.

    Should We Use The Strategic Petroleum Reserve? 2011

  • We readers are left wondering if Batman and Robin just happened to be out skydiving when the bat-signal was turned on.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Batman has it easy -- Commissioner Gordon shines the bat-signal into the night sky, and you can see it from anywhere in Gotham City, including from inside Wayne Manor, where in your secret identity, you have more money than God, which makes mansions and batmobiles and bat caves a lot easier to come by.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Steve Perry 2010

  • Batman has it easy -- Commissioner Gordon shines the bat-signal into the night sky, and you can see it from anywhere in Gotham City, including from inside Wayne Manor, where in your secret identity, you have more money than God, which makes mansions and batmobiles and bat caves a lot easier to come by.

    Slower Than a Speeding Bullet Steve Perry 2010

  • My first impression was that the Joker purposely blew the building in the shape of the logo, as kind of a twisted version of the bat-signal.

    Amazing New Poster for The Dark Knight! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • They wear pagers (seriously) that send the bat-signal.

    Mike Stark: My Take on Dems, Politics, and Health Care 2009

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