Batman: The Ultimate Evil the project, allowing Vachss to take some creative liberties. At a party, Bruce Wayne meets Debra Kane, a caseworker with Child Protective Services. He asks to join her while she visits clients. She agrees and shows him the varying degrees of child abuse she encounters in the course of her job. Wanting to understand the factors behind child abuse, Bruce, as Batman, breaks into Hellgate Prison and talks with an informant who points him to a child pornography and prostitution ring. Bruce's butler Alfred Pennyworth reveals that Bruce's mother, Martha Wayne, had been secretly investigating a similar child prostitution ring,
The Batman/Superman Hour 1984's "" and 1985's "". In 1969, the series was repackaged into 30-minute episodes without the Superman segments and renamed "Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder". Batman would next appear in "The New Adventures of Batman" in 1977. In 1985, Warner Home Video released five selected episodes of the series on VHS as part of the "Super Powers" video collection. These videos were re-released in 1996 and are out of print. In 1996, episodes were included in "The Superman/Batman Adventures" on the USA Network. They later aired on the Cartoon Network and Boomerang. The Superman portion of the program consisted