Episode
The New Batman Adventures: Torch Song
Overview
A lovelorn pyrotechnic engineer, Garfield Lynns, gets dumped by a big time singer named Cassidy. Lynns becomes the supervillain Firefly, bent on burning the woman who burned him.
Details
- Series
- The New Batman Adventures
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1998-06-13
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Torch Song is Episode 12 in Season 1 of The New Batman Adventures. It aired on 1998-06-13. The runtime is 21 min.
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