Batman

Alfred the Butler first appeared in Batman #16, a few months before the release of this serial. The story introduced him as new entering Bruce Wayne's employ. However, records indicate that he was created by the writers of the film, and put into the comic book to conform with the film. In his first few appearances, Alfred was drawn as very chubby and clean shaven. Soon after the release of the film, there was a story where he went to a health spa, he lost weight and began to wear a mustache, which made him look quite similar to William Austin. From then on, the comics (and animated cartoons) Alfred has resembled the Austin image. The comics gave Alfred the surname Beagle in 1945, however he was renamed Alfred Pennyworth in 1969, whether due to an editor's error or a deliberate revision. In the 1970s he was given a backstory as a military hero, and in the mid 1980s his biography was revised so that he was the Wayne family butler in Bruce's childhood.

In Chapter 5, when the plane is being shot at, the wires supporting the plane are clearly visible.

Filmed at the height of the Second World War, this serial originally featured a large amount of racist dialogue. A later reissue (released on video by Goodtimes) maintains the fact the villain is Japanese, but otherwise features new narration and dialogue which substitutes less-racist terminology.

Edited into The Three Stooges Follies (1974)