Learn simple math. Schumacher made his films in the 90's. 90-20=70. Therefore, numbnuts, the comics of 20 years prior was in the 70's during the period that the darkness of the Batman charcter began to creep back into the comics.

Secondly, the TV was twice as campy as any of the comics of that time simply due to the fact that it went out of it's way to be campy.