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The World of Stainboy is a series ofFlash animation shorts created in 2000 by directorTim Burton and animated by Flinch Studio. The character Stainboy first appeared in two short poems in the bookThe Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories, also created and illustrated by Tim Burton.[1][2] The series is Burton's first foray into thesuperhero genre sinceBatman Returns.
In the shorts, Stainboy works for theBurbank police, and at the start of each episode he is ordered to investigate and bring in social outcasts. Many of the outcasts are characters from theOyster Boy book. Each of the six episodes is under five minutes in length. The final episode had Stainboy living through aflashback to his early childhood at anorphanage, implying the beginning of a larger storyline, although no further episodes were produced.
In November 2010, Burton began a new story about Stainboy, on theTwitter account "BurtonStory". Fans could contribute to the story via Twitter, and the best continuation Tweets of the day would be re-Tweeted by BurtonStory. The project ended on December 6.
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