Let’s celebrate Batman’s anniversary with some reboots!
Not a current anniversary but 1968’s Batman #200, “The Man Who Radiated Fear” by Mike Friedrich and Chic Stone. As you can see, DC thought getting to 200 was worth …
Tag: New Look Batman
DC’s Batman in 1967
When I was a kid, the Batman TV show was amazingly cool. A superhero, right there on the TV, and in live action! I hadn’t seen the George Reeves Superman …
The Batusi, the new dance craze sweeping DC comics!
The Batman TV show — the one starring Adam West and Burt Ward, hopefully y’all are familiar with it — hit the airwaves at the start of ’66. It didn’t …
She’s pretty as a daisy — but look out, man, she’s crazy!
Title courtesy of the Coasters’ old song, “Poison Ivy,” which tells you whose debut I’m about to discuss.Despite Bob Kane’s signature, the art for Poison Ivy’s debut in Batman #181 …
Batman, right before Adam West
In January of 1966, Batman would debut on ABC TV, launching a craze that would make Batman DC’s biggest star and pump “camp” into DC’s comic book line. In 1965, …
Batman splits from Superman, then fights … Hydra? More from ’64
Following on Monday’s Bat-post, there are a couple more Batman stories from 1964 I wanted to talk about. First, from World’s Finest Comics #143, we have a story that asks …
Crime clowns and deconstructed deathtraps: notes from Batman’s New Look era
As I approach the end of 1964 in my Silver Age rereading, I keep meaning to do one humongous post about all the 1964 stuff I want to cover. But …