An ANNIVERSARY TRIP: Simple beauty… — UPDATED 9/14/26: Filmation’s The Adventures of Batman premiered 58 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1968! Perfect time to reprint this piece from Nov.17, 2022. Far out! — Dan — In case you missed the news earlier this week, Warner Bros. Discovery will be releasing a remastered Blu-ray set of Filmation’s 1968 The Adventures of Batman in 2023. (Click here for all the funky details.) Anyway, that put me on the hunt for 13 original animation cels to pretty up the place. Most of these came from Heritage Auctions’ website and some of the backgrounds feature generic art. But the cels themselves are gloriously groovy. As best I can tell, they’re all 1968 vintage, as opposed to being from 1977’s New Adventures of Batman. (The provenance isn’t always accurate or clear.) Either way, these are fab — so dig ’em. Oh, and the last one just happens to be from the show’s most scintillating sequence. Right on. — MORE — The FILMATION BATMAN Index. Click here. — 1968’s FILMATION BATMAN to Get Remastered Blu-ray Release in 2023. Click...
1966 WEEK! The grooviest, ginchiest parts of Batman’s longest season… — UPDATED 9/7/26: It’s 1966 WEEK! The Adam West Batman series’ second season debuted 60 years ago, on Sept. 7, 1966. Perfect time to reprint this piece from September 2021! For more 1966 WEEK festivities, click here. Right on! — Dan — Last week, on Adam West’s birthday, we reminded you of the release of Zlonk! Zok! Zowie! The Subterranean Blue Grotto Essays on Batman ’66 – Season One, a non-fiction anthology edited by Jim Beard, with Rich Handley, by bringing you Jim’s 13 COOL THINGS ABOUT BATMAN ’66 SEASON ONE. Click here to check it out because it’s pretty dang swell. Anyway, we decided to go back to the Bat-well this weekend, with 13 COOL THINGS ABOUT BATMAN ’66 SEASON TWO — because Biff! Bam! Ee-Yow! The Subterranean Blue Grotto Essays on Batman ’66 – Season Two is out now, featuring The Batcave Podcast host John S. Drew, 13th Dimension columnist Paul Kupperberg, Michael Jan Friedman, Bobby Nash, Chris Franklin, Ed Catto, and my own bad self, among the contributors. So if you want to order the books – and you do – click here for Season One and click here for Season Two. In the meantime, dig 13 COOL THINGS ABOUT BATMAN ’66 SEASON TWO: — By JIM BEARD 1. Van Johnson’s Minstrel doesn’t get the attention he deserves, especially since he’s not only one of the few Bat-Villains that, within the fiction of “The Minstrel’s Shakedown/Barbequed Batman,” the Caped Crusader’s never met before, but he’s also said to be Batman’s equal or better in terms of being an electronic genius. How cool is that? — 2. Forget about the absolute insanity of Liberace being on Batman and take a moment to consider the absolutely cool badassery of Aunt Harriet in “The Devil’s Fingers/The Dead Ringer.” Now there’s one pistol-packin’ mama! — 3. It’s no surprise to me a hip show like Batman would include then-cool musical guest-stars like Paul Revere and the Raiders in “Hizzoner the Penguin/Dizzoner the Penguin,” but the group was actually working for the dirty bird on his crooked campaign? Wild! — 4. There’s something so incredibly cool in “The Impractical Joker/The Joker’s Provokers,” it often goes unnoticed by fans—Batman talks about the Clown Prince of Crime’s past as a hypnotist. What does that...
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