BATMAN ’66 WEEK brings you a special one… — Welcome to BATMAN ’66 WEEK, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the beloved TV show starring Adam West! All week, we’ll be presenting daily tributes and features, leading up to Jan. 12 — the premiere date itself — when we’ll roll out a brand-new TOP 13 BATMAN ’66 EPISODE COUNTDOWN, voted upon by a panel of the most knowledgeable Bat-experts around. Click here for the COMPLETE INDEX. — Dan — UPDATED 1/11/26: This story was one of the first I wrote for 13th Dimension, published Oct. 22, 2013. Getting to interview Adam West that early on was extraordinarily fortuitous timing. Since then, I’ve spent the better part of more than 12 years writing and publishing about Batman ’66 from just about every angle. I’ll continue to do so until my fingers fall off. Adam West is gone now, so for the show’s 60th anniversary, I wanted to bring this interview back to the surface. Parts of it are dated, obviously, but so much of it remains fresh. Dig it. — Dan — Without Adam West, I don’t discover Mego action figures. Without Adam West, I don’t discover Filmation’s Batman cartoons. Without Adam West, I don’t discover Neal Adams and Denny O’Neil and Steve Englehart or Marshall Rogers or any of them. Without Adam West, I don’t fall in love with comics and comics culture so deeply and so profoundly that I throw caution to the wind and start hollering about them from the rooftops of the Internet with this here website. I can’t tell you when I first saw “Batman” but I know it was on Channel 11, a local New York station, and I was probably all of 4 years old, or maybe, just maybe, 5. It was on every day after kindergarten and I refused to miss it. Why? The action? The bright colors? Maybe. It’s difficult to say. It may have been as simple as that. Or maybe I was just a young boy whose parents were going through a loud divorce and I needed a refuge, a place where the line between right and wrong was clearly marked, and the good guys always won and they always got along. Paging Commissioner Freud! I could go on but I won’t. In my fairly short time as a bona fide comics commentator (still waiting for that correspondence course diploma!),...