Posted By Dan Greenfield on Nov 6, 2024 | 3 comments

America’s only permanent 1966 Batman Museum is putting new eyes on this snazzy artwork…

In 2023, we ran a series of stories celebrating Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson’s beloved 1966 pin-up of Batman and Robin standing vigil on a rooftop.

You know the one:

It’s been on everything from book covers to puzzles to statues — you name it, it’s been there.

Plenty of artists have homaged it too. One of them is graphic artist Scott Sebring, who is well known in Batman circles as one of the 1966 TV show’s top fans and champions.

Dig his version, which swaps out the comic-book Dynamic Duo for Adam West and Burt Ward:

“A few years ago during lockdown, I was getting into an illustration software geared towards comic book drawing called Clip Studio Paint,” Scott sez. “I was also getting familiar with my new digital drawing tablet. I always loved inkers that used brushes like John Romita Sr., Tom Palmer and especially Murphy Anderson.

“Murphy’s inking on Carmine Infantino’s pencils for the famous Batman and Robin rooftop poster has always been one of my all-time favorite Batman images,” he said. “So, I sat down and tried to emulate Murphy’s inking with the digital tablet and software to every square inch of that classic illustration. But the twist here was that I was going to create a picture of Adam West and Burt Ward in their respective roles. It took a while with more than a few false starts and redos in areas. The beauty about digital is that you can erase ink. I finished it in early 2021 and really didn’t know what I wanted to do with it.”

Exterior artwork by Sebring

But now it’s getting wide visibility as the cover of the official pamphlet for the new 1966 Batman Museum in Logansport, Indiana, operated by Mark Racop, who owns Fiberglass Freaks, the world’s only licensed manufacturer of full-scale ’66 Batmobile replicas.

Photo by Jim Beard

“When Mark’s museum was starting to become more and more of a reality, I got involved in helping to design the front on the building as well as some other areas,” Scott noted. “During that time, I gave Mark the illustration to use for whatever promotional or display needs that he may have for the museum. It seemed like a good home for it. I hope it gets some good use.”

It certainly is.

Here are the interior pages, by the way, thanks to our pal Jim Beard, who prompted all that rooftop-image coverage last year:

Holy Rermbrandt!

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Fiberglass Freaks’ Batman Museum is located at 525 East Market Street, Logansport, Indiana, 46947. For information, including tickets, click here.

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