OOOFF! BOFF! SPLATT! The Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman ’66 – Season Three is coming — and here’s your FIRST LOOK at the cover and table of contents…
The final volume in editor Jim Beard’s trilogy of Batman ’66 season guides — OOOFF! BOFF! SPLATT! The Subterranean Blue Grotto Guide to Batman ’66 – Season Three — is almost here, and we’ve not only got your EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK at the cover, but also the complete table of contents, featuring such fine folks as co-editor Rich Handley, 13th Dimension columnist Paul Kupperberg, John S. Drew of The Batcave Podcast, Chris Franklin of the Fire and Water Podcast Network, Barbara Kesel, Robert Greenberger and many more, including yours truly.
Dig this:
TABLE OF BAT-CONTENTS
Three’s the Harm? – An Introduction By Jim Beard
Take Me to the Pilot By Rich Handley
Seriously? By Barbara Kesel
Riddler on the Ropes By Robert Greenberger
The Siren’s Song By John S. Drew
Divorce, Theft, Fraud, and Gambling By Michael Bailey
Gotham’s Great Tut-tective By Forrest C. Helvie
When Generations Clash! By Paul Kupperberg
The Cliffhanger That Wasn’t By Sean Dulaney
13 Quick Thoughts on “Surf’s Up!” By Dan Greenfield
A Pipe of Fog Revealed / The Show’s Fate is Sealed By Ben Bentley
A Most Hallowed and Forbidden No-Man’s Land By James R. Tuck
That’s How the Egg Crumbles By James Aquilone
When the Cat’s in Court, the Joke’s on Her By L.E. Perez
Cutting Lilacs, Budgets, and Corners By Brian K. Morris
Battle of the Sexists By Stacey Smith?
Cashing In By Cliff Biggers
You’re No Sham, Shame By Gordon Dymowski
Superheroes and Subterfuge By Sam Agro
How Green is My Martian? By Chris Franklin
The Brave and the Bold, Starring Batman and Sam Spade By Ed Catto
Watching the Detectives… By Keith R.A. DeCandido
AIEEE! ARRGH! AWK! By Jim Beard
Gosh, Bruce, You Were Right! – An Afterword By Rich Handley
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A few thoughts:
— It only goes to figure that Sean E. Ali’s cover for Season 3 would be purple. Batman, Robin, Batgirl — get it?
— On a personal note, I’m incredibly honored to have contributed to this series. Writing about Surf’s Up! Joker’s Under for the final edition, in particular, was a career highlight. Hope you folks dig it.
— The book, from Crazy 8 Press, is due by March. Keep coming to 13th Dimension for updates. Meanwhile, you can click here and here for the first two volumes. You’ll love ’em! (And don’t forget — Jim is also a 13th Dimension columnist!)
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MORE
— 13 COOL THINGS ABOUT BATMAN ’66 SEASON ONE. Click here.
— 13 COOL THINGS ABOUT BATMAN ’66 SEASON TWO. Click here.
February 6, 2022
Can’t wait! 🙂
February 7, 2022
So happy to be a part of such an esteemed group of Bat-Fans! Big thanks to Jim for assembling such a Rogues Gallery of talent! I’m not sure how I got in it, but I thank you!
February 7, 2022
I’m stealing every one of these gifs 🙂
February 8, 2022
I really enjoyed the first one. Still need to get #2 as well as this latest. I’m hoping there are some pictures included as well this time. I feel it would add something to the narrative.
February 9, 2022
Oh Buck, we had some awesome pix lined up #2, but it was just not meant to be!
February 9, 2022
Very sorry, but images would put us in copyright-trademark hot water.
February 9, 2022
While ABC-TV’s then giant hit, “BATMAN” was hitting into their third and final season in the 1967-1968 period, the show was already starting to lose its punch! And, inspired by the January 1967 issue of Detective Comics with “The Million Dollar Debut Of Batgirl” (beautifully drawn by Carmine Infantino and Sid Greene), Yvonne Craig’s debut as “Batgirl” was the show’s only saving grace for the TV series, but after “BATMAN”s first two seasons on ABC when the show ended on cliffhangers on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, the Third season didn’t offer too much, especially with the Three part adventure with “Lord Fogg”, or Frank Gorshin’s final episode as “The Riddler”, but the real bummer here, was ABC’s decision to cancel “BATMAN”, but NBC had expressed interest in the series, under the conditions of The Bat Cave set was to be left intact, but the network had already ordered the bulldozers to level the set, so gone was the idea of a fourth season, but CBS came through with “THE BATMAN-SUPERMAN HOUR” in September 1968, which featured the debut of an animated Batman and Robin cartoon series from Filmation Associates.