Posted By Dan Greenfield on May 22, 2024 | 3 comments

An EXCLUSIVE 13-part series serializing one of the year’s grooviest books…

TwoMorrows can always be counted on to publish fabulous books about comics and the zeitgeist, and one of the grooviest to come this year is Zowie! by Mark Voger, a technicolor exploration of “the TV Superhero Craze in ’60s Pop Culture.”

This, as they say, is in our wheelhouse here at 13th Dimension, so we will be excerpting the book every Wednesday for the next 13 weeks, much as we did with Michael Eury’s 2017 Hero-A-Go-Go!, also from TwoMorrows. You could even call them sister publications.

Clearly, the book is inspired by the Batman TV series, but it’s got so much more to offer.

Dig the table of contents:

Zowie! is Voger’s seventh book for TwoMorrows, and the fifth of this variety, including my personal faves Groovy and Britmania. (Click here for the full list.) It’s a 192-page hardcover that lists for $43.95 and is due July 31.

It will be available through comics shops and booksellers but you can already pre-order it directly from TwoMorrows. Click here.

While you wait for it to arrive, we’ll whet your whistle weekly on Wednesdays. And don’t worry, 13 segments will not spoil the experience because this book is utterly jammed with fab stuff. So, keep coming back to this post — bookmark it even — because this is where we’ll be collecting all the links as we go.

Right on!

—

LINKS

— ZOWIE! HOW BATGIRL GOT HER KICKS: Why YVONNE CRAIG Did Her Own Stunts — While ADAM WEST and BURT WARD Didn’t. Click here.

— The Timeless — If Balky — Allure of Grantray-Lawrence’s 1960s MARVEL TV Cartoons. Click here.

— THE GREEN HORNET: BRUCE LEE Belongs to the World — But Superhero Fans Had Him First. Click here.

— CAPTAIN ACTION: Forever the Quintessential Superhero Action Figure of the 1960s. Click here.

— BATWOMAN IN A BIKINI: When 1960s BATMANIA Got Revved Up and Racy. Click here.

— Dig This Glorious Gallery of Groovy 1960s Superhero Booty — BATMAN and Beyond. Click here.

— Your Complete BATMAN ’66 Guide to Every Actor Who Played a Major SPECIAL GUEST VILLAIN. Click here.

— ARGOMAN and the 1960s ITALIAN SUPERHERO FRENZY. Click here.

— SHUWATCH! The Ultra-Bonkers Kaiju of ULTRAMAN. Click here.

— THE OTHER GUYS: The Wildly Fun Also-Ran Superheroes of the 1960s. Click here.

— BATMAN ’66: How They Turned a Hit Show Into a Beloved Movie Treasure. Click here.

— When BATMANIA Turned JAPANESE. Click here.

— JULIE NEWMAR: ‘I Always Thought That as a Cat, I Could Toy With Any Male Star.’ Click here.

—

— ZOWIE! New History of the 1960s TV SUPERHERO CRAZE Coming in 2024. Click here.