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Back to SearchBATMANIA pt 2: Is nothing impossible?
Episode 92
The appearance of Biljo White's fanzine BATMANIA was well timed. Not only did it contain coverage of, and fan reaction to, the New Look Batman of th…
8 years ago
BATMANIA pt 1: Comics Fans Connect
Episode 91
BATMANIA was a well-made fanzine that was started by Columbia, MO, fireman Biljo White in 1964, concurrent with the introduction of New Look Batman …
8 years ago
Surf's Up, Joker's Under, and Al's On!
Episode 90
Surf's Up, Joker's Under is perhaps the most polarizing episode of Batman. Some call it their favorite of season three, or even of the whole series,…
8 years, 1 month ago
"Fashions in Crime": Hard-Boiled Batman '66
Episode 89
In late in 1965, writer Peggy Shaw (a.k.a. Peggy O'Shea) submitted a Batman script called Fashions in Crime. It was based on a story of the same tit…
8 years, 1 month ago
Holy hyperbole! It's Burt Ward's book!
Episode 88
Burt Ward's 1995 memoir Boy Wonder: My Life in Tights, while it does give us some insight into what it was like to go from nothing to superfame to t…
8 years, 2 months ago
An Eggsasperating Eggsercise
Episode 87
The season three episodes The Ogg and I and How to Hatch a Dinosaur are a two-parter in which the parts have virtually no common story elements, onl…
8 years, 2 months ago
"Louie, The Lilac": Please Omit Important Scenes
Episode 86
Louie, The Lilac is a surprising episode for how un-Uncle Milty-like Milton Berle's performance is. It's also uneven, with some nice camera shots, b…
8 years, 3 months ago
#085 "Batman '89" Turns our Heads
Episode 85
The 1989 Batman movie was the result of a decade of pitching, rewriting, and personnel changes. It made a Batcave full of money, but is it a good Ba…
8 years, 3 months ago
#084 Pies at the Penguin's Nest; Goofs to which Semple Fessed (w/ Ben Bentley!)
Episode 84
In 1966, after being the writer and script editor who got the '66 series off the ground, Lorenzo Semple Jr. yielded his chair to Charles Hoffman. Wh…
8 years, 4 months ago
Fitting Batman '66 into "The Caped Crusade"
Episode 83
The debut of Batman '66 caused a backlash among Batman nerds, who subsequently demanded Batman comics that reverted to the dark, sullen loner versio…
8 years, 4 months ago