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Buono, How We Love Ya
Episode 82
Why on earth does "The Unkindest Tut of All" feature a King Tut claiming to have precognitive abilities? Could it be because Stanley Ralph Ross want…
8 years, 5 months ago
Donna Loren takes us to School
Episode 81
In 1965, Lorenzo Semple Jr. wrote the first scripts for the Batman series. Any Bat-fan knows that the Hi Diddle Riddle and Fine Feathered Finks arcs…
8 years, 5 months ago
The '66 Batman comic strip: Having it both ways
Episode 80
We're back!
In the thick of the 1966 Batman boom, Ledger Syndicate and DC debuted a new Batman comic strip. Written by Whitney Ellsworth and drawn b…
8 years, 6 months ago
Programming update - Our return is days away!
TO THE BATPOLES! returns this Thursday, March 15, with our long-promised discussion of the 1966 Batman comic strip!
Next up, a look at the draft scr…
8 years, 6 months ago
NOTICE -- podcast delay
"To the Batpoles!" is taking some down time. Listen for the details.
8 years, 8 months ago
There's no business like horse business
Episode 79
In the first two-parter of season three, Penguin and Lola Lasagne horse around with the Wayne Foundation's charity horse race. Before getting in the…
8 years, 8 months ago
"Pop Goes the Joker" script: The Batpole signs aren't missing, and the monkey is
Episode 78
At first glance, Stanford Sherman's draft script of Pop Goes the Joker doesn't seem to vary much from the final. A few minor oversights of Sherman's…
8 years, 8 months ago
Stanley Ralph Ross: Love 'im, Hate 'im
Episode 77
Bat-fans with any awareness of which writer wrote which Bat-script have long had a love-hate relationship with Stanley Ralph Ross, one of the most p…
8 years, 9 months ago
A "Wail" of a time with Siren and High C!
Episode 76
When you want analysis of Joan Collins' appearance as the Siren, there's only one man to call: High C! He's a mainstay of the all-seeing, all-knowin…
8 years, 9 months ago
Reading Ross' Draft Script "That Darned Catwoman"
Episode 75
It's time to dig into another draft script, and another by Stanley Ralph Ross: That Darned Catwoman! We find many things that were left out of the b…
8 years, 9 months ago