The 1966 Batman Message Board

Love the tribute to the one, true Batman

--jthree

Tracked down a Cracked parody in Cracked 234 (March 1988), entitled "Battyman." It's written by Charles E Hall and Rick Altergott. Our Bat Parody reviewers should track it down for an upcoming parody podcast. I think it's better than Mad's classic take.

--jthree

Great. Wish they used the Julie Newmar Catwoman

T and P, Do you think you can do another episode with more Batman parodies. Cracked did one or two more, and Mad did an interesting two pager a few years ago, where the Frank Miller Batman came into the 60's Batman world.

==jthree

Guys, Did anyone ever come across Batman 66 Greeting/Holiday Cards at drug stores or super markets? I remember seeing some advertising on the internet when the licenses for the Batman 66 merchandise cleared. However, for some reason, I've never seen them at stores.

--jthree

How about the Cracked one. That was one of the best parodies. Ever. Don't remember the issue number. But the villains looked like their tv counterparts, and that made all the difference. You could also tell that the writer had a great deal of love for the Adam West version.

--jthree

Dear Bat-Fans: In April there was a "Batman in Popular Culture Conference" at Bowling Green State University, there was some talk about it here. But in the time since, has anybody found out if any of the talks are available via podcast or any other means on the internet. I know some lectures were ca...

There was something special about the sixties. Television was fun, and while it could be super silly, almost to the shows detriment (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the latter seasons of Lost in Space, and of course, Batman). I do prefer those programs to what's it out now.

--jthree

Can you tell us who the Bat Villain is?


James

Ehhhh. Where did the Bat-Guitar come from?

--jthee

Those are some of the best commercials since the spanish department store chain did the Catwoman/Wonder Woman/Batgirl ones. Really those are fun. It' a shame they did that much work for commercials that are so short. They should have been a full minute. Wonder if the people who produced those ads ha...

I would have liked to have seen how it existed on script. Or even in SRR's head. Wouldn't that have been interesting?

--jthree

[/quote] This is from a Stanley Ralph Ross interview in the late 1990s. Go to the 18:50 mark in 'chapter 2' and he claims he wrote a script in which Batman and Eartha Kitt's CW were 'married' on the ferry. Of course, the problem is this scene never aired, even though he claimed it did. But despite t...

sive, hard-to-shoot scenes for his own enjoyment, knowing they'd be excised. In a similar vein, he has a line in the treatment in which Catwoman says, 'the only way I'll ever kill Batman is with love and kindness.' It's as if he also was trying to rebel against the new edict of 'ixnay on the romanc...

Anybody else notice any significant differences between the scripts and the filmed versions?

--jthree