The AP is reporting the passing of Larry D. Mann, who plated Dr. Mabouse on the "Invasion from Outer Space" two parter: From the Associated Press Larry D. Mann, who voiced Yukon Cornelius in the animated Christmas favorite "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," has died. He was 91. Hi...

I think many of you have hit the nail on the head. The need to introduce the origins of the psychologically complex versions of the villains to movie audiences in the 90s (plus origins for Robin and Batgirl) made these movies wall to wall claustrophobic. With the exception of Batgirl in 1967, origin...

Now here is something I've been waiting for! From IDW's January 2014 solicits: Batman: The Silver Age Newspaper Comics, Vol. 1: 1966 - 1967 Whitney Ellsworth (w) • Shelly Moldoff, Joe Giella, Carmine Infantino (a) • Pete Poplaski (c) The Silver Age Caped Crusader comes to IDW's Library of American C...

Thanks to tomztoyz' Batblog, I came across this hilarious salute to the opening Batman credit sequence. I loved the video made with the Mattel action figures, but this has a great charm to it, too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaizI9eBxp4#t=47 While this may seen like a low-rent homage, I love the...

I noticed that the music played during the chase scene to the BatCave was recycled from the pilot. Evidently, it did not bother anyone that the Riddler's motif was being played while the Joker was on-camera. Also, the continuity police were asleep as Bruce Wayne never acknowledges Mr. Whiteface as t...

Honestly, I had no idea when I suggested a collection above, but look what DC is publishing in January (from their solicitations on newsarama.com): BATMAN ‘66: THE TV STORIES TP Written by BILL FINGER, GARDNER FOX, JOHN BROOME and others Art by BOB KANE, DICK SPRANG, SHELDON MOLDOFF, CARMINE INFANTI...

With a comic book adapting the show in publication, it would be a great time for DC to collect these stories in a trade paperback utilizing the Batman 66 logo. They tried a similar project when Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was running in the 90s.

I like the Zodiac Crimes, but I thought it was padded in places. Since it had two writers, I wonder if maybe it started out as a two-part Joker story and was padded out into three parts to accommodate Penguin, especially since he isn’t in the second episode. Does anyone know? I’m sure the plot poin...

And what is meant by "undine?" John Undine was in reference to the character so named and played by the lovely Sivi Aberg, who was making her second appearance as a villain's moll. She had previously been one of Chandell/Harry's girls in the Liberace episodes. Skip Ward, who played one of...

...on Mark Evanier's blog. Scroll down to the entry "Telethon Toteboard" for an interesting anecdote about the BatWriter.

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Lately, I've been having fun pausing my recorded episodes and noticing how some of the fight scenes included more henchmen than we saw in the rest of the episode. The cuts are so quick, compounded by the added special effects, that it was unnoticable to me when I watched the shows growing up. As for...

Tonight on ABC News, thet did a story about the fire and showed a map listing Idaho's rich and famous who dwell there. I was pleased to see they included Mr. West.

Keeping hope and sending good wishes to him, his family, Van Williams, and all those who reside in the affected areas.

So glad I found this, because the only time that I had seen this broadcast, I was dozing in front of the set and for years thought I had dreamed the whole thing! This morning, I caught it on the Hub. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1K4n8AB0KE Note how the Caped Crusader's chest emblem keeps changing...

Great find!

Somehow an electric razor and cologne doesn't compare to a date with Batgirl!

Just watched "Louie's Lethal Lilac Time" and I have to say that it gets my vote for the worst episode of the series. Ellis St. Joseph commented on the producers' commitment to Catwoman in the second season and not knowing how to use her, and I wonder if they were in a similar situation wi...