We know that much of "The Joker's Wild"/"Batman is Riled" was based on "The Joker's Utility Belt" in Batman issue 73 (1952). But the "spring" prison escape is not in that story, and I feel as if somewhere (a search of the board turned up nothing) I heard that ...

Wow, Hornet, thanks for the tour! That Simms Batmobile is definitely the one we had.

https://assets.libsyn.com/show/65262/BatmanInLondon.jpg We Americans know that Batman was also popular in the United Kingdom (and many other countries), but there are differences in the level of popularity that was reached and how long it lasted, and also in terms of when “first run” of the show wa...

A question: Are there other Catwoman scripts not written by SRR that you're aware of and are holding out for future episodes or did he pretty much hold the monopoly on the character aside from the Sandman eps? cheers Sorry for the late response! Back in 2018 we talked about a couple of unused Catwo...

https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/65262/BatmanCollected.jpg When the Batman TV show set off Batmania in 1966, a wide variety of toys and other tie-in items, not all of them licensed, hit the market. Since licensers seldom made style guides in the ‘60s, rights to the actors likenesses weren’t av...

Thanks Ben!

We've had to give up on having a guest for this episode - those we reached out to either declined or didn't respond, and the rest we were unable to contact. We're going ahead with recording an episode in a few days that will basically be a discussion of the Kidd book. QUESTION: Many of the '66 bat-t...

The Facebook group turns out to have its membership list hidden, and none of the collectors mentioned above have commented recently. So this looks like a dead end...

Art Cloos Craig Warren Ed Kelly These three are probably the tops when it comes to 1966 Batman memorabilia. Private facebook page "Batman Collectors" https://www.facebook.com/groups/332721826769097 (edit addition: I see that Chip Kidd has now been added to the "Batman Collectors"...

Ben Bentley wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 10:36 am
John A. H. Pennyworth is our long standing "A.Pennyworth" here on the Message Board and can be reached via Private Message.
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=89

Thanks, Ben!

By the way, if anyone knows how to contact any of these people, please send a PRIVATE message:

John A. H. Pennyworth

Craig Warren

Art Cloos

Eric Seltzer

Joe Desris

BiffPow, thanks for the info on the MINT museum (https://emint.com/ )! Maybe I'll have to make my way down to Singapore one of these days -- as I live in Tokyo, it's in the neighborhood, relatively speaking! We had some delays but we're now to the point of seriously preparing to do this podcast epis...

https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/65262/FearsomeFoursome300.jpg Former Batman comics writer Winston Lyon , fresh off his novel Batman vs. Three Villains of Doom , a few months later produced the novelization of Batman: The Movie , a book called Batman vs. the Fearsome Foursome . This time, for ...

https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/65262/nora_clavicle.jpg The three versions of the script for Nora Clavicle and the Ladies’ Crime Club raise some interesting questions about season three. Why did the Duo and Batgirl never have a way to easily contact each other? Why do our heroes’ early suspic...

Ken Holtzhouser wrote: ↑Tue Nov 01, 2022 7:10 am Thanks for the shout out, guys! We need to find a topic and get together again...

Yes we do!