I'd sure like to know when this is coming out, because I'm trying to plan future To the Batpoles! episodes and I'd like to know when to plan to review it! haha

I wonder if it'll be launched at New York Comicon again?

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/batman1943.jpg To the Batpoles podcast: This time we're digging deep into the 1943 Batman serial, a wartime version with a cringeworthy Japanese villain. How does this Batman compare with the '66 version? We discuss the pros and cons of many aspects of this ...

Very much so! I'd be happy if we had a stack of those to go through, episode after episode of the podcast!

Thanks, Ben! In one of those recent episodes you will hear us read your very kind review on the UK iTunes store, which I finally found!

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/zodiac_clam.jpg “The Zodiac Crimes” -- that three-parter with Joker AND Penguin! -- is a favorite arc from our childhood that seared itself into our memories — maybe more than we realized! In this episode we look at why this arc stuck with us, and whether it...

Does anyone know where this album might exist digitally? I found the Batman theme and three other tracks from it on YouTube, but can't find it in its entirety.

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/radioactivespray.jpg When an extra-foppish Mad Hatter seems to be in on the joke, has Batman '66 pushed camp too far? How much does plausibility matter in comedy? Are those bat-skeletons being signified by a marimba, or a xylophone? Why can’t Batman remove r...

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/hickery_dickery_doc.jpg At last the time has come to examine that Jay Thompson script "Hickery Dickery Doc", the script that Charles Hoffman turned into "The Impractical Joker"/"The Joker's Provokers"! Besides looking at the sim...

Now that you mention it, I think I have seen one of these overseas-poster red-underwear '66 Batman images before!

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/sandman_catwoman.jpg TO THE BATPOLES podcast: The notorious European criminal Sandman is in town - and he’s teamed up with Catwoman! But that’s not how writer Ellis St. Joseph had envisioned this episode. Tim and Paul are joined by cartoonist and podcaster J...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dfxb4RCR-tk/VBHanXTg9ZI/AAAAAAAAK0M/RyMFJ51TiW8/s1600/adam%2Bwest's%2Bbatman.jpg Boss, this image looks similar to Bob Kane's original Batman sketch, before Bill Finger's suggestions that turned him into the character we know today. Is that intentional? http://static.comic...

Given how frequently Catwoman appears in season two, she seemed to check in and out of the penitentiary like it was a hotel! She was probably in costume on her way out the door!

But then you have to have a place for the Batpole to go! Time to build a Batcave?

One of our To the Batpoles listeners pointed out that there was a point when they had a batpole (singular) in the comics. She pointed us to Batman #96 in 1955 -- "it was installed to honor Gotham City Firefighters." Assuming Dozier or someone else ran across this issue in the developmental...

http://deconstructingcomics.com/Batpoles/puzzler.jpg New "To the Batpoles" podcast -- "The Puzzler: A Riddler Script from the Files" -- we talk about how, in Frank Gorshin's absence, a Riddler script was modified to create a new villain! In the show notes on our blog (link below...