Love or hate the final season of BATMAN ’66, the final volume of The Subterranean Blue Grotto Essays is HERE and NOW and ready to rope you in for the last adventures of our Dynamic Duo! Slip into your swim trunks, race through the revolving panel, climb into the Kitty Car, and wipe that egg off your face—we’re going to OOOFF! BOFF! SPLATT! your cares away, citizens!
Huge congratulations Jim, to your good self and Rich for not only completing and publishing three more '66 specific Bat-Books but for sticking with it and problem-solving the huge legal hurdles that you faced during the course of the Blue Grotto Trilogy. I don't have many regrets in life, but when my travel/work schedule back in 2018 meant I sadly had to turn down the opportunity you kindly gave me to write a chapter for the first book, that definitely was added to the list - i'm thrilled to have righted that now! Thanks again for having me.
For those of you who have perhaps not read either Book 1 or Book 2 in this series, I really do recommend them. In a lot of ways the Blue Grotto books encapsulate one of the things that continues to make being a part of the '66 Batman fandom exciting to me and that is the fact that after all this time, there are still other takes, spins and insights that people have on the self-same episodes of the show that we all know and love.
Ben Bentley wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:26 am
Huge congratulations Jim, to your good self and Rich for not only completing and publishing three more '66 specific Bat-Books but for sticking with it and problem-solving the huge legal hurdles that you faced during the course of the Blue Grotto Trilogy. I don't have many regrets in life, but when my travel/work schedule back in 2018 meant I sadly had to turn down the opportunity you kindly gave me to write a chapter for the first book, that definitely was added to the list - i'm thrilled to have righted that now! Thanks again for having me.
Hey, it all worked out, because I can't think of a better episode for you to have taken on than what you did for Vol. 3.
Ben Bentley wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:26 am
For those of you who have perhaps not read either Book 1 or Book 2 in this series, I really do recommend them. In a lot of ways the Blue Grotto books encapsulate one of the things that continues to make being a part of the '66 Batman fandom exciting to me and that is the fact that after all this time, there are still other takes, spins and insights that people have on the self-same episodes of the show that we all know and love.
I am actually about half way through '14 Miles' right now, and loving it, with 'Zloink, Zok, Zowie' on the horizon. I am looking forward to eventually working my way to your work Ben.
Fabulous job, Jim, corralling all those kittens and getting these books made.
Jimmy L. 66 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:15 am
I am actually about half way through '14 Miles' right now, and loving it, with 'Zlonk, Zok, Zowie' on the horizon. I am looking forward to eventually working my way to your work Ben.
Fabulous job, Jim, corralling all those kittens and getting these books made.
Thanks! And yes, sometimes it WAS like herding bats...I mean cats!
All three volumes are at Amazon.au at last. Last time I looked (during a Covid Lockdown, when the US postal system put Australia on a ban list), these were unavailable to me, but now there are local copies and free postage, so yay! They should arrive soon.
Therin of Andor wrote: ↑Wed Feb 16, 2022 3:25 am
All three volumes are at Amazon.au at last. Last time I looked (during a Covid Lockdown, when the US postal system put Australia on a ban list), these were unavailable to me, but now there are local copies and free postage, so yay! They should arrive soon.
I am exceedingly glad to hear that. It's something that just sort of happens on it's own - I only upload to Amazon USA; I guess it does it automatically for the other Amazon sites.
And please, everyone - leave us reviews of all three Subterranean Blue Grotto Batman '66 books. Not just a "rating," but an actual few sentences of review, please. They truly do help books on Amazon. Thank you.
And btw, OOOFF! BOFF! SPLATT! is currently #1 in it's Amazon category!
Over on the Crazy 8 Press blog, I was given the opportunity to collect some thoughts about finishing off the Subterranean Blue Grotto Batman '66 series. Hope you enjoy.
I immediately turned to the essays on "The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra" and the Batgirl presentation film, to get a taste for the style. Jealous! (More later!)
I immediately turned to the essays on "The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra" and the Batgirl presentation film, to get a taste for the style. Jealous! (More later!)
I immediately turned to the essays on "The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra" and the Batgirl presentation film, to get a taste for the style. Jealous! (More later!)
And yeah, I know I say this ad nauseum, but PLEASE leave us reviews. Seriously; most of the time we put these books out in a vacuum, never really getting any feedback, not sure if anyone loved or hated them.
