I wish so many modern Batman fans wouldn’t write off the Adam West show. Sure it’s not “gritty” or “realistic,” but it’s not adapting Neil Adams or Frank Miller or Alan Moore, those guys came later. It’s actually pretty comics accurate in terms of design and plot lines and stuff, and the changes it did make were so good a lot of them were added to the comics!
Not to mention, it’s just a fun show
I wish so many modern Batman fans wouldn’t write off the Adam West show. Sure it’s not “gritty” or “realistic...
Jace Turner
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Jonathan Nguyen
For decades 'real' batman fans hated the Adam West show. For fans in the 80s the Adam West Batman show was their Schumacher movie. They blamed it for 'ruining' the Batman brand and praised Miller and Adams for 'saving' the character by bringing him back to his dark and gritty roots.
Julian Cox
Who cares Rippaverse will bring back REAL characters
Blake Myers
>I wish so many modern Batman fans
Zoomers maybe idk, everyone else seems to enjoy or at least respect it
Eli King
There’s room for all types of Batmans.
Jason Barnes
So then why is the only batman allowed these day a leftist Marxist batman?
Josiah Evans
>leftist Marxist batman
Ironically, the closest Batman to that is Frank Miller's Batman.
Jason Taylor
Only the first season is consistently good.
Jose James
>a leftist Marxist batman?
Give it a fucking rest man.
Nathaniel Ross
THIS
Zoomers are too young to remember the Adam West show was the butt of the joke for decades. In fact, the millennials started to revalorized Batman 66 because le ironic campiness and boomers making references to the old show (see Mayor Adam West or FOP's Catman). Now this is my two cents but maybe it was also the infantilization of adults that became too noticeable with the MCU and the nostalgia cult that brought Adam West and Burt Ward to voice Batman and Robin for DTV animated movies and Batman 66 receiving a series of comics
Brayden Young
I get that, but you need to look at more specific stuff
The Batmobile of the 70s is clearly a modified Lincoln Futura
Barbara Gordon was an original character for the show
Mr. Freeze was invented for the show
Riddler was a very obscure villain, he appeared in two comics in 1948, then one more in 1965. The reason Riddler became so big was the work of Frank Gorshin portrayal
Also, 50s Batman was really horrible sci-fi trash, so in 1964 they did that New Look initiative. They got rid of the entire Bat family, including killing off Alfred. They also used less colorful villains in favor of generic gangsters. Catwoman hadn’t even appeared in a comic in over a decade before she was made a main villain for the show.
It’s compared to the Schumacher garbage a lot, but I don’t think it’s fair. It’s more like the Batman: The Animated Series of its time. Batman 66 was a consolidation of the Batman status quo based on the Batman comics from the 40s, 50s, and 60s, which would later go on to influence all Batman content after it (because even if you don’t immediately see it, there are huge Adam West influences on the Bronze/early Modern Age comics and especially Frank Miller’s work). Batman The Animated Series consolidated everything from the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s and later went on to influence just about every Batman comic/cartoon made after it as well
Isaac Lewis
I’d say Batman Year 100 is closer
Oliver Taylor
it really was fun for both kids and adults who want a laugh. It should really be appreciated for the history behind including cameo appearances of legendary actors like Bruce Lee and Sammy Davis Jr. For many who did not read the comics, this was their first exposure to Batman
Jace Rodriguez
People misread Frank tho. Remember that his Batman is Dick Sprang Batman + 20 years.
He didn't have a problem with comedic Batman, he had a problem with Batman as a "gag" character. The idea that Batman was the punchline is what boomers didn't like from the show.
What they didn't get was that Batman never was the punchline, society was.
Batman was always honorable, kind, smart, decent, ahead of everyone else, and martially superior (boi through a punch that put graphics in the air). Batman pointed out the stupidity of modern life by being a cartoon character brought to life by West.
The Batusi, for example, is really a satire of American teen culture at the time, exposed through the lens of Batman looking silly while he dances
Brandon Lewis
>Mr. Freeze was invented for the show
So you watched the youtube Dozier clip too huh? e messed up, Mr. zero was Freeze' original name but he was still in the comics.
Adrian Davis
Gabriel Richardson
Wikipedia is wrong. Mr. Zero isn’t Mr Freeze. Read the comic, Mr. Zero was cured of his cold illness in the end. Mr. Zero never appeared in comics again. Mr. Freeze didn’t appear in comics until years after he was introduced in the show
They’re the same character in the same way Captain Cold is
Angel Reed
I wish it took itself more seriously
Levi Moore
Mr. Zero was clearly a prototype version of Mr. Freeze is the point.
This issue of Batman has an early prototype version of Martian Manhunter. The issue was written by Gardner Fox, who went on to reuse the idea in the 50s to make Jon.
Jeremiah Evans
user. No, Freeze's literal first appearance in the comics under that name has Batman acknowledging he used to be Mr. Zero.
Same character. It's not like 'cures' ever stick to Batman villains.
Kevin Fisher
I wonder what a 70s Batman movie would have been like. Or early 80s.
There was this project to adapt Strange Apparitions into a film, and it just got wrung through development hell and finally after all those years the project became Burton’s 1989. No Robin, no relation to that comic.
There was a time where it would have been a serious reboot, but still pretty comics accurate, and then there was a time where it was gonna be a wacky Ivan Reitman comedy with Bill Murray as Batman and Michael J. Fox as Robin
There are scripts hanging out online
Jonathan Wright
Okay you got me. I actually hadn’t read that comic (I’m reading through old comics but haven’t read that one)
Matthew Roberts
Also, which issue is that?