What Time Is It?

Party time?
Daylight savings time?
Taco Time?

No.

It's...

Batusi time!!!

"Some Days You Just Can't Get Rid Of A Bomb!"

And if you had one of these in your arsenal, why would you want to?

Batman Goes 3-D

"Twenty One View-Master Stereo Pictures" was what the 1966 package said. It also boasted of a "16 Page Batbooklet, Dynamically Illustrated."



Three reels of seven shots each, containing 3-D production stills shot during the filming of the Catwoman episode, "The Purr-Fect Crime," featuring the meow-alicious Julie Newmar and her feline friends. And her hips squeezed into that black bodysuit...




The 3-D effect was surprisingly good - those guys at View-Master certainly knew what they were doing. Must have been a great place to work at, unless that is, you were the one gluing all the little film snippets into those notched reels...


One of the images from the set. The non-3-D version.

Why don't they make cool stuff like this anymore???

Z-O-O-O-M! Into Dreamland With Batman

Look at this thing. Really look at it*. Study it. Soak up all that greatness.

Now, why isn't the Batmobile parked in all our bedrooms?

* Be sure to use the Atomic Bat-Enlarger.

Did This Thing Get Tha Interwebs?

You know it did...

The Bat-Puter!

Special Guest Villains: Sun Ra And Al Kooper.

This is the kind of thing that causes Record Geekdom.

Back in 1966, this toy company outta Newark, New Jersey, decided to cash in on the Batman craze. Why not, everybody else was doing it?

So they got some musicians. Those musicians made up a bunch of stuff in the studio, some of it based on classical stuff that wouldn't cost anything. They gave the tunes some Bat-ish titles. And POW!, you got yourself a Batman record, credited to the "Sensational Guitars Of Dan And Dale."

Cash-in records like this — whipped up around some theme in an effort to snag the dough of unsuspecting consumers — were all over the place in the mid-60s. (There are dozens of Beatle-y ones.) Well, in this case, the nameless session players turned out to be members of the Sun Ra Arkestra and Al Kooper's Blues Project. Kind of a coup, really — not that the people making this thing probably cared.

You find this thing sitting in a thrift store every once in a while, and you realize that people musta really liked it — they sure played the crap out of it.

And you can play the crap out of it, too. Just activate the Bat-Downloader.

We're All Bruce Wayne

When I was a kid, my Mother made me a Batman costume by hand. Somewhere, there is a black & white photo of me in my costume standing in the living room circa 1968 and I've gotta admit, it's pretty badass.

Seems like everybody was getting into the act. I can't remember how many Batmans there were that Halloween, but I'll bet I wasn't the only one. I may, however, have been the only one with a custom, Mom-made suit.

I've still got the cowl that my mother sewed from scratch.