And The Guns Shot Above Our Heads...

The Penguin rocks.

Paul Revere And The Raiders on Batman (Episode 51: "Hizzonner The Penguin").

And they say there's no such thing as perfection.

Halloween's coming

Get Mom to press your cape.

How To Be A Crook, Lesson 1

Step 1: Find out when Batman is making a personal appearance, typically by referring to the painted schedule that appears to his left.

Step 2: During the times when Batman is making said appearances, go steal a buncha stuff.

Step 3: Don't worry about Robin. He's worthless.

The Bitchin' Bat-Sounds Of The Batmobile.

I didn't know there was a stereo in the Batmobile.

What would they listen to? In the tape player pictured, that's It Might As Well Be Swing by Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, from 1964. Great record.

From the Gilbert Hall of Science.

The A.C. Gilbert Company gave us American Flyer electric trains, chemistry sets, the James Bond slot car set (it's so cool!) and this bitchin' Bat-watch.

They went belly up in 1967.

Germanic Joker

German actor Conrad Veidt’s portrayal of the character Gwynplaine in the 1928 UFA film "The Man Who Laughs"is commonly seen as the blueprint for Bob Kane's Joker. An adaptation of a Victor Hugo novel, the film was directed by German expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni, with Veidt in the title role.

A well-known film actor with a long career, Veidt also appeared as Cesare the somnambulist in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Grand Vizier Jaffar in The Thief of Bagdad, and as Major Heinrich Strasser in Casablanca. The latter role being especially notable as Veidt himself was a fervent anti-Nazi, who emigrated from Germany to England in 1933, one week after marrying Illona Prager, a Jewish woman. Veidt also played what is likely the first homosexual character written for the screen, in Richard Oswald’s pioneering gay rights film, Anders als die Andern (”Different From The Others”).

Veidt died of a heart attack in 1943 while playing golf in Los Angeles.

- from www.laughingsquid.com