Batman vs. Jackie

She REALLY crawled over the trunk of a car very much like the Batmobile, once.

Jackie wins. Even though her "engagement" is "rumored."

Not much of a story there, predecessor to The Weekly World News.



And is it just me, or is the picture of Adam West next to Burt Ward in costume with "His Exciting Love Life" down and to the right just a little bit creepy?

Is that what the "BONUS" is all about?

Well, at least it wasn't back and to the left...

Living with Howard Hughes probably didn't help.

Robin: "Venus seemed like a nice girl in that costume."

Batman: "I suspect she is a nice girl down deep, but she's fallen in with bad companions. And who knows what her home life was like."

Terry Moore as Venus Flytrap.

Since...

...we've never published a photo of Julie Newmar here, I thought it was about high time!

And I promise it'll never happen again.


Yeah, and robins will fly out of my Bat-Butt.

What kind of man reads The Batman Annual?

And more importantly, what's he doing living in his Mom's basement?

Eggscrutiating

A great audio clip of Adam West and Vincent Price on The Mike Douglas Show...

LISTEN.

(for CD)

Big Little Bat-Book.

Written by George S. Elrick. No artist listed. Published by Whitman, as part of their Big Little Book series, in 1969 — and countless times after that.

This didn't show up till the TV show was long gone. But since Batman was in syndication by the time I freaked out over it, The Cheetah Caper was very much a part of my whole Gotham City experience.

In (Batman And Robin In) The Cheetah Caper, a lot of peanut butter is being swiped around Gotham City, and it's up to the Dynamic Duo to figure out who's responsible. It's kinda stupid, really. But it's kinda great, too.

The author, George S. Elrick, wrote many of the Big Little Books that I loved as a kid: Bonanza (The Bubble Gum Kid), The Lone Ranger Outwits Crazy Cougar, Major Matt Mason (Moon Mission) and whatever that Man From UNCLE one was called.

Ladies and Gentlemen...

...I give you:



Richard John "Dick" Grayson

In all of his spread-eagle glory.