![]() We hadn’t had a live-action comic book crusader on the screen, large or small, since the late George Reeves hung up his red cape a few years earlier. We were still in the midst of the James Bond-inspired spy craze and Marvel’s four color renaissance when BATMAN was announced as a new TV series – part of ABC’s much-ballyhooed “Second Season.” Given how fanciful and outrageous the mid-‘60s were, this seemed perfectly logical. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sherman, set the Way Back machine for early 1966… Okay, so I was more of a Monster Kid than a superhero geek but anything fantastic, over-the-top or weirdly menacing had tremendous appeal to us reality-challenged boomers of the day.
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