Re: Batman #687????

Eminence <grey.eminence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:14:18 -0800 (PST), "blackjet76@xxxxxxx"
<blackjet76@xxxxxxx> wrote:

No, the movies don't usually reflect the comics...but the comics
do usually reflect the movies...at least the popular ones...

Or Batman, in the late '60s', when the various Bat titles seemed to
be permanently possessed by Adam West and Burt Ward.  Or this very
day, if you look at the Joker -- it will be many a long year until
the Clown Prince of Crime quits looking like Heath Ledger.

By the start of the Adam West Batman series Carmine Infantino had
already given Batman and Robin the "new look." This happened in 1964.
The television didn't debut until 1966. It wasn't the tv show
influencing the comic. It was the comic influencing the tv show.

But as "Batmania" swept the nation, Batman's own title became more
influenced by the campiness of the tv show, and his role in JLA became
more prominent.

Eminence _______________ Usenet: Global Village of the Damned


Read the bulk of the DC line in 1963-65, before the BATMAN TV series
began. Aside from the war books, nearly the entire line was engulfed in
silliness. Barry Allen's transformations, the Titans' "hip" plots,
Superman's increasingly implausible "imaginary stories", and so forth. It
was actually =during= the TV series that DC began making an effort to get
away from the camp, putting first Robbins and Novick then, famously,
O'Neil and Adams to work on again making the Dark Knight a dark knight.

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