LOS ANGELES -- Adam West, whose straight-faced portrayal of Batman in a campy 1960s TV series lifted the tight-clad Caped Crusader into the national consciousness, has died at age 88, his publicist ...

The original Batman television series from 1966, campy as it was, helped make the character a cultural icon. Before Batman ’66, DC Comics was considering canceling Detective Comics. Then suddenly, the ...

In 1966, Batman wasn’t just a movie — it was an explosion of pop culture that forever changed the landscape of superhero media. The iconic movie, starring Adam West and Burt Ward, epitomized the campy ...

Starting on Halloween, Logansport may become a destination for the 1960s Batman television series as well as comic book fans throughout the region. The Fiberglass Freaks Batman Museum will open on Oct ...

"Kapow! The debonair millionaire Bruce Wayne may seem like your average cool cat, but you would be wrong! With the flip of a Shakespeare head bust and… to the Batcave! Gotham City is filled with a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Batman fans have suggested that recent changes to Joker have all but “ruined the character.” The ...

This town needs an enema! In 1989, Jack Nicholson captivated audiences in Tim Burton’s Batman. Nicholson found the perfect mix of mirth and malice, making Joker one of cinema’s most memorable villains ...

The Batman series arrived at ABC as a more serious, action-adventure-oriented project. But in the pre-production phase, producer William Dozier decided the show would do much better as a campy comedy.

I grew up watching repeats of the Batman TV show, decades old by that point. With one of the catchiest theme tunes ever recorded and a tone so over-the-top it was out of the trenches and halfway ...