And now, something I've been wanting to do for years... the 1966 BATMAN newspaper strip!
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Interesting. It's obviously based on the TV show though Catwoman vowing to kill the Caped Crusaders is against her character.
Robin doesn't come off well here for some reason.
Apparently Catwoman hired the Ant Hill Mob as her henchmen! ;-)
IIRC Catwoman on the TV show often put the Dynamic Duo in life-threatening situations.
Even with the tone of the TV show it's hard to believe that they would let CW wear a mask in her cell, and that the supervisor/warden would refer to the guard as "Female Guard Schultz".
I made much the same comments, but I went to Henry's Wayback machine site and made them there.
Guess that explains why they didn't show up here. LOL!
"What an odd strip...it doesn't feel quite right. Batman is forever correcting Robin, and Robin just hangs his head in shame. And they both miss the cat walking out...then can't figure it out and lay a trap for the escape. Somehow it feels right for the 1966 Batman TV show, but just doesn't work as a Batman/Robin comic! How long did this run?"
...Did the strip launch on a Tuesday ???
It directly replaced the SUPERMAN newspaper strip , BTW ~ Did the Super-strip get a last Monday ?
I wondered about the date. I read the strip started on May 30, but the 5th strip I had was clearly from Saturday.
Here's the thing... Monday May 30 would have been Memorial Day. I'm not sure if THE COURIER POST published a paper that day! Keep in mind, back then, they only published 6 days a week. No Sunday papers! And while we did buy both THE PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN and THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER-- only on Sundays-- and mostly to get the color comics-- neither of them ran BATMAN, either.
I mention that because THE COURIER POST ran THE PHANTOM... and so did THE BULLETIN. So I did get to read THE PHANTOM 7 days a week-- which was 2 completely separate storylines at any given time. As was, I've found out, BATMAN. Except to this day, I've never read any of the Sunday stories from that run.
I also wondered if there might have been a "teaser" strip for May 30, just to promote the new strip, without any actual story.
As far as I know, I managed to get EVERY one of the strips in the 1st story.
I also collected the 2nd & 3rd stories, but never got around to putting them in scrapbooks. Also, I recall MISSING several episodes in the middle of the 3rd one-- possibly because we took a (rare) trip for us away from home for a few days. I also have a strong feeling I never read the end of the 3rd story, either... THE COURIER-POST long had a had habit of dropping adventure strips, and ALWAYS, I mean ALWAYS, in the middle of a story. The feature editor was clearly an (FILL IN THE BLANK).
I don't remember ever seeing a SUPERMAN strip in our area... though I do (vaguely) remember THE WORLD'S GREATEST SUPER-HEROES strip... was that the name? Late 80's or so? Was never thrilled with the art (George Tuska?) or writing on that one.
I've been reading some blog articles by other fans, and it seems the 60's BATMAN strip got dropped by a LOT of paper before too long. This may explain the repeated changes in artists. If they were getting paid based on how many papers the strip appeared in, each drop in circulation might have been followed by a lower-paying artist taking it over.
Well, whatta ya know? Thanks to Steve Thompson ("Booksteve"), I found out the '66 BATMAN strip DID start on 5-30-66 after all-- and, he sent me a scan of the FIRST strip, which I have never laid eyes on until today!!!
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