REEL RETRO CINEMA: 1949’s BATMAN AND ROBIN

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Did you know there was a film titled Batman and Robin that doesn’t make the average Bat-Fan want to throw themselves in front of the nearest train? It’s true! It’s a 1949 movie serial starring the Darknight Detective and the Boy Wonder squaring off against the mysterious hooded bad guy known as the Wizard!

The Sound of Batman

"The Sound of Batman" - Zahler's Music of the Pulp Fiction Serial: After the Bat-Man debuted in Detective Comics (Vol...
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Adventures of Captain Marvel

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The number one movie of last year was based on a comic book. The year before, two of the top five movies were based on comics. The year before that, both of the two top movies of the year were inspired by comics; both went on to make more than $1 billion worldwide and are now among the top 15 highest-grossing movies in history. Next year, no less than ten (10) movies based on comic books will open in theaters. Blessed are the geeks, for they have inherited the earth, at least as far as Hollywood is concerned.

There was a time, not that long ago, when comic books were a niche subculture

I can remember watching these on TVO (TV Ontario, public TV) when I was a kid. I loved them! But then again, when you’re 5-6 you don’t have that great taste. HA!

THIS is/was the 1st #Batmobile

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In 1956, DC Comics (then called National Periodical Publications) officially licensed the first Batmobile to Oldsmobile. Forrest Robinson and friend Len Perham began modifying the car in 1960. They finished their work in 1963, beating the Burt Ward / Adam West Batman series by three years. The car is based on what the dynamic duo drives in the comic books; it's a far sleeker (if smaller) car than the 1939 Cadillac driven in the Batman movie serials of the 1940s. 

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