{"id":41553,"date":"2014-03-28T19:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/28\/holy-obituary-batman.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:47:40","slug":"holy-obituary-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/28\/holy-obituary-batman.html","title":{"rendered":"Holy Obituary, Batman!"},"content":{"rendered":"
In some ways, the "Batman" TV show was the worst thing that ever happened to the character, and to comics, turning the whole medium in popular culture into (literally, to judge by the headlines) "Biff! Wham! Pow!"<\/p>\n

On the other hand … Batmaaaaaaan! (BATMAN (TV Series) – Network Promo Reel – 1966 – Adam West & Burt Ward<\/a>)<\/p>\n

So, thanks, Mr. Semple.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

\n \n <\/div>\n

Lorenzo Semple Jr., Creator of ‘Batman’ TV Series, Dead at 91 – TheWrap<\/a>
\n Also wrote films including “The Parallax View,” “Three Days of the Condor,” “King Kong” and “Never Say Never Again”\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In some ways, the "Batman" TV show was the worst thing that ever happened to the character, and to comics, turning the whole medium in popular culture into (literally, to judge by the headlines) "Biff! Wham! Pow!" On the other hand … Batmaaaaaaan! (BATMAN (TV Series) – Network Promo Reel – 1966 – Adam West … Continue reading “Holy Obituary, Batman!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-41553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134398,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/ranking-dcs-animated-tv-series.html","url_meta":{"origin":41553,"position":0},"title":"Ranking DC’s Animated TV Series","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Aug-17 11:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't necessarily agree with this force-ranking (who ever does?), but it's a great reminder of some fantastic (and a few not-so-fantastic) animated series of decades past, and it's worth it just for that. If you don't want to page through show by show, here are their rankings: 22. Teen\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/batman-beyond.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":131777,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/batman-1966-concept-art.html","url_meta":{"origin":41553,"position":1},"title":"Batman (1966) concept art","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Oct-16 10:37pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very cool pre-production drawings for various episodes of the Batman TV series. The full set is here: http:\/\/batgirlbat-trap.com\/omake\/lesliethomas.html[h\/t +J. Steven York] The concept art from the 1966 'Batman' series was absolutely beautiful There's a darker vibe to these preproduction paintings. View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129461,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/holy-golden-anniversary-batman.html","url_meta":{"origin":41553,"position":2},"title":"Holy Golden Anniversary, Batman!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Jan-16 10:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Crikey -- the \"Batman\" TV show premiered 50 years ago today.It's a show I've had a long love\/hate relationship with. I loved the puns, and the zany plots, and the guest actors, and the campy earnestness. On the other hand, that campy style dominated public perception of comic book characters\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133615,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/05\/suffering-sappho.html","url_meta":{"origin":41553,"position":3},"title":"Suffering Sappho!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Jun-17 4:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I would deem this a hoax -- that nothing this awful could ever possibly been created -- save that the sound quality, FX, and voice-over are all straight out of William Dozier's Batman studio. Granted, it's only a screen test \/ proof of concept, but Wonder Woman as a 60s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127547,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/19\/rip-yvonne-craig.html","url_meta":{"origin":41553,"position":4},"title":"RIP, Yvonne Craig","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Aug-15 7:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The actress was best known for her hip, liberated role as Batgirl in the final season of the Batman TV series -- though she also played a crazy green Orion girl on an episode of Star Trek She did a ton of TV and some movies all through the 60s\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130190,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/14\/id-be-a-lot-more-interested-in-this-batman-v-superman-flick.html","url_meta":{"origin":41553,"position":5},"title":"I'd be a lot more interested in this "Batman v Superman" flick","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 14-Mar-16 8:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Glowering. With love. \"Batman v Superman\": The\u2026 Rom-Com? We\u2019re not the first people consider a Clark Kent-Bruce Wayne romance, but since we also have a crack video team, we decided to tweak the \u201cBatman v Superman\u201d trailer to see what a rom-com between the two would look like. Behold: \u201cBatman\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50668,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41553\/revisions\/50668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}