Batman '66 seemed like a bizarre enough premise before the series debuted last year.
Re-telling new Batman stories set in the continuity of the 1960's television series suggested a serving of nostalgia that would be catering to a decidedly niche fan-base. As much as we love watching Burt Ward and Adam West take the Bat-Boat to old Havana for a night of Bat-Mamboing, the original TV series remains an uncut dose of camp. Transposing those same hyper-kinetic, Technicolor aesthetics into comic book form not only makes sense mechanically, but it has also introduced an entirely new readership to the pop-art styling of the old TV series. In issue 13 the dynamic duo get meta as an unlicensed television adaptation of the caped crusaders' exploits hit Gotham's airwaves and threaten to blow up the spot of Batman and Robin. Issue 13 hits shelves this Wednesday.
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