Just caught Batman The Brave and The Bold on Channel 5. Saturday morning cartoons, the best! I'm 52 in a month and still love 'em! Batman is one of my all time fave super heroes. I adored the Adam West series as a nipper in the Sixties. My cousin recently showed me a great old photo of him and his sister lead on the floor, chins in palms, watching that early Batman show on a black and white TV.
I think my bat-traction comes from all his gizmos and vehicles and in the early 1990's I collected as many of them as I could find. My very earliest collectables as an 'adult' included a mint window-boxed Corgi Juniors Batmobile, a couple of large Mego Batmobiles, a squad of Batman parachutist figures and a cool Remco energized Batman, which could ascend and descend his own grappling rope! Sadly I don't have any of these toys anymore. My 'toy dealer' period saw me sell everything. I do have a great photograph of them all though taken by a really good photographer circa 1995. Anyone else like the bat eared one?
Sure thing Woodsy, as my earliest tv memory is of a Batman cliffhanger moment!
ReplyDeleteCheers Arto
Nice collection there.
ReplyDeleteI loved Batman as a kid and watched the episodes avidly. I used to wear a big striped towel with a safety pin at the neck for my bat cloak...can still remember running around the back garden wearing it and singing the theme tune.
Funnily enough I was just reminiscing and laughing about that with my sister a couple of weeks ago as we watched one of the afternoon repeats of the Adam West series.
Never had a collection of Bat Toys though but did have a Corgi Batmobile. I loved the thick rubber tires and that spring loaded chopper thingy at the front. I was fascinated too by that little red tongue of fire that licked in and out of the back exhaust. That was the Corgi one wasn't it...with cannons sticking out the back trunk too that fired little red missiles?
Oh, also remember making a bat rope too...was great fun throwing the grappling end over a picket fence and then doing the bat climb along the path!
ReplyDeleteAh, those were the days! Same Bat Time, same Bat Channel!
Well, it's no secret I'm a Bat-nut! Toys & Stuff has already covered approximately 40+ Bat-vehicles and conveyances as well as the Villain-mobile's along with numerous Bat-stuff. I met Adam West at a car show in West Allis, Wisconsin back in the '70. He was touring with one of the 'touring' Batmobiles, built solely for going on the road for shows and not used during the filming. At the time, the thing was covered with an ugly black flocking, which I understand has since been removed and the bdy painted the iconic gloss black.
ReplyDeleteYup, I'm a fan
PS Woodsy - that was a terrifc collection. Any thoughts about re-acquiring some this stuff (Beware: prices have become CRAZY on some of those things)
ReplyDeleteI pinned my towel back around my neck after watching 'The Dark Knight Returns' (Frank Miller's 1980's re-ignition of a retired 60+ year old Batman) is worth checking out now on recent DVD animated movie.
ReplyDeleteI've been going through a Batman phase lately myself. I've really started focusing on collecting Batmobiles with particular emphasis on Corgi and Hot Wheels releases. This month on my blog I put up articles on the Hot wheels 66 Batcopter, the Corgi 50's Batmobile, and the Hot Wheels Brave and the Bold Batmobile. I'm sorry you had to sell your collection woodsy. I really like that picture!
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice collection that was, Mr Woods, shame it's gone. Yes, loved Batman, to the point of wanting to paint the symbol on the front of our house when I was eight or so. :) Had the Corgi Batmobile, a few comics, and a Batsuit which I did wear minus the hood and mask. Nowadays Adam West gets the occasional airing in the feature film on video (and I have the soundtrack to that on original 33rpm somewhere as well iirc).
ReplyDeleteBest -- Paul