“Celebrating An Icon: A History of The Batmobile” - The Dynamic Adventures of ‘Batman and Robin’: From 1943’s 15 chapter black and white serial film “Batman” to headlining several comic book publications, throughout the 1940s DC Comics’ Batman and Robin became more popular than ever, eventually gaining a second 15 chapter serial series by Columbia Pictures , debuting on May 26, 1949. Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and produced by Sam Katzman (creator of 1948's 'Superman' serial), in “Batman a

Debut of the Day: The Batmobile first appeared outside of DC comic books 80 years ago in Lambert Hillyer’s 15 chapter black and white serial film “Batman” released by Columbia Pictures in 1943. After “the Bat-Man”’s 1939 debut in ‘Detective Comics’, the character’s popularity continued to rise in National Allied Publications (today’s DC), receiving his own self titled book a year later in April 1940. As the adventures of Batman and his young sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder (Dick Grayson) evolved t