DC Announce '66 Batman Comic

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QuoteDC Announces 1966 'Batman' Comic By Jeff Parker, Jonathan Case and Michael Allred

   
Mar 22nd 2013 By: Chris Sims


 
Finally, after forty-five years, writers across the country have a good reason to drop "Biff! Pow!" into their headlines again. After finally settling licensing issues last year and paving the way for toys and merchandise based on the classic Adam West Batman show, DC will be publishing a new digital-first Batman '66 series by Jeff Parker and Eisner-winning artist Jonathan Case, with covers by Michael Allred.

The Batman '66-inspired stories are scheduled to hit Comixology and the DC app this summer, where they'll join their fellow TV-inspired properties, Smallville Season 11 and Arrow, along with the digital-first Legends of the Dark Knight and Adventures of Superman, for which Parker is also writing a story.

While specific storyline information has yet to be revealed, Parker did confirm to ComicsAlliance that, like the show, the first Special Guest Villain of the comic will be the Riddler, with Catwoman also appearing to challenge the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder. He even provided us with one of Case's sketches for the product, featuring a Frank Gorshin-inspired version of the Riddler:

Stories that referenced the look of the classic Batman show haven't exactly been all that rare over the past few years -- Mike Allred's issue of Solo was to come with a cover of the '60s-style Batman dancing the Batusi (the published version featured Donna Troy in the same pose), Warren Ellis and John Cassaday's Batman/Planetary featured multiple versions of Batman that included a West-inspired cameo that fought with Bat-Sleep gas from his utility belt, and the iconic, George Barris-designed Batmobile has made cameos all over the place. This, though, is the first time DC has gone with a full-on '66 aesthetic for a full series.

Case, a studio-mate of Parker's in Portland's Periscope Studios, hasn't done work for DC before, but his clean, expressive style and the eye-popping colors being used for the promo art make a pretty solid fit for Batman '66's world of Dutch angles and deathtraps.

Details have yet to be released on whether the series will be ongoing, but one hopes that it'll at least run long enough for the return of Surf Jams Joker.

Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/03/22/batman-classic-tv-series-comic-jeff-parker-jonathan-case-michael-allred/#ixzz2OKEPjudj

Digital format, huh? Should be interesting. I can imagine the die hard "darker" Batman fans must be spitting bile over this news.  8)
QuoteJonathan Nolan: He [Batman] has this one rule, as the Joker says in The Dark Knight. But he does wind up breaking it. Does he break it in the third film?

Christopher Nolan: He breaks it in...

Jonathan Nolan: ...the first two.

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Sat, 23 Mar 2013, 02:48 #1
does this mean it won't be like a comic book in like stores?
Sat, 23 Mar 2013, 03:47 #2
Quote from: Catwoman on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 02:48
does this mean it won't be like a comic book in like stores?
Digital means computer based, so you work it out.
Sat, 23 Mar 2013, 04:25 #3
Sorry, I can't hear any of you over how awesome this is!!
Sat, 23 Mar 2013, 04:36 #4
Quote from: thecolorsblend on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 04:25
Sorry, I can't hear any of you over how awesome this is!!
It is awesome. 60s Batman is back. Merchandise, comics...just need the Blu-rays.
Sat, 23 Mar 2013, 04:46 #5
Quote from: Catwoman on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 02:48
does this mean it won't be like a comic book in like stores?

Well, it will be digital-first, with each issue getting a print version in stores a couple of weeks later.
"There's just as much room for the television series and the comic books as there is for my movie. Why wouldn't there be?" - Tim Burton
Sat, 23 Mar 2013, 05:13 #6
Quote from: DocLathropBrown on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 04:46
Quote from: Catwoman on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 02:48
does this mean it won't be like a comic book in like stores?

Well, it will be digital-first, with each issue getting a print version in stores a couple of weeks later.

thank you.

kiss my ass tdk.
Sat, 23 Mar 2013, 08:00 #7
Quote from: Catwoman on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 05:13
Quote from: DocLathropBrown on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 04:46
Quote from: Catwoman on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 02:48
does this mean it won't be like a comic book in like stores?

Well, it will be digital-first, with each issue getting a print version in stores a couple of weeks later.

thank you.

kiss my ass tdk.

I don't think he was being rude... at least not as far as I can tell.

Not many people know about the print editions, but I work in a comic shop so I thought I'd spread the knowledge.
"There's just as much room for the television series and the comic books as there is for my movie. Why wouldn't there be?" - Tim Burton
Sat, 23 Mar 2013, 11:47 #8
Quote from: DocLathropBrown on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 08:00
Quote from: Catwoman on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 05:13
Quote from: DocLathropBrown on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 04:46
Quote from: Catwoman on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 02:48
does this mean it won't be like a comic book in like stores?

Well, it will be digital-first, with each issue getting a print version in stores a couple of weeks later.

thank you.

kiss my ass tdk.

I don't think he was being rude... at least not as far as I can tell.

Not many people know about the print editions, but I work in a comic shop so I thought I'd spread the knowledge.

trust me. he was being rude. he hates me.
Sat, 23 Mar 2013, 13:27 #9
Quote from: Catwoman on Sat, 23 Mar  2013, 11:47
trust me. he was being rude. he hates me.
If rude means pointing out basic facts, sure, I was being rude.

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