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There's a thing. Did the hot-line between BATMAN and COMMISSIONER GORDON exist in the comics before the TV series, or was it an invention of the show that the comics adopted? If you know, kindly tell the rest of us. And surely the police would've been able to trace the line and discover where Bats was 'phoning from? (Had they wanted to, of course.)
The hot line phone predates the TV series. It was introduced in Batman #164 (1964), as part of Julius Schwartz's New Look for the comic.
ReplyDeleteThe TV show did have an influence. The comic books' style became campier, with more comedy relief than before. The comics never got quite as self-consciously silly as the TV show, though.
Ta, TC. I probably read the tale, but the hot-line didn't register with me. Thank goodness for Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams, and the return of the Dark Knight Detective.
ReplyDeleteWhat occurred to me was how the word AND is missing from "Where are Batman Robin?". I can imagine now executives would argue over this and get it "corrected" and back then I didn't have a Bat-grammar checker on!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure whether I've noticed that before or not, Norman (if I did, I'd forgotten), because one tends to assume the 'and' is there and reads it as if it is. It would have been so easy to have it there, too. without upsetting the balance. Someone sure boobed.
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