View Full Version : Why this ridiculous 1966 Batman movie is the most important Batman movie ever


TMC
07-31-2016, 02:12 AM
http://theweek.com/articles/639355/why-ridiculous-1966-batman-movie-most-important-batman-movie-ever

In his infamous 1954 screed Seduction of the Innocent, Fredric Wertham, diabolical doctor of moral righteousness, wrote about the evils of comic books. (He was thinking about the children, allegedly.) His study, since disproven as manipulative and deeply flawed, scared protective parents and tainted comic books for decades. The superheroes to whom Wertham dedicates the largest section of his diatribe are Batman and Robin, who, the doctor attests, are actually a gay couple; he cites as evidence the fact that they have a butler (a butler!) and a fondness for flowers (flowers!). Over the next 10 years, in no small part because of Wertham's accusations, Batman went through a lot of changes. You may