One of our favourite characters, batman, spans across generations. He was the hero for kids the 1939’s and remains so today.

Batman spends his daily life as Bruce Wayne who runs his own well established business. His dark background,we are led to believe, is what gives him the dark persona, having witnessed the murder of his parents.

The two main characters in his life are his butler and Robin, his associate on the various mission he undertakes in his batman costume. Batman, unlike other super heroes of the time, has no super powers, although you might think he had when you see him in action in the comic strips and in recent films.

The public liked the character when it was launched and the longevity led to his appearance in a tv series in the 60’s.

We have followed batman in films, comic strips and movies for over 65 years, starting in a newspaper strip in 1943. 2 TV serials appeared in the 40’s which helped establish batman as a popular character and a household name.

In 1966 a tv series then featured a new series of batman and used camp humor to become a pop phenomenon. The actor West, wrote he was not happy with the description of “camp” for the series, but the show ran for 120 episodes, on this format.

Tv series continued with super friends, an animated version of batman from Hana Barbera. The voice over was non other than Adam West yet again