FOLLOWING THEIR USUAL Cliffhanger ending, Batman & Robin managed to escape from their being dipped into a huge cauldron of molten, boiling candle-maker's wax by Batman's using his mirror-like utility belt buckle to reflect the sunbeams into a huge container of unstable chemical explosive.(Global Warming?) This caused an explosion and both freed the Dynamic Duo and at the dame time rendered them unconscious .
THE ACTION SHIFTED to Gotham City Museum and to some rare Incan Sarcophagus remains. Robin gets separated from Batman, but is freed from being broken on the Rack in the final encounter.
ALL'S WELL THAT ends well, with Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and Aunt Harriet being shown as visiting the museum Ancient Peruvian Incan Culture display.
THIS TWO Part installment continues the tradition established in this first season of having an intelligently written story for the screenplay. We've long contended that and of these early episodes would have stood on their own merits as part of another series sans the "Camp Humor" aspect.
AS FOR THE use of the cliffhanger endings for the first half of the installments was an obvious adaptation from the old Movie Serials. It was also a sort of homage to their now state of extinction.
BUT THERE DOES appear to be yet another source of ancestry to these bondage ridden fade-outs. That would be the covers of Detective Comics and Batman magazines. The older covers in particular often had such depictions; whether or not the scene portrayed had any relation to the stories contained within or not.
AND TO BE sure, the producer's team did a yeoman's job in researching the Batman feature, going back to its earliest days. That is our theory on how the Riddler came to be a top adversary and lead-off man for the series. Let us explain.
PRIOR TO APPROX 2 years before the BATMAN series hit the airwaves as a part of ABC's 'Second Season', the character of the Riddler had appeared in only two stories in issues of Detrective Comics, Numbers 140 & 142. This was in 1948. Our guess is that some staffer noted the resemblance to the very popular comedian & impressionist, Mr. Frank Gorshin.
WITH A CONFERENCE between producer William Dozier and the big wigs at National Comics/DC brought the character back for another chance and multiple stories were published featuring the Riddler in 1964-65. He was even given a big build-up with full page announcement that he "was back"; when the typical reader didn't even know that he was gone.
BUT THAT IS our theory. Both Schultz and myself would like to hear yours!
THE ACTION SHIFTED to Gotham City Museum and to some rare Incan Sarcophagus remains. Robin gets separated from Batman, but is freed from being broken on the Rack in the final encounter.
ALL'S WELL THAT ends well, with Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson and Aunt Harriet being shown as visiting the museum Ancient Peruvian Incan Culture display.
THIS TWO Part installment continues the tradition established in this first season of having an intelligently written story for the screenplay. We've long contended that and of these early episodes would have stood on their own merits as part of another series sans the "Camp Humor" aspect.
AS FOR THE use of the cliffhanger endings for the first half of the installments was an obvious adaptation from the old Movie Serials. It was also a sort of homage to their now state of extinction.
BUT THERE DOES appear to be yet another source of ancestry to these bondage ridden fade-outs. That would be the covers of Detective Comics and Batman magazines. The older covers in particular often had such depictions; whether or not the scene portrayed had any relation to the stories contained within or not.
AND TO BE sure, the producer's team did a yeoman's job in researching the Batman feature, going back to its earliest days. That is our theory on how the Riddler came to be a top adversary and lead-off man for the series. Let us explain.
PRIOR TO APPROX 2 years before the BATMAN series hit the airwaves as a part of ABC's 'Second Season', the character of the Riddler had appeared in only two stories in issues of Detrective Comics, Numbers 140 & 142. This was in 1948. Our guess is that some staffer noted the resemblance to the very popular comedian & impressionist, Mr. Frank Gorshin.
WITH A CONFERENCE between producer William Dozier and the big wigs at National Comics/DC brought the character back for another chance and multiple stories were published featuring the Riddler in 1964-65. He was even given a big build-up with full page announcement that he "was back"; when the typical reader didn't even know that he was gone.
BUT THAT IS our theory. Both Schultz and myself would like to hear yours!