Talk #246

Title:<I>BATMAN</I> THE LIVE-ACTION SERIES
Category:comics
Timeslot:Thu 02:30 pm (90 minutes)
Location:ACC / 207-A
Description:Forty years ago, in 1966, the American airwaves were hit with a "camp classic" before anyone knew what that meant. <i>Batman</i> was so popular, with it's "pows" and "whams" and over-the-top villains it ran <u>two</u> nights a week. How did that series change the television (and popular culture) landscape? What effect did the series have on the comics it came from?
Speaker(s):Alan Dean Foster, Steve Englehart, Charles Lee Jackson II(M), Len Wein, Doselle Young