... twenty-eight years Batman was just another cliff-hanger comic strip character amid the welter of America's Technicolor heroes, Then they made him into a TV star. Since the twice - weekly series began in January, America hes gone mad for Batman and his faithful ...

... glamorous girl does a Batusi dance wearing a Batman cape and mask and the bottom half of a bikini. That's all. At least 130 firms are producing Batman items. One company has sold nearly half a million Batman sweatshirts, and they can't keep up with the ...

... to turn out Batman products. You can decorate your room with Batman wallpaper, read by the light of a Batlamp, eat Batman ice cream, keep the rain off with a Batcape, fly a Batkite, drip dry on a Batman bathmat and even sleep with Batman ...

... Hooked Parents are hooked on Batman, too. It's fashionable to be a grown-up Batfan in America today. Twice a week the nation goes into a hysteria of hoots as the tongue-in-cheek series plunges Batman into yet another impos- Joan Kemp-Welch and husband ...

... Gear This year Batman gear will bring in an estimated £25,000,000. In the T V series Batman is played by veteran actor Ad a m West. Twenty-year-old ex-college student Burt Ward plays Robin, the youthful helper who comes out with expressions like ...

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