“Batman” at 60

Holy Geritol, can it really be 60 years since “Batman” premiered on television? Yes, it’s shocking but true.

Not that I was paying much attention back on January 12, 1966, being all of 9 months old, but I’d care soon enough. Many a childhood afternoon was spent watching Adam West and Burt Ward tussle with an endless parade of celebrity guest villains, then recreating their exploits in the backyard with my brother, Tim (who was always stuck being Robin…sorry, Tim).

I shared my thoughts on the show here back on its 50th anniversary, and somehow it’s more distressing grappling with the fact that a whole decade has sped by since then, but anyway time marches on and all that. We lost Mr West in the interim, and indeed only a handful of show veterans are still around, but the show will live on forever in syndication, not to mention every comic-related news article that starts off with “Zap, Bam, Pow.” Fads come and go, but lazy journalism is eternal, so…yay?

Head on over to the 13th Dimension website to celebrate Batman ’66 with a series of fun articles, or just take a moment to hum that earworm of a theme song, permanently drilled into the collective unconscious of humankind whether we like it or not. Live action superheroics may or may not have been done better over the last 60 years, but they’ve rarely been more fun.