As is often the case in Hollywood, though, the answer is probably the simplest: money. The producers of Batman were ...

For the big screen, Batman (Adam West) and Robin (Burt Ward) had to take on The Joker (Cesar Romero), The Riddler (Frank Gorshin), The Penguin (Burgess Meredith), and Catwoman (Lee Meriwether) in ...

In the world of pop culture, the 1960s birthed a lot of “manias,” but there’s no question that the biggest were Beatlemania in music, Bondmania on the big screen and Batmania on the small ...

Psychologists, film and comic book creators, and Adam West, the 1960s Batman himself, gathered at San Diego Comic-Con International to explore the psychopathy of the Joker.

Sure, it's campy, but West's Batman is an eternal optimist who knows how to throw a punch and has a mind sharper than a batarang. The series featured several Hollywood legends as Batman's various ...

ADAM West — an actor defined and also constrained by his role in the 1960s series “Batman” — died Friday night in Los Angeles. He was 88.