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All Day With Batman

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • July 30, 2012 1:00 AM
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Now that we’ve all had our close encounter with the Dark Knight, allow me to wax nostalgic about one of my all-time happiest moviegoing experiences. Following the huge success of ABC’s campy 'Batman' TV series, Columbia Pictures reissued the original 15-chapter 'Batman' serial from 1943 to theaters.

Capes, Crooks & Cliffhangers: Heroic Serial Posters PF The Golden Age

  • By Leonard Maltin
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  • December 9, 2009 3:44 AM
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By John E. Petty and Grey Smith;
foreword by Noel Neill


I’ve always been nutty about serials; if you feel the same way you’ll want this book in your library. Although its raison d’etre is to show off a gallery of posters, there is ample text that chronicles the history of the genre from the silent era to its demise in the 1950s. The authors don’t pretend to be comprehensive; this is more a survey than a history, and the emphasis is on famous heroes and superheroes (Superman, Batman, The Green Hornet....