#1966 bookworm

[rin-the-shadow]

They're nerding out over a book of riddles, which in my mind, was in a language Riddler doesn't know, but which Bookworm translated for him. I wanted to get their expressiveness at a level that's appropriate to their characters, since while Riddler tends to use very big expressions and a lot of movements, Bookworms expressions, even when he is blatantly nerding out, tend to be very strictly controlled, with his facial expressions sometimes coming off as almost muted at times, except in moments where he briefly flies into a rage.

And of course, since it's also autism acceptance month, I kind of wanted to draw some fanart of two of my favorite autistic headcanon characters interacting. I've loved the idea of them having a villainous friendship for awhile, which I think was further cemented by Riddler's mentioning Bookworm as one of the guys he never sees anymore during his lament in When is a Door? as well as that fanart I reblogged awhile back.

#let them nerd out! #bookworm #60s bookworm #1966 bookworm #riddler #1966 riddler #60s riddler #gorshin riddler #fanart #rin does fanart #rin does headcanons #i love these characters so much #and tbh i am also barely holding myself back at this moment #from rambling about how the comic spinoff really did not do bookworm justice #but 1. that is a separate post in and of itself #and 2. i would need to re-read the issues he was in to be clear of what i wanted to say and how #rin rambles #rin rambles in the tags #autistic riddler #autistic bookworm

[allthegothihopgirls]

A head canon I have for Jason is that his favorite rogue is Bookworm. Bookworm was really only ever in the 60’s show so he’s never canonically fought Jason to my knowledge but he’s basically the Riddler but for books instead of riddles. Any time Bookworm and Jason fight it basically devolves into book club so just like

I’m imagining Jason goes for his first battle with Bookworm as Red Hood and his comms cut out mid fight so Dick and Bruce run in for backup

And they kick down the door to try and free Jason

Only to see Jason and Bookworm sitting on the floor, drinking wine, and talking about the subtextual queer coding in Jane Eyre

yeah and he 100% gives him the same kind of treatment the bats give harley (in my head). knows he's harmless and will only act out if provoked, so he gives him the benefit of the doubt + trusts him to live freely 97% of the time. (he was also single-handedly the person who protested against him being put in arkham asylum for the rest of his life)

he genuinely meets up with bookworm over coffee, although partially to check in on him and make sure he's not going to begin a 100+ murder rampage again, he's also just having a chat with a friend about the book he recommended to him last time he had to hunt him down... and the political state of the world.

when he does find himself locked up, whether that be in a ward or arkham, although jason doesn't always visit (business and all) he always makes sure the facilities can provide him with something suitable to read.

news gets out to the bats about bookworm having a breakdown and going off the radar, and jason's more insistent than he's ever been when he says he's going after him alone. he truly believes he isn't evil by nature, and knows that all it takes to bring him down is a familiar face and a well-read intellectual conversation.

naturally when jason's out of reach and bruce + dick are tasked with stopping bookworm, they think it's going to be a piece of cake considering what they know about jason's history with catching him. but god are they so wrong. they get him in the end of course, but really have to take a second and ask themselves how the fuck jason not only enjoys working bookworm shifts, but has completely TAMED a rogue like that.

#ok i know he's definitely FAR from harmless but just pretend... #i love i love i LOVE #asks #hurdy-girly #!!!!!!!! #dc bookworm #jason todd #red hood #robin #batboys #batkids #dc comics #dcu #dc #dc batman #batman 1966 #gothihop speaks

[noritaro]

Could you draw Bookworm from the 1966 show?

I lub him

there are so many literal gems of villains from the 60s show, it's a crime that DC doesn't use em more often

#60s batman #batman 1966 #Bookworm #dc #dc comics #nori art #rallazarthemagnificent

[pandorasboxofhorrors]

#Halloween #batman #Batman 1966 #the bookworm #the mad hatter

[nonbinary-bitch]

I thought to myself "this ship is very autism" and here we are

#batman 1966 #batman 66 #the riddler #dc riddler #riddler #edward nygma #dc bookworm #bookworm #bookworm 1966 #bookworm 66 #riddler 66 #riddler 1966 #60's batman #gay #old love

[starleska]

If i had a nickel for every time DC comics made a technology-savvy british hypnotist with the word ‘Mad’ in their name id have 2 nickels- anyway heard you liked Jervis so ive come to recommend you a video: https://youtu.be/S_hraZJuGFc?si=RpPOX0V_EipB9kk-

Its of btas jervis’s voice actor (Roddy McDowall, who, fun fact, also played Bookworm in the 66 show!) reading out the novel version of Batman (1989)!

Hope you enjoy :]

!!!!!!! oh wow wow wow...Roddy McDowall has such an exquisite voice, perfect for reading stories 🥺💖 may he rest in peace...i'm so grateful we were able to experience his talent!!! i love the way he stutters and trips over his words with such energy...he's so eloquent with such pretty diction, but can convey such urgency with his voice alone 🔥 thank you for sending this, i'm going to have a blast listening to the full thing :3c

ahhhhh i love Bookworm!!!!! this is a character who deserves more attention 🥰💖 so cruel and crazy and clever...there's just such incredible charm when you really lean into the old-school camp of Batman. it cracks me up, thinking about a character like Bookworm in the Reevesverse...that's what we'd have if he were brave enough 😂💖

#mad mod #mad hatter #bookworm #batman #batman 66 #neil richards #jervis tetch #the mad hatter #the bookworm #i.n. kingor #roddy mcdowall #batman 1966 #starleskasks

[nerds-yearbook]

On April 20, 1966, Roddy McDowall appeared for the first time as the Bookworm. The episode was also noteworthy as it started the motif of a celebrity appearing out a window as Batman was climbing a wall. The first window cameo was Jerry Lewis. ("The Bookworm Turns", Batman, TV, Event)

#nerds yearbook #real life event #first appearance #tv #batman #april #1966 #bookworm #roddy mcdowall #hendrick vollaerts #bob kane #larry peerce #adam west #robin #burt ward #neil hamilton #commissioner james gordon #stafford repp #chief o'hara #madge blake #mrs cooper #roydon clark #william dozier #jerry lewis

[batman66sexyrogues]

Semi/Finals Match 5

#66sexyroguescompetition #penguin #1966 penguin #bookworm #60s bookworm #polls #semi/finals

[probablycraze]

Currently thinking of bookworm from the Batman 1966 tv series and how he is so baby girl

#batman #Batman 1966 #gotham #the bookworm #Batman bookworm

[garrett-strangelove]

Bookworm, my sunshine 📚🐛

So bad he was only in two episodes.

#art #drawing #fan art #batman #dc #batman '66 #batman 66 #batman 1966 #bookworm

[rin-the-shadow]

At one point I saw a comment on a YouTube video which implied that Bookworm would dislike the internet and audio books. While I could see the character having issues with audio books (likely because the readers wouldn't perform them the way he thought they should be read and/or because it didn't go at the speed he thought they should) I actually think Bookworm would love the internet, largely because it would give him greater access to more books that he might not have been able to get access to otherwise.

I also think he'd probably be the type to print out ebooks and bind them into physical ones, because the feel of the books as he's reading them definitely seems to be a thing for him in his episodes.

#batman 1966 #60s batman #bookworm #60s bookworm #rin does headcanons #and now i'm imagining bookworm and lydia limpet binding books #both for the sake of binding the books but also to read them later

[the-swift-tricker]

batman 1966 was great cause you would have guest villains like louie the lilac or bookworm which were all fun and campy and then false face would show up looking like an extra from the purge and make you question what show you're watching

#batman 1966 #batman 66 #batman #dc comics #swift-tricker's posts

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

PANEL DISCUSSION

From time to time Your Humble Narrator likes to sort through the stacks of old comic books of which he has far too many. A recent such rummage led me to reflect, on the last day of Black History Month, that I learned a fair amount of what little I know about black history not at school but from comics.

Although Adalifu Nama's Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes (2011) is a lively and accessible study, its focus is deliberately narrow. As far as I can find, a comprehensive history of the black presence in comic books, both as characters and as artists, writers and publishers, is yet to be written. Reading up to review Marvel's Black Panther a few years ago, I came across a reprint of All-Negro Comics from 1947...

...which contained probably the earliest black superhero, Lion Man; even though the title was run out of business after only one issue, it left me wondering if it could have influenced the creation of T'Challa years later over at Marvel.

But in my collection, amongst the superhero, scary and funny titles, I found a number of civic-minded, non-fiction comics devoted to black history, most notably...

...the 169th issue of Classics Illustrated, Negro Americans: The Early Years, from 1969. Classics Illustrated were highly abridged and expurgated adaptations of literary classics intended to interest kids in reading, and I was their success story: the dorky kid who actually became a bookworm at least partly because of the hours I spent poring over these mostly lame version of Wells and Verne and Hugo and Melville, and even Homer and Shakespeare.

Negro Americans was different than the other Classics Illustrated titles, however, in that it wasn't based on a classic book; no author is credited. On the table of contents page it says "...we try to give accurate accounts of some of those black men and women who gave their talents and lives to their country during its formative years. Space allows us to show only a few of these black heroes...The efforts and triumphs of these black men and women live as their legacy to American heritage."

I bought this comic off the stands sometime in the early '70s, and learned from it--not from school--that Crispus Attucks was arguably the first man to die in the American revolution when he fell in the Boston Massacre...

...or about the advances in heart surgery by Daniel Hale Williams...

...among many other extraordinary accounts.

I also have the Classics Illustrated version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, from 1944...

...with better-than-average art for the series.

A while back I acquired (for a dollar an issue!) a full run of the Golden Legacy comics, a series of 16 books on black history published from 1966 to 1976. Most of them concern African-American history--Crispus Attucks, Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Banneker, Martin Luther King, Jr., arctic explorer Matthew Henson, Amistad mutineer Joseph Cinqué, and two volumes on Frederick Douglass, among others. But there are also issues on ancient African civilizations, on Toussaint L'Ouverture and the founding of Haiti, and on the ancestry of Dumas and Pushkin. Again, they didn't teach most of this stuff at my school.

The art was pretty cool, too.

My stacks yielded a couple of '70s-era comics featuring Quincy, the everykid from Ted Shearer's newspaper strip...

They were published by King Comics, the periodical arm of King Features Syndicate. Along with Quincy's adventures with his white pal Nickels and others, the books featured educational content, teaching readers proper grammar, etc...

Moving away from educational comics, I found several issues of Midnight Tales, a creepy Charlton Comic that ran from 1972 to 1976. It's noteworthy not because of any specifically black content, but because the artist, the marvelous Wayne Howard (1949-2007) was probably the first African-American comic book artist to get a "Created by" credit on his title. Indeed, he was one of the first artists of any race to do so; comic books were usually uncredited in earlier decades.

In Midnight Tales Howard, in collaboration with writer Nicola Cuti, dreamed up Dr. Cyrus Coffin, aka "The Midnight Philosopher," who collected strange yarns with his beautiful raven-haired neice Arachne. I still think it would make a wonderful TV series on, say, the CW Network.

I love the macabre wit in Howard's artwork...

Or my favorite of his covers, from the first issue...

How much had Dr. Frankenstein been drinking when he made that mistake?

Finally, I came across a striking 1984 issue of All-Star Squadron,  DC's superhero team-up title set in the 1940s. This particular story...

...is set against the real-life backdrop of the white rioting against the residents of the Sojourner Truth housing project in Detroit in 1942. More strikingly, it features black superhero Will Everett, aka Amazing Man, facing off against a hooded supervillain wonderfully called "Real American," who has the hypnotic power not only to turn the white citizens into mindless, violent racist rioters, but to have the same effect on some of Amazing Man's superhero allies.

Hard to imagine that some Republicans in congress wouldn't love to get their hands on that technology...

#dc comics #charlton comics #wayne howard #marvel comics #black history month #classics illustrated

[obsessedwiththebatman]

57 years ago today...

"Batman" premiered on ABC TV, January 12th, 1966. The series quickly became a cultural phenomenon. Children were able to watch it as a straight adventure series, while adults could appreciate it's camp sensibilities and dead-pan humor. The series had a colorful pop art style that was unlike anything else on TV. The series also had a huge impact on sales of Batman comics, as well comic books in general, and helped launch Batman into his current status as the most popular comic book character of all time.

The series was originally intended to be an hour long, but ABC only had two half-hour time slots available, so the episodes were split in two. Which the first part of the Episode would leave our Dynamic Duo in a cliff hanger for the BATFAN’s to stay tuned into the the second part of the story and wonder how their Heroes will escape from the rogues gallery of villains

Batman ran three seasons 120 Episodes and the

series spun-off a motion picture in 1966 featuring most of the TV cast.

Principal Cast

Adam West as Batman/Bruce Wayne

Burt Ward as Robin/Dick Grayson

Alan Napier as Alfred

Neil Hamilton as Commissioner Gordon

Stafford Repp as Chief O'Hara

Madge Blake as Aunt Harriet Cooper

Yvonne Craig as Batgirl/Barbara Gordon (Season 3 only)

And what would Batman be with out his Villains who portrayed by the Big Names of Stage and Small screen

Main Recurring Comic Book Villains

The Joker (Cesar Romero)

The Penguin (Burgess Meredith)

The Riddler (Frank Gorshin and John Astin)

Catwoman (Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether (motion picture), and Eartha Kitt)

Other villains were used from DC Comics

The Mad Hatter (David Wayne)

False Face (Malachi Throne)

Mr. Freeze (George Sanders, Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach)

The Puzzler (Maurice Evans)

The Clock King (Walter Slezak)

The Archer (Art Cartney)

Some Villains that were created for the show which also some came Fan Favourites To BATFAN’s

King Tut (Victor Buono)

Egghead (Vincent Price)

Shame (Cliff Robertson)

Marsha, Queen of Diamonds (Carolyn Jones)

Olga, Queen of Cossacks (Anne Baxter)

Lord Ffogg (Rudy Vallee)

Lady Penelope Peasoup (Glynis Johns)

Freddy the Fence (Jacques Bergerac)

Other show Villains

The Bookworm (Roddy McDowall)

Ma Parker (Shelley Winters)

The Minstrel (Van Johnson)

Black Widow (Tallulah Bankhead)

Zelda The Great (Anne Baxter)

Chandell and Harry (Liberace)

The Sandman (Michael Rennie)

Siren (Joan Collins)

Louie the Lilac (Milton Berle)

Lola Lasagne (Ethel Merman)

Colonel Gumm (Roger C. Carmel)

Nora Clavicle (Barbara Rush)

Dr. Cassandra Spellcraft (Ida Lupino)

Minerva (Zsa Zsa Gabor)

Calamity Jan (Dina Merrill)

Cabala (Howard Duff)

The other things which made this Live Action TV Series Great was the Bat gadgets such as the Ironic Batmobile which was designed and built George Barris using 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car he had purchased from Ford for $1.00. Ford had used it for many years to promote "the car of tomorrow"

And Mr Barris had only three weeks and $15,000 (US) to turn it into the Batmobile, which included adding a Ford Galaxy chassis

Even to when people see the Original TV Batmobile it turns heads it’s the most Famous car from TV and film History

This past last year we lost the legend Batman himself Mr Adam West 9th June, 2017 at the age of 88

I was so grateful to had meet Mr West while attending LA Comic Con 2016 I was able to have a few laughs with the Man himself who was a kind and friendly gentleman it only lasted a short time meet and greet but I will never forget it as I Met My BATMAN

Mr West will live on as he made TV History and worldwide fans young and old and he will always be in our heart

[ghosts-of-gotham]

Professor William McElroy AKA King Tut

Based on 'King Tut' from Batman 1966

William Mcelroy grew up being bullied for his size. He was a larger child, and he was picked on a lot by his classmates. He often retreated into the library and tried to forget the world around him. His favourite books were of Egypt and the ancient pharoahs like his dad would tell him about. His father worked at a museum.

But then a student riot happened, and he suffered a serious head injury. It left a scar of the back on his head and a very rare medical condition to arise. Whenever he got struck on the head, William would become a new and repressed personality. He would become to believe himself to be a reincarnated King Tut. And saw Gotham as his home to reclaim.

He set out and quickly became a criminal mastermind in Gotham during its 'New Age' of costumed crime. He had his followers and often was seen with a new 'queen' every so often. He was not good at picking good women. They always seemed to be from Lower Gotham or Jersey.

To this day, he still switched between William McElroy and King Tut. William trying to live a somewhat normal life and King Tut trying to reclaim Gotham for his own.

William's favourite was Tutankhamun. Or known more as 'King Tut'. He loved him so much he wished he could be him. He even pretended to be him for confidence.

He became a bookworm and a lover of ancient Egypt and history. So much so he became a professor of Eygtology at Gotham University.

He was a large man but had a kind heart. He was shy and soft spoken. Too good for this world. Everyone loved him and thought he was sweet.

#king tut #prof. william mcelroy #profile

[ryttu3k]

20, 27, 36

[bookworm asks]

20. Where and how do you find new books to read?

Book blogs, mostly! I have a little Sunday book blog routine, checking Book Riot, Reactor (formerly Tor), and Literary Hub, and I get a lot of recs from those, especially Reactor since I'm predominantly into SFF. Tumblr as well, although to a slightly lesser extent (literally just added something to my TBR based on a recommendation on my dash), and I follow a couple of booktubers who I've got recs from as well. I also sometimes go through rec lists and the like - got a ton of recs from doing the Trans Rights Readathon. I added 17 to my TBR just from that!

27. What was the first book you remember reading as a kid?

Oh goodness I honestly have no idea. I was hyperlexic as hell and was actually reading before three, so before I can remember, and I was read to as well. I just… always was surrounded by books. Hmm, if we're talking books I do have distinct memories of… maybe my Mum's copy of The Little Mermaid? It's a 1966 Golden Press holographic board book she got as a birthday present as a kid.

36. Your absolute most favorite character(s) from any book you've ever read.

I literally sat here for about fifteen minutes thinking about this one (I mean, I was doing other stuff as well, but. Contemplating, haha). I thiiiink... I'll have to go with one Samwise Gamgee, small in stature but immense in bravery and care <3

#books #memes