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Adam West
Anyone who has ever seen the cult classic Batman television show, or the Batman & Robin 1966 film, is doomed to never being able to forget the first real Batman, Adam West.
True postmodernists would argue that this Bat-avatar was the finest. Going irredeemably camp and wildly over the top, this brightly lit series took comic chaos to a whole different level. Tongue-in-cheek wit, and enough in-jokes to make Tarantino blush were just a few things that made these early efforts so special.
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The colours are vivid, the villains are ludicrous, and there's an obligatory scene in every episode which shows the caped crusader and the 'boy blunder' (as The Joker would insist on calling him) scale the side of a building, with celebrities popping out the window and making Tweety-bird (I-tot-I-saw-a-Batman) smalltalk.
Adam himself performed perfectly. A warm, affable, sitcom-friendly Bruce Wayne, and a constantly concentrating Batman, equipped with canary yellow Utility Belt and blinking red telephone! Oh joy!
And then there was the announcement promising further harmlessly sinister machinations: 'Will the caped crusader be chopped liver? Find out tomorrow - same bat time, same bat channel.' Ta-da-da-da-da-Batman.
Not to forget the immortal coloured balloons during the fights -- 'pow', 'biff', 'thwunk' have never been the same since.
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