The classic Batman television series, which premiered on January 12, 1966, starring Adam West and Burt Ward as the Dynamic ...

Sixty years ago, "Batman" crashed onto TV screens, unleashing Batmania, a rogue’s gallery of villains, and a pop-culture phenomenon that still resonates.

On TVs everywhere, a white hot beam of light pierces the midnight sky, sending its urgent message into the inky black night over Gotham, striking terror into rotten hearts of evil-doers.

1950s and '60s "Batman" comic books produced some of the most amusingly ridiculous storylines in the Dark Knight's history. At a time when science fiction was all the rage, the comics had transformed ...