Yossarian wrote:
...the gimmicks that worked with Superman just were not as effective with Batman.

For that reason, I was ready for the "New Look" to come along by mid-1964.  I know a lot of you do not agree.


sterling wrote:
Hey, I'm curious what the reaction was to the "new look" of the Batman when some of you original buyers of the comics saw him for the first time.

...I've always preferred the original bat on the chest without the yellow oval around it. I thought the original looked better and the later had to much of a cheese look for my tastes.

I absolutely love Sheldon Moldoff's work in comics and on Batman but looking back he seemed better suited to the 40's & 50's art styles where as Carmine worked well for the 60's style of comics.

What did you guys think back in 64'? 



Seattleguy wrote:
I thought the new look Batman was a big improvement over the all the sci-fi crap and the stiff artwork that had been the norm for several years prior.



I was just turning twelve when the New Look Batman hit the stands. I initially didn't know what to think of it but I soon decided I didn't like this new look.

First of all, I thought the yellow oval around his bat logo wasn't just unnecessary, but was incongruous too. Batman's costume had always been blue and grey. What was the oval intended to match? His utility belt?

Secondly, Carmine Infantino wasn't the right artist for Batman just as Lee Elias wasn't the right artist to take on the Adam Strange feature after Carmine Infantino. Batman should look edgy and menacing, while Infantino's Batman looked rather wimpy to me. I think Irv Novick or Dick Dillin who did such a good job on Batman in the seventies would have been better choices for the New Look Batman.

Finally, I liked the Batman mythos that Jack Schiff had built up over the years, i.e. the Batcave, Batplane, Bat-Mite, Batwoman, Bat-Girl, Bat-Hound, Vicki Vale, the various colourful villains, etc.  Julius Schwartz dispensed of all these with the exception of some of the villains.


Seattleguy wrote:
Then the Batman TV show and all that camp garbage really set the character back again.


whoswhoz wrote:
The quality of the writing went steadily down hill also- until by the time of the Batman tv show, it, like most other DC's of the day, had become unreadable.
   


And then within two years the Batman titles had been camped down to ape the execrable character on the TV show! It's not their fault you say? Well it happened on their watch! Why should I not blame Julius Schwartz and Carmine Infantino for their portrayal of Batman as a buffoon?

Worse yet, Julius Schwartz also cavalierly dumbed down other titles in which Batman played a role to more closely mimic the flavour of the TV show:


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