Zero/Freeze was the only "Bush League" Character to make it to the TV Screen. William Dozier, getting to really ham it up!) says the usual business about the cliff-hanger predicament, finishing with the quote of "Tomorrow, Same Bat-Time, Same Bat Channel! AND remember gang, the Worst is yet to come! (Please see our review of "BATMAN" Rats Like Cheese! (Season 1, Episode #8.) NOTE: * Please don't think that Mr. So, as the familiar narrator, Desmond Doomsday (really Mr. Freeze manages to get Batman & Robin trapped and is able to freeze the twosome both instantly and thoroughly. AFTER some cat and mouse type of encounters, Mr. BATMAN and Robin's arrival at Police Headquarters starts the story off in the manner that had become the standard what with Batman relating the origin of the bad guy and how the accident in his laboratory is blamed on him by Mr. They immediately summoned the Dynamic Duo via the red emergency Bat Phone. The sudden occurrence of "icy pavement in July" as well as the melting of an indoor ice rink at the same time spelled trouble to Commissioner Gordon (Neil Hamilton), Chief O'Hara (Stafford Repp) and the brain trust at the Gotham City P.D. Zero) is a bonaified Comic Book villain albeit a bush leaguer at that!* OUR STORY. He hadn't made a second comic book appearance until over 2 years into the Batmania Craze on the Telly. Freeze's Chilling Death Trap." The name had been changed for some reason or other for the TV series. The character did not return until Detective Comics #373, March 1968 in the cover story, "Mr. Zero" in February 1959 issue of Batman Comics #121 being the main story of three and was cover featured. You must understand that the character was born as the new villain in "The Ice Crimes of Mr. Freeze may seem to be problematical for his origin is somewhat that of a hybrid pedigree. CONVERSELY, baddies such as the Joker, Penguin, Catwoman and even the Mad Hatter were all developed from the graphic printed page of the Batman stories being either Detective Comics (Monthly), the Batman Comic Book (6 then later 8 times yearly) or World's Finest Comics (at first a quarterly publication, then a bi-monthly-6 times yearly). Even these and their ilk are essentially cut from the same cloth as the true Comic Book Villains theirs is an origin of the Television Script Writer. These would include such characters as names as Book Worm, King Tut Marcia: Queen of Diamonds, the Archer and the Minstrel. FIRST, there are those villains who were strictly a product of the TV Series. I couldn't recommend it enough.WHEN one is comparing the development and use of the "Special Guest Star" gimmick that Producer William Dozier and company used in the BATMAN Series (Greenway/20th Century-Fox, ABC TV, 1966-68) we must divide the villains into two types. I love shows, I hate shows, but rarely do I feel indebted in some way to art, but I feel a genuine debt of gratitude to "Wayne". It wasn't explicitly a social critique, but that's what made the message even more effective. This show not only stirred all that stuff back up, but really made me look at it all through fresh eyes somehow, and helped answer some long nagging questions about identity, social mobility, and sometimes having so many strikes against you right from birth that if you aren't extremely lucky and smart, you aren't going anywhere. I'm still haunted often by feelings that I'm a fraud, that I'm not good enough, etc., even after a successful career full of achievement and leadership positions on more boards and committees than I can remember, yet I've known in some folks' minds I'll never be good enough, just trash from the wrong side of the tracks regardless of what I accomplish and the change for good I make on this planet. But I'm still haunted, like when I get upset my carefully constructed accent falls apart and I sound like the kid from the hood I am. I grew up decidedly on the wrong side of the tracks, but I was gifted and managed to rise above my financial beginnings to something much better (no electricity cut off in the middle of the summer, no skipped meals because we had no food, etc.). This show says a whole lot about class and privilege in a liberal democracy, and says it with all cylinders firing.
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