Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is my Comic Book Retroview look back at a comic book published in 1966, Batman # 180.
As its intro says, this piece was originally written as a (rejected) spec submission to Comics Buyer's Guide in the '80s. I'm not sure exactly when I actually wrote and submitted it--that was an awful lot of '80s fried eggs ago--but I'm pretty sure it was after I'd already sold a retrospective of the '60s Batman TV series to CBG editors Don and Maggie Thompson for use in a magazine called Comics Collector in 1985. Both CBG and Comics Collector were published by Krause Publications in Iola, Wisconsin; Krause also published the record collectors' tabloid Goldmine, and I betcha this celebration of Batman # 180 was written after I began freelancing for Goldmine in 1986. The Goldmine affiliation lasted twenty years, and is a large part of whatever notoriety I managed to establish as a rockin' pop pundit. That story is told in some detail in The Road To Goldmine, which is likely my favorite of all the things I've written for this blog.
Before writin' about records for Goldmine, and even before chronicling Batman's on-screen BIFFs, BAMs, and POWs for Comic Collector, my first freelance writing sales were to a magazine called Amazing Heroes, starting in 1984. A previous post talked about my short history with Amazing Heroes, and I've reprised a couple of my AH pieces here: a history of DC's '60s espionage series The Secret Six and an A-Z romp through some obscure DC characters, "Who's...WHO?!"
But enough about me. Let's talk about Batman! A Comic Book Retroview celebration of Batman # 180 gives us the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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