"The Batman" aka "Batman" (1943) is a racially insensitive, low budget mess of a film that every Batman fan must see. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3yZXDFy 🎞: Trailer for Columbia Picture’s 1943 15 chapter serial film “The Batman” aka “Batman” starring Lewis Wilson and Douglas Croft as Batman and Robin, respectively. “The Batman” (1943) was the first Batman movie on the big screen. | History of The Batman

Debut of the Day: The Batmobile first appeared outside of DC comic books 80 years ago in Lambert Hillyer’s 15 chapter black and white serial film “Batman” released by Columbia Pictures in 1943. After “the Bat-Man”’s 1939 debut in ‘Detective Comics’, the character’s popularity continued to rise in National Allied Publications (today’s DC), receiving his own self titled book a year later in April 1940. As the adventures of Batman and his young sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder (Dick Grayson) evolved t