Book of the week: Batman:The Best of the Original Batman

When iconic the Batman television show debuted in 1966 with Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin, DC comics put out so many items to capitalize on the success, like a toy batarang (which I had as a kid), lunchboxes, tee shirts, a toy batmobile (which I also had), and a paperback among them. Today's book of the week is a paperback called " Batman The Best of the Original Batman," by Signet books, published in 1966.

Whenever I'm on-line, I tend to put in words like Batman, Superman, etc to see what books come up... and this 1966 paperback collection came up, so I bought it. It's about 130 pages and contains reprints of about 5 classic Batman comic book stories from the 1950s. The book was in fair shape, but the stories were entertaining. I had actually never read any of them before, so it was a good read.

If you like classic Batman stories, and collect 1960s memorabilia, this is fun book and a good read, although you can get a lot more stories in various trade paperbacks.