Welcome to the 916th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our first legend, learn whether the United States government forced the 1960s Batman TV series to add seat belts to the Batmobile.As I just noted in a recent Comic Book Legends Revealed, there is a long and established history of the United States government getting involved in the world of popular culture, with the hope that popular culture could help serve as propaganda for a good cause. One of the most famous examples in comic book history, of course, was Stan Lee being asked by the Nixon administration to do an anti-drug issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Lee complied, even though the Comics Code Authority at the time said that you couldn’t mention drugs in comics even if the comic was specifically ANTI-drugs. Lee just put the comic book out without Comics Code approval, and eventually they backed down. My recent legend was about the fact that the famous Green Lantern/Green Arrow issue about drugs had ALSO started its life as a government request for an anti-drugs issue from DC, as well.The reason why Garth, and many other people (there was even a Reddit post on “Today I Learned…” about the National Safety Council forcing Batman and Robin to wear seat belts in the Batmobile) believe that the government forced Batman and Robin to wear seat belts in the Batmobile (by the way, as an aside, it is absolutely hilarious how hard people fought to wear seat belts. If modern people are shocked when people fight against being “forced” to do things that are clearly for their own good, you should look no further to the long and hard battle that people had against wearing seat belts back in the day, because it took away their “right” to, you know, go flying through their windshields) is due to this mini public safety message that Adam West and Burt Ward filmed in the episode “The Purr-fect Crime,” in March 1966…
Welcome to the 916th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. This time, in our first legend, learn whether the United States government forced the 1960s Batman TV series to add seat belts to the Batmobile.
As I just noted in a recent Comic Book Legends Revealed, there is a long and established history of the United States government getting involved in the world of popular culture, with the hope that popular culture could help serve as propaganda for a good cause. One of the most famous examples in comic book history, of course, was Stan Lee being asked by the Nixon administration to do an anti-drug issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Lee complied, even though the Comics Code Authority at the time said that you couldn’t mention drugs in comics even if the comic was specifically ANTI-drugs. Lee just put the comic book out without Comics Code approval, and eventually they backed down. My recent legend was about the fact that the famous Green Lantern/Green Arrow issue about drugs had ALSO started its life as a government request for an anti-drugs issue from DC, as well.
The reason why Garth, and many other people (there was even a Reddit post on “Today I Learned…” about the National Safety Council forcing Batman and Robin to wear seat belts in the Batmobile) believe that the government forced Batman and Robin to wear seat belts in the Batmobile (by the way, as an aside, it is absolutely hilarious how hard people fought to wear seat belts. If modern people are shocked when people fight against being “forced” to do things that are clearly for their own good, you should look no further to the long and hard battle that people had against wearing seat belts back in the day, because it took away their “right” to, you know, go flying through their windshields) is due to this mini public safety message that Adam West and Burt Ward filmed in the episode “The Purr-fect Crime,” in March 1966…
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