In “Follow the Path,” I spotlight changes made to comic book characters that are based on outside media, as well as characters who entirely came from outside media. Today, we look at how the 1960s Batman TV series gave the world Mister Freeze.It’s interesting, when I started doing Follow the Path many moons ago, one of the first examples that I could think of was how The Batman: Animated Series transformed Mister Freeze from an obscure Batman villain who was being used solely for cannon fodder to becoming one of the most compelling Batman villains around. Heck, the job that Paul Dini and Bruce Timm did on the villain (who debuted in the series’ third episode ever) was so good that Dini won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for an Animated Program for the episode, and the villain was then used as one of the main villains in Batman and Robin, just five years later!When Mister Freeze debuted in the late 1950s in Batman #121 (by Dave Wood, Sheldon Moldoff and Charles Paris), he went by the name Mister Zero. This was not really much of a period in the Batman comic books in terms of introducing new supervillains, so it was very surprising to see such a major character debut at this point in time (most of the 1950s had concentrated on gangsters and science fiction. Although, it is worth noting that by late 1958, which is when this comic book came out, Batman editor Jack Schiff was trying to push back a bit on the direction of the Batman comics at the time, as he personally believed that Batman’s Rogues were an important part of the series, but he was hamstrung a bit by the direction of the books. He would later complain that when he was fired, the new editor, Julius Schwartz, basically did what Schiff himself wanted to do in the first place!
In “Follow the Path,” I spotlight changes made to comic book characters that are based on outside media, as well as characters who entirely came from outside media. Today, we look at how the 1960s Batman TV series gave the world Mister Freeze.
It’s interesting, when I started doing Follow the Path many moons ago, one of the first examples that I could think of was how The Batman: Animated Series transformed Mister Freeze from an obscure Batman villain who was being used solely for cannon fodder to becoming one of the most compelling Batman villains around. Heck, the job that Paul Dini and Bruce Timm did on the villain (who debuted in the series’ third episode ever) was so good that Dini won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Writing for an Animated Program for the episode, and the villain was then used as one of the main villains in Batman and Robin, just five years later!
When Mister Freeze debuted in the late 1950s in Batman #121 (by Dave Wood, Sheldon Moldoff and Charles Paris), he went by the name Mister Zero. This was not really much of a period in the Batman comic books in terms of introducing new supervillains, so it was very surprising to see such a major character debut at this point in time (most of the 1950s had concentrated on gangsters and science fiction. Although, it is worth noting that by late 1958, which is when this comic book came out, Batman editor Jack Schiff was trying to push back a bit on the direction of the Batman comics at the time, as he personally believed that Batman’s Rogues were an important part of the series, but he was hamstrung a bit by the direction of the books. He would later complain that when he was fired, the new editor, Julius Schwartz, basically did what Schiff himself wanted to do in the first place!
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