Adam West to play Batman....sorta

[palitoy]

Topless Robot - Adam West Puts the Cowl Back On

looks like they're reenacting "Untold Legend of the Batman" here

[The Toyroom]

Yeah and Julie Newmar is playing Martha Wayne too...Kevin Conroy is The Spectre and Mark Hamill is The Phantom Stranger (or vice versa)

[palitoy]

I knew we'd discussed the cast here but not the detail of Thomas wearing a Bat costume.

[Earth 2 Chris]

When I first read of this, I wondered if maybe it wouldn't adapt (in part anyway) Alan Brennert's classci "To Kill a Legend" from Detective #500, where the Phantom Stranger offers Batman a chance to stop his parent's murder on a parallel world.

So maybe it's BOTH this story, and "The First Batman" that are getting put together?

Just a guess.

Chris

[The Toyroom]

"To Kill a Legend" from Detective #500, where the Phantom Stranger offers Batman a chance to stop his parent's murder on a parallel world.

I've often wondered,in the scheme of things pre-Crisis, exactly which parallel earth this should be I may have heard it referred to as Earth-5 at some point, which was never named in and of itself back then as to avoid confusion with Earth-S (what with comic book lettering what it sometimes is).

[Earth 2 Chris]

Wasn't Earth-5 the Earth that the multi-cultural League was from, that first appeared in that Legends of the DCU: Crisis special back in the late 90s?

Heck, it may even make sense. That Batman was a family man, and not obsessed and grim. Robin was his son. Maybe he was the young Bruce from Legend, grown up into Batman! The mind boggles...

Chris

[The Toyroom]

No that was Earth-D that appeared in Legends of the DCU...

[Earth 2 Chris]

No that was Earth-D that appeared in Legends of the DCU...

Ah yes...Earth D for "Diverse"!

Chris

[The Toyroom]

Just looked it up...Earth-5 is indeed the earth featured in "To Kill a Legend"...it was named as such in the Absolute edition of COIE.