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Who was the first actor to play Batman? The answer is Lewis G Wilson, who played the character in a 1943 movie serial only four years after his comics debut.

Though there was a Batman film serial in 1943, Adam West‘s Bruce Wayne was the first to capture the hearts of the viewing ...

On Jan. 12, 1966, “Batman,” starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin and Cesar Romero as the Joker, debuted on ABC.

This article originally appeared on For The Win: Ranking the Batman movies, from Adam West to Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson ...

"Batman and Robin" features three villains, four heroes and about 30 different plot lines. But the events of this movie never ...

We like this movie. For the first years of our lives, Adam West was the Batman — cool, resolute, incorruptible. We didn't even pick up on the camp. It was beautiful to see him shine on the big ...

On Saturday, actor Val Kilmer, who played Batman in a later movie, tweeted: "Ah dear Adam West. He was always so kind when we met. A real gent. Once when I was a kid we found ourselves in front ...

The entire movie feels like it exists solely to set ... Like the television series it's based on, Adam West's Batman is cheesy, silly, and often downright dumb, but there's a comic charm to ...

"RIP Adam West," wrote Will Arnett on Twitter. "You will always be Batman". Arnett voiced the Caped Crusader in 2014's The Lego Movie and this year's The Lego Batman Movie. Kilmer, who played ...

Adam West’s official website has been updated in anticipation for the art exhibit. The event will launch at Gilman Contemporary Art and run from December 20-22. The site says each originals will ...

When Batman Begins first hit theaters in 2005, it was immediately obvious that Christopher Nolan was ready to take the Caped ...