Quick wiki on the show: • Batman is a 15-chapter serial, released in 1943 by Columbia Pictures. It is based on the DC Comics character Batman, introduced May 1939 in Detective Comics issue 27. The ...

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that the studio will release The Batman: The 1943 Serial Collection DVD on October 18 at a price of $29.95. The series was shown in theaters that year ...

Almost twenty years before Adam West made Batman a camp icon, Lewis Wilson starred as the dark knight in a series of movie serials. Not particularly high-budget or popular as other serials of the day, ...

The 1943 serial of Batman may not be as well-known as the more recent versions of the DC superhero but it's still significant since it was the first live-action adaptation of the cowled crimefighter.