Farewell, Old Chum

For many genre fans, June 9th, 2017 will go down as a day we thought would never come: the day that a true hero of ours passed away. At the age of 88, the iconic and one of a kind ADAM WEST died after a short battle with leukemia.

- Andrew Pollard

Where so many of us are concerned, we grew up with Adam West adorning our TV screens on a regular basis as the Caped Crusader in the 1960s Batman show. From those around at the time to those of us who were treated to this delight in subsequent decades, to those in more recent times who have purposely gone back to check out the camp and cheesy take on the usually dour Dark Knight, West has never, ever been anything less than constantly engaging and a magnetic, charismatic presence in whatever he did.

While his time in the cape and cowl will indeed be what most remember him for, it also led to many revering West as a genuine hero of theirs. After all, to many of us, Adam West was the Batman, and this was the first time that we’d seen arguably the biggest character in comic books brought to live-action life. Sure, there had been those before him - Lewis G. Wilson and Robert Lowrey - but it was West who took the role and truly made it his own in a way that not only iconised Bats but also made an icon of the man behind the dual personalities of Bruce Wayne and his superhero alias. But away from the looming mantle of the dubbed ‘Bright Knight’, there was so much more to Adam West both as an actor and as a man.

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