I am curious if characters like Luke Cage and T’Challa (Black Panther) were going to be played by white actors would you deem the black community/comic book fans(myself included) as “racist” if we were upset about it? I sincerely doubt it.

I personally hope that the film industry leaves their tokenism racist nonsense out of Black Panther’s movie. If I see one white guy in Wakanda I am going to freak out! Though, luckily for Black Panther, tokenism really only swings in one racist direction.

Portions of the film, including the sequence where Batman desperately tries to dispose of a live bomb, were filmed at waterfront locations in Santa Barbara, California.

Lee Meriwether who was Miss America in 1955 had stated in an interview that Julie Newmar had hurt her back and was unable to take on the Catwoman role.

In his autobiography, Adam West writes of his asking for more money to do the film and that the producers countered with the fact that another actor would be hired.

Batman was Reginald Denny’s final appearance in film and Jack LaLanne has a cameo as a man on a roof top with girls.

A follow up film was at one point considered. The film would have been released between seasons two and three, and would have been used to introduce Barbara Gordon/Bat Girl, and make use of a Batplane. Due to waning interest in the series during season two, which resulted in budget cuts, plans for a second film were scratched.

The film was originally created by National Publishing (now DC Comics) as a “calling card” in their bid to bring Superman to television for the first time. Its theatrical release was originally planned only as a last resort to recoup the production budget if the networks passed on the project.

it’s produced by Barney Sarecky and directed by Lee Sholem with the original screenplay by Richard Fielding (a pseudonym for Robert Maxwell and Whitney Ellsworth), it was shot in 12 days on a studio backlot. Fifty-eight minutes long, Over a year after this film’s release, it served as a trial run for the syndicated TV series Adventures of Superman, for which it became a two-part episode titled “The Unknown People” where it was split up and used to make a “two-parter” to close the first season of Adventures of Superman.

As with many of the early episodes of the Adventures of Superman, the film is adult-themed, with a good deal of conflict and violence, or the threat thereof, and is played with total seriousness by all the actors; Reeves’s Superman, in particular, is all business, displaying none of the humor that the character would develop over time in the TV series.

Originally Kirk Alyn was to be Superman after the two serials but wanted too much money.

According to director Lee Sholem, both Phyllis Coates and George Reeves were knocked cold on the same day in fights involving stuntmen.

The sympathetic view of the strangers in this film, and the unreasoning fear on the part of the citizenry, has been compared by author Gary Grossman to the panicked public reaction to the peaceful alien Klaatu in the film The Day the Earth Stood Still, which was released the same year. Both films have been seen retrospectively as a product of (and a reaction to) the “Red Scare” of post-World War II. Grossman also cites a later film perhaps inspired by this one, called The Mole People.

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She even made appearances at Dragon Con, in which two episodes of The Ms. Marvel Show, were being filmed. The Episodes are: Dragon Con and The Warrior Settles Down.

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