Video: MEGO FIST-FIGHTING BATMAN, ROBIN, RIDDLER, & THE JOKER DOLLS Vintage TV Commercial

HOLY MOLEY! It's the Fist-Fighting Batman & Robin Action Figures...by Mego! And who's this? The Joker & Riddler too? Here's an extremely RARE Vintage Toy TV Commercial from our friends at the Mego Museum. It shows the Ultra-RARE set of 4 "Fist-Fighting Mego Action Figure Dolls". The audio quality isn't that good it still gives you a great idea what the event was like. When kids saw this TV spot in the 1970's they must have flipped-out!

BATMAN DESKTOP BACKGROUND WALLPAPERS With Kevin Nowlan Comic Book Art

All good citizens know that the Bat-Blog features a few free Batman-related Desktop Wallpapers every Wednesday, it's called "Wacky Wallpaper Wednesday", ha ha! This morning I was kind of surprised to find these in my e-mail box. They were made by good friend named Andrew who likes to goof around with graphics. I say that because this image was originally posted on this blog as a simple black & white pencil sketch of original Batman comic book art done by Kevin Nowlan. He took the drawing &, using his awesome super-powers, he transformed the image into the 2 beautiful backgrounds you see here! The coloring jobs here are extremely well done. One is sort of simple with a minimal single-color background & the other one has a photo-realistic approach with a picture of a city skyline. They're both so good I can't decide which one I like better, ha ha! Thank you Andrew for making these & sending them in. I know everybody will really like them.

BATMAN PAPER CRAFT TOY By Paperrollies

A new trend in the arts and crafts movement that is extremely fun & clever is the invention of "Paper Craft Toys". These are usually PDF files you can download on your computer, print out, then cut & shape into "action figures or dolls". Shown here is a new "BATMAN PAPER TOY" you can make. I like how this one has an extreme 3D quality ( usually they are very "cube shaped" ) & the removable cowl is kinda neat too. Thank you Brian for sending this info, I appreciate that a lot. You can find this Paper Toy to download at the Paperrollies website, here's a link:

BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES Music CD Soundtrack Coming From La-La Land Records

It's official, La-La Land Records will be releasing the original soundtrack to the Warner Bros TV Show Batman: The Animated Series! This special CD set will feature music by Shirley Walker, Lolita Ritmanis, and Michael McCuistion. It will also have the now-classic “Batman Theme” by Danny Elfman! The release date is December 16th, 2008, with pre-orders starting on December 2nd, 2008. This is a limited edition collector's set ( they're only pressing 3000 copies ) and will be available only at the La-La Land Records website and a few other sites ( I'm not sure if it will be on Amazon though ). This special set will also have a 20-page booklet. So be sure to visit the site & order before they are all gone! Here's a link button:

New BATMAN Note Cards Set ( Comic Book Style Art )

Checks Unlimited, the company who makes some really cool BATMAN CHECKS, have just now released a set of Batman Note Cards that you could use this holiday season instead of greeting cards. The Set of 20 folded note cards includes 4 designs and white envelopes. Cards are blank inside and measure 5.5" x 4.25". Coordinating return address labels are available too. Here's a link to check them out ( excuse the pun, ha ha ).

Batman-Themed Christmas Holiday Gingerbread Cookies Art

"Striking gingerbread fear into the hearts of holiday evil-doers!!!" The other day I got an e-mail from a Bat-Blog Reader named Chris who wrote, "I hate Christmas stuff, my wife loves Christmas stuff. Knowing I'm a huge Batman fan she tried to keep me interested this year by suggesting that our family gingerbread decorations be Batman themed. It worked!" Wow, it did work! Chris sent me a link to his newly created website where he & his wife share their gingerbread cookie creations that are all Batman-themed. There are a ton of different characters & it was actually kinda hard to pick a few examples ( like the ones shown here ) but they are ALL really amazing! I like that they did a lot of obscure characters & not just the main-stream ones. But, they did those too, ha ha! There's no way for me to show all the ones they did so you will have to visit their page to see them all. Chris, thanks for sending the link, & tell your wife she's a very talented smart woman!

The Fourth Winner of a Signed-Copy of Chip Kidd's New Book BAT-MANGA, THE SECRET HISTORY OF BATMAN IN JAPAN!

We announced awhile back about our latest contest where we are giving away a FREE Autographed Signed-Copy of Chip Kidd's brand-new book titled BAT-MANGA, THE SECRET HISTORY OF BATMAN IN JAPAN. The responses have been pretty amazing & since we have more than one copy we are still accepting entries as we speak ( For information on how to enter just click on the BAT-MANGA CONTEST GRAPHIC at the top of this blog, just under the header ). Well, this morning I picked another name out of the hat so here we go! The WINNER of the FOURTH Signed Copy of the BAT-MANGA Book is... Jennie E. of Fairbanks, AK.! Thanks Jennie, please be sure to send us an e-mail to confirm your complete mailing address & then soon after we will be mailing you this book. I hope that postage for Alaska is not gonna be outrageous because I am kinda poor right now, ha ha! Now, for everybody else who entered there is one more book to give away so you at least have one more chance so stay tuned to the Bat-Blog because you just might be our next lucky winner!