Life Magazine: Mad New World

The issue of Life Magazine was released on December 10th, 1971. The cover had Adam West, fully in his Batman Costume from the Batman show. The Batman show started back in 1966 and ran for two years until it ended in 1968. Batman is shown to be dropping out of the sky answering the calls of his Batsignals. They did this to go along with the phrase “What’s up at the sky?”. A phrase most commonly associated with Superman. They wanted to show the coming of a new hero since the show had picked up in popularity.