Batman's ray gun - from Batman serial (1943)

[MDthornton83]

So this is the earliest Batman film? Wow. I knew there were Batman comics back then. But I didn't even know about this until recently.

[zazelby]

@MDthornton83 Batman's first comic appearance was in 1939, so he'd been around for about four years at this point.

[MDthornton83]

@zazelby Good point.

[CantBelikeit]

Finally a Batman that doesn't make me feel intimidated with his abs and muscles on muscles.

[MasterMacLeod]

1:21 : "Are you alright Bruce?" and Batman DID NOT punch him in the face!?

[Alexx1083]

The only thing that could make this better is if Batman was also wearing a fedora over the cowl.

[mocrg]

That's a big gun. Where does he keep it?

[ObiTrev]

1:20 Ladies and gentlemen the Jew Boy Wonder!

[Wargoat6]

I find the music for the title card pretty scary.

[Diego1999ist]

great scene

[robertwmartens]

Believe it or not, that was the BATMOBILE the caped crusaders appear in!

[Diego1999ist]

@robertwmartens REALLY?? :O

[Skeletonwitharaygun]

Robin:Are you alright Bruce?

Batman:GODDAMMIT ROBIN! CODE NAMES!

*Slap*

[flapdoodle64]

This is still better than Batman Begins or Dark Knight.

[pogoman379]

@flapdoodle64 take off the nostalgia glasses

[80KungFu]

I want to see this film can anyone up load it for me? Com on and upload this classic now!

[ysbaddaden2003]

But it saved DC comics Superman and Batman when the backlash against comic books started after Frederick Wertham's screed The Seduction of Innocents.

One of DC's Publishers Henry Donnenfield already had a run in with censors before the advent ofcomic books with his series of Spicy titled pulps; Spicy Mystery, Spicy Horror, Spicy Westerns and Spicy adventures etc.

[RushInNinja]

I like how slow and deliberate Batman did everything. And the nonchalant murder of the henchmen, fantastic. Batman rocks no matter what era he's in... Except the

60's, when he decided to start doing the "Bat-tusi". Actually that never existed, what am I thinkin'.

[djkrueger6]

LMao why didnt batman save them?.. This is still pretty awesome though

[MasterMacLeod]

He won't kill them, but he doesn't have to save them either!

[pibitopoxi]

@MasterMacLeod

Hahaha that´s right !

[hilarioph]

The bean weapon is so cool

[ffzappe]

This is funny in light of what happened with Darkseid.

[patshirisji]

2 mistakes:

1) Robin would never call him Bruce with his Batman suit.

2) Stupid thing: He mades a big hole in the car's top but finally gets in the car using the door. LOL.

Well I think this was the coolest in those good times.

[Gasboys101]

2 mistakes that you made:

1) On number 2 you said "mades" instead of makes.

2) Batman used the door because he needed to get to the damn front seat

[patshirisji]

Easy turboman, are you the son of the writer or what? Just a comment, and about mades, well you are not perfect either, are you?

[patshirisji]

Another mistake, if you see 1:08 you notice the toy car used to the crash have not the hole on the top that Batman MADE as it should. I love Batman but even the most expensive and planified movies have mistakes.

[Gasboys101]

oh ya another thing. he called him bruce

because nobody was around him

[mabakiel666]

Batman was always better off, more mysterious, without Robin.

[SauskeX4]

@mabakiel666 if it wasnt for robin batman would nvr be who he is today

[EyEnOtgAy]

@mabakiel666 god will they ever make robin not so gay lol

[SuperWolsey]

@mabakiel666 only in the Burton and Nolan films

[SLIMIMPHAL]

is this the Jap Dr Daka with his radium gun?

[diddymuck]

not his gun; belonged to a scientist who loaned it. The bad guy had one too, which is reason they needed radium.

[MrFrontrowkid]

@diddymuck FYI the radium gun was what serial scriptwriters called "the weenie" It was the object or an object that both the good guys and the bad guys wanted. Sometimes it was a lost treasure map that would take all 15 chapters to find. In this case, the radium gun was only used for a few chapters. As far as where do you keep a radium gun that big, you stick in your utility belt where you keep the rest of your cime fighting junk.

[speedsurfer123]

That scene was so PULP.XD

[nayusin]

Batman kills in this version?

[Dmasterman]

earliest batman comics, Batman did kill. Which this was based off.

[joethecrab]

Yeah man!!! Early on in the orig comics, Batman carried a real honest to goodness gun and used it!!!

[hcvang]

before the age of fucking political correctness

[speedsurfer123]

I don't think political correctness had anything to do with it...Just some Nag-Ass, Stupid Parents

[misfitsfiend69]

this is cool shit

[DNchap1417]

the original the started it all! Batman's debut to the big screen and mainstream popularity! You should download all the videos of this serial in chronological order!