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Batmags, before you continue reading, sit down.

OK, sitting?

Good.

I actually liked that one. (I didn't want you to faint)

Later

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You would think Ideal had the mid 60s tv show market locked up for their card board games. But it turns out that those three, Get Smart, F Troop and Batman were the only three I found, so far. Milton Bradley made most of the card board games for mid 60s TV shows, as far as I can tell.



If I used that Get Smart game, I'd have to repeat the Batman game image to make the match

I might, but I'm trying to avoid repeating images.


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What comes after Super Tuesday?



Wonderful Wednesday, Terrific Thursday and Fabulous Friday! And what a rest of the week we here at Typewriter Chewing gum have in store for youse! We're celebrating 1969 all the rest of this week with our Batman69 line of cards. Lucky youse!



First up, it's our Wonderful Wednesday entry. We're gonna sock it to youse with a straight up Batman69 card honoring the top ranked Nielsen rated show of the 1968-69 TV season and the 1969-79 TV season. That's some two year run. And if you Venn diagram the 1968-69 and 1969 TV seasons, whaddya get? 1969, that's what you get. And isn't that the point of our Batman69 line of Batman Mets cards? Plus, the boys at R&D over at Plasticine Industries told us that The Archer is suddenly hot and that the heads at Plasticine wanna make more money. Isn't that also the point? They were pretty clear about what they were getting at. More Archer means more money. And we take our marching orders from Plasticine, so we squoze in The Archer into our latest offering.



Tune in tomorrow, Terrific Thursday for some more Batman69.



Same bat-time. Same bat-channel.



And that's the truth. Pfffffft!

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It's Terrific Thursday, here at Typewriter Chewing Gum and we're still celebrating 1969 all the rest of the week. Just like we said we would. Today's Batman69 release mashes up with our league leaders subset for another Metsian card. And as an added bonus, today's card goes to four. Four, as in fourth place -- instead of the usual top three finishers in the statistical category. Take a good look at that card and youse can figure out why we went to four. How else d'yas think we could make that card Metsian? That's one more disembodied head than the usual number for youse lucky youses.



Today, we take a look at 1969 defense through the prism of modern sabrmetric stats that didn't exist back in 1969. And whaddya know? Sabrmetrics supports those old observations that Clete Boyer and Hal Lanier were among the finest fielders of their day. At least as far as this leaderboard goes. Lanier was sorta a Rey Ordonez of his time. A brilliant fielder and a dreadful hitter. So dreadful that quite a few baseball historians think that Lanier, singelhandedly prevented the powerhouse 60s Giants from competing with the league's World Series bound elites. Those Giants were just lousy with Hall of Famers. They had more Hall of Famers than most teams had all-stars. But they also had Lanier.











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Nice, but I still remember Boyer most as an MFY, so a double black mark on his record. And, before modern defensive metrics (like range factor) the only thing you really had was fielding pct. and I remember Boyer's career .965 was a mark against which I measured other third basemen.

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Did youse all forgot that today is Fabulous Friday and that we here at Typewriter blah blah blah are celebrating 1969 all this week not including Stormy Monday and Super Tuesday which was just as bad as Stormy Monday and not really so Super for Elizabeth Warren? And did youse all see the all-night long love fest for the persistent Senator from Massachusetts? Liz is as beloved on MSNBC as she is on this here forum. They poured out their hearts for Liz all night long straight through the whole lineup from whoever replaced Chris Matthews all the way to Brian Williams. The evening was so heartfelt, so melancholy, you woulda though they killed JFK all over again.



Anyways, we're closing out the work-week with another Batman69 card. Mashed up with our all-stars for another look at a 1969 all-star. (All-star cards mean Latin American market, no matter whether it's a 2019 all-star or a 1969 all-star -- youse know the drill). Plus we're taking those two mashed up subsets, and mashing them up with a third subset -- as we go Special Guest Villain on our Batman69 all-star card.



And this card comes with its own video. So enjoy the show and look out for more upcoming Batman cards coming soon to a store near youse.



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Hey youse baseball starved fans! Already sick of those quarantines and social distancing? Wouldn't you like your kids to be back in school already so they don't drive you nuts 24/7, hogging the bathrooms and your TV remotes and eating all the potato chips which you can't replace so easily anymore because who the hell wants to go out there? Need a baseball fix in these troubling coronavirus times? Well we here at Typewriter Chew have got just the thing for youse to pass the COVID-19 blahs. It's another Batman card. And a brand new subset. And we love subsets. So let's introduce our newest baby --"Mets of the Batman TV Show Era". The Batman TV show debuted in January of 1966 and aired it's last brand new episode in March of 1968, just before the start of that year's baseball season. So if you were a Met during either the 1966 or 1967 seasons, don't be surprised if one day, youse catch yourselves on a Typeweriter Chew Batman Mets card.



Kapow!



Today's card comes with it's own music video. But first, the card.

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Rachel Maddow reads this thread. She signed off yesterday by telling her viewers to "tune in tomorrow. Same bat-time. Same bat-channel." Where else could she have gotten that line from?


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The 1990s Batman comics had the Contagion story, which led to the epic crossover event No Man's Land story that was Gotham being completely quarantined from the world (Gotham also suffered a devastating earthquake as well).



So now I'm imagining those classic stories with the 1960s series' satirical earnestness! 😳🤣


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Hey Edgy! You out there. I have an assignment for you. Or anybody else that wants to play.



Vic Tayback!



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Vic might've guest appeared on more 60s TV shows than just about anybody.



Except this old guy.



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But Vic definitely kissed more grits than ol' Burt Mustin.



So your assignment, if you choose to accept, or anybody else, is to come up with a super-villain character that Vic would've played on the 60s Batman TV show.



Burt Mustin, too.


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Burt played an old man for a lot of years. He's like the male Ellen Corby.



Oddly enough, I just saw Vic Tayback playing a mob heavy on The Patridge Family last night. Vic was on the The Family two or three times, I'm pretty sure, in different roles. He also co-stars with Richard Benjamin in the alternate universe version of The Odd Couple that broadcasts in my head. He doesn't get the red-ass as quickly as Klugman's Oscar Madison does, but he's a lot more menacing once he does.



On Batman, apart from continuing in the mob vein and making Vic a sidekick for Louie the Lilac, I think he would make a great pro-wrestling-themed villain called "The Blue Blazer" (or perhaps "Slaughterhouse"). He's putting the best and brightest young men from Gotham University into sleeper holds that no doctor can awaken them from. Only he can bring them back to consciousness with his patented psionic claw maneuver, once the ransom is paid by the parents.



The thing is, Batman, being a master of martial arts, sort of knows how to do the psionic claw, but the months of practice that he put into it years ago was abandoned, because he respects patents. And even if he was to violate his conscience and perform one now on one of these slumbering sophomores, any microscopic miscalculation in the pressure used can lead to the patient's demise(!!).



The Blue Blazer's main sidekicks include "Half-Nelson" and "Hammerlock."



Cliffhanger: Somehow, he is able to bait Batman into a wrestling match. No striking with closed fists — maybe his gauntlets are telemetrically rigged so that whenever he punches somebody, Chief O'Hara gets hit. Or maybe Dick Grayson has become one of the sleepers, so Bats has to play by the rules. So there he is, outside of his comfort zone. No punching, no utility belt, no Robin to assist him, and bare-chested. Just as we head to the commercial break, The Blazer gets him in what looks like the devastating sleeper hold. (I just realized that this almost has to be referred to as "The Golden Sombrero.")



CAN BATMAN BREAK OUT BEFORE IT'S NIGHTY NIGHT FOR THE DARK KNIGHT?!



IS THIS THE NADIR FOR THE CAPED CRUSADER?!!



IS "CRUSADER" EVEN A PARTICULARLY CULTURALLY SENSITIVE NICKNAME TO GIVE TO A HERO IN OUR ENLIGHTENED MODERN WORLD?!!!



Vic Tayback, ladies and gentlemen.



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Yeah, he left the globe in 1990. He briefly got some publicity a few years ago when his lawyer son was recruited onto Bill Cosby's defense team.


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So tell me about this "psionic claw". What is it and how does it work? Is it a physical power or a psychic or mental power? It would be unusual if the villain has some special psychic power: most Batman super-villains rely on gadgets and contraptions to sow their mayhem -- like Louie, the Lilac's scented flowers, or the Penguin's smoke emitting umbrellas. I'm trying to think about this and the only villain I could think of with some kind of natural or biological "super-power" is Siren, with her extremely high octave range that can incapacitate others. Maybe Mr. Freeze, who can exist only in extremely cold conditions, but I'm not sure that's a "super-power".


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I think it's more or less palming somebody's face, carefully pushing on pressure points in the temples and the eye sockets, slowly bringing them back to consciousness, or if done incorrectly, making the Golden Sombrero permanent.


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I don't think of The Blue Blazer applying the Golden SombreroTM sleeper hold and the Psionic ClawTM wakeup technique as "super powers," per se. They are more like professional skills put to nefarious use.


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I get it. I dunno that the 60s censors, or the execs, would've approved of "Slaughterhouse". The name's too violent. I know that I went with "Cereal Killer", but still.


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Edgy MD wrote:

I like Ernie Borgnine's evil villain getup.


That's funny you said/wrote that because last night I was googling "Blue Blazer" for ideas or inspiration on how to dress this villain. I was also wondering if "Blue Blazer" is some sort of wrestling term. I don't know much about wrestling. I know and have heard of the stuff that everybody probably knows, like a half-nelson and Hulk Hogan and Gorgeous George. My 4th grade buddy was a big Bruno Sammartino fan. And Gorilla Monsoon, too. Back in the 4th grade. Anyways, it turns out that "Blue Blazer" is the name of an actual modern-day wrestler. Did you know that?


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