Batman Times Three

Yesterday's post with 50 women dressed as Wonder Woman illustrated, among other things, how repetition can transform an archetype of creative identity into a visual cliche--and vice versa.  It's a trope Warhol memorably played with a number of times, from his multiples of Marilyn to his Campbell soup cans.  It also provided a number of examples of how the juxtaposition of magic and mundane can generate images that are simultaneously profound and absurd--for instance, there's a picture of costumed woman at home, IIRC in her kitchen, that captures the complexity of the human condition in ways all too often missed in High Art.

Extending this trope, today we have three variants on the theme from the Batman TV show, from different times and places.

First, Parisian psychobilly rockers the Washington Dead Cats offer an avant garde visual interpretation that updates Warhol's Batman painting, photography and film for the Youtube generation:

The version in this video was one of teen me's favorite flea market finds long ago:  the '60s bootleg version by The Who.  Be sure to read the crawl: 

And last but definitely not least, The Jam!