Television Crossover Universe

  Rutland Vermont has an annual Halloween Parade , the longest running annual Halloween Parade in America .  It started in 1960.  It was founded by Tom Fagen .  While in the past it had a very strong superhero theme , this year's parade seemed to focus more on Ghostbusters and The Nightmare Before Christmas .   The parade was very well known and popular among comic creators in the 1970s and 1980s who would travel from New York City to attend the parade.  They would feature the parade in their stories, for both Marvel and DC, and usually show people in costumes from their competitors in those stories, as well as putting themselves and their friends in the stories.  Tom Fagen would often appear in the stories as well.  Tom usually dressed as Batman in the parades, but in Marvel Comics he would be drawn dressed at Nighthawk .   The first appearance of the parade was in Avengers # 83 , December 1970. In 1972, it appeared in a three p...

 Every weekend I block out two hours for writing, and I should be using that time editing my book today, but I'm really not enjoying writing that book, and thinking of abandoning it altogether, so instead I'm doing another blog post to procrastinate from that other project. Some say we have super hero fatigue.  Less super hero movies are being made, after years of flooding the market.  James Gunn says that it's not fatigue for super-hero movies.  We just need good stories.   Super hero movies have been with us since the days of the serials in the 1940s.  Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Captain America all got serials, along with non-super comic book characters like Blackhawk, Hop Harrigan, and Dick Tracy.   For decades, it seemed as though the super-hero movies were focused on Superman and Batman.   That changed in 2000 with the release of X-Men.  Many will say that Blade in 1998 was the start, and that may be true, but I ...

  Everything happens somewhere... but somethings happen in more than one universe apparently.   Spoilers ahead, especially if you haven't seen the Flash movie yet.   I love identifying which universe everything happens in, but sometimes that's not such an easy task if I try to place everything in one particular spot.  I came across this with Scooby-Doo, thus I wrote the Scooby-Doo Multiverse with multiple timelines.  The one consistency of those timelines was the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, which seemed to take place in nearly every timeline, which diverged after that series.  (Most of those timelines but not all also included the New Scooby-Doo Movies).  So Batman (1989) is a similar situation it appears. Let's start at the beginning.   In 1989, Tim Burton rebooted the Batman franchise with a smash hit film starring Michael Keaton.  This movie was followed by a sequel, Batman Returns.  And then Joel Schumacher to...

So... Earth-66 is gone.  Earth-66 is now canonically the world of Batman'66.   According to Thom Holbrook, that connects to the following shows. Addams Family Beverly Hillbillies Green Acres Green Hornet Hogan's Heroes Lone Ranger Mister Ed New Addams Family Petticoat Junction But from the Batman'66 comic, we also know that Batman'66 is also in the same universe as Adventures of Superman , Shazam, Man from UNCLE , and Wonder Woman'77 .  Also Archie , but that's complicated. Adventures of Superman connects to I Love Lucy, which connects to the following: Group 2 AFTERMASH Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Carter The Andy Griffith Show Ally Ally McBeal Arrested Development The Beat Becker Beverly Hills Buntz Bob The Bob Newhart Show Boston Legal Boston Public Buddies Can't Hurry Love Caroline In The City Cheers Chicago Hope Civil Wars Coach Conviction Cop Rock COPS Cosby The Danny Thomas Show Daredevil Deadline The Defenders The Dick Van Dyke Sho...