The News Team's "Royal Rubble" has a new special article up on the front page of AnimeSuperhero.com:
"During his crime fighting career Batman has encountered a fair share of supernatural threats, including witches, werewolves, various assorted ghouls, and even vampires. With Halloween upon us, I figured it would be nice to do a short rundown of Batman’s run-ins with the latter, (usually) blood-sucking creatures, in cartoons over the years. The list is in chronological order, abd this is not supposed to be a tier list for the episodes and movies mentioned below. Likewise, it is possible I might have missed a couple, but without much further ado, here are some of the most memorable toons where Batman had to go up against vampires.
Vampire Superman & Count Dracula (as a bat).
Superfriends. “Attack of the Vampire” (1978). In this story Dracula awakens and starts turning others into vampires using some magical dust (this was a “Saturday morning cartoon” after all). Another method of turning people into vampires was shooting rays out of his eyes, a trick his newly created vampire minions were likewise able to perform. The Super Friends – including Batman & Robin – investigate and some of them even end up being transformed into vampires themselves. It’s pretty much in line with the rest of these Super Friends episodes, it has it’s certain charm but it is a bit silly, for lack of a better word, but that’s not exactly supposed to be a complaint. It’s a decent way to waste time and offers some neat designs for the Super Friends vampires. Plus, Batman plays a pretty big role here, so it is a fine addition to this list.
A slightly different vampire appears in a later Super Friends short, “Voodoo Vampire” (1980). This animated short mainly focused on Batman & Robin teaming-up with Black Vulcan to stop an African vampiress from turning more people into her slaves. This time, the beams to turn people into vampires are shot from their fangs, which sounds and looks a bit too silly, but it is what it is. There’s really not a lot to comment on the cartoon other than maybe that Batman is turned into a vampire this time, but again, it’s one of Batman’s animated confrontations with a vampire, so it belongs in this list."
Read the full article here.
"Every “Batman Vs Vampires” Battle in Animation"
"During his crime fighting career Batman has encountered a fair share of supernatural threats, including witches, werewolves, various assorted ghouls, and even vampires. With Halloween upon us, I figured it would be nice to do a short rundown of Batman’s run-ins with the latter, (usually) blood-sucking creatures, in cartoons over the years. The list is in chronological order, abd this is not supposed to be a tier list for the episodes and movies mentioned below. Likewise, it is possible I might have missed a couple, but without much further ado, here are some of the most memorable toons where Batman had to go up against vampires.
Vampire Superman & Count Dracula (as a bat).
Superfriends. “Attack of the Vampire” (1978). In this story Dracula awakens and starts turning others into vampires using some magical dust (this was a “Saturday morning cartoon” after all). Another method of turning people into vampires was shooting rays out of his eyes, a trick his newly created vampire minions were likewise able to perform. The Super Friends – including Batman & Robin – investigate and some of them even end up being transformed into vampires themselves. It’s pretty much in line with the rest of these Super Friends episodes, it has it’s certain charm but it is a bit silly, for lack of a better word, but that’s not exactly supposed to be a complaint. It’s a decent way to waste time and offers some neat designs for the Super Friends vampires. Plus, Batman plays a pretty big role here, so it is a fine addition to this list.
A slightly different vampire appears in a later Super Friends short, “Voodoo Vampire” (1980). This animated short mainly focused on Batman & Robin teaming-up with Black Vulcan to stop an African vampiress from turning more people into her slaves. This time, the beams to turn people into vampires are shot from their fangs, which sounds and looks a bit too silly, but it is what it is. There’s really not a lot to comment on the cartoon other than maybe that Batman is turned into a vampire this time, but again, it’s one of Batman’s animated confrontations with a vampire, so it belongs in this list."
Read the full article here.
