Batman franchise media the television show singing in-character were released in 1966: Burgess Meredith as the Penguin in "The Capture" and "The Escape", Frank Gorshin as the Riddler in "The Riddler", and Adam West as Batman in "Miranda". In 1976 West performed a pair of novelty songs, "The Story of Batman" and "Batman and Robin", for Target Records. All six of these recordings (sans the b-sides to Gorshin and West's singles) were later included on the 1997 compilation, "Batmania: Songs Inspired by Batman TV Series". In 1966, Burt Ward also recorded a limited "disc jokey only" release with Frank Zappa called "Boy Wonder,
Batman and the Mad Monk Batman and the Mad Monk Batman and the Mad Monk is an American comic book limited series, featuring the DC Comics superhero Batman published in 2006-2007. It is set during the "" continuity, but after the events of "Batman and the Monster Men" and before the events of "". It is the second part of Matt Wagner's two part "" series, which are expanded and modernized versions of Golden Age Batman stories. Batman must counter sinister machinations and new dimensions of wickedness as he confronts the hooded menace of the Mad Monk, his first encounter with a supernatural villain. He