I vaguely remember hearing jokes about frozen Walt as a kid in the 80s/90s, but I don't think I heard references to his head until after Ted Williams passed away in the early 00s and that whole scandal happened.
If you do any more TAS episodes 'Beware the Gray Ghost' should be on the list. Adam West being in it is cool but I like how it touches on the creative environment in which Batman was first conceived. He was really something of a latecomer in the explosion of masked vigilante characters in the 1930's. Before him we had: The Shadow, The Phantom, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, The Spider, Captain Midnight and others. Batman was one of the first to debut in comics rather than pulp magazines or radio serials but concept-wise, there wasn't much to make him stand for his first year and half or so, though he did start to become more distinct over time. It's by an interesting series of paradoxes that Batman would be the only of these characters who remains consistently popular today.
I think it doesn't really matter if it was just the head or the whole body, either way the tech probably would have been the same for revival and repair of the tissue in "the future". The head is the minimum needed for a "person".
I vaguely remember hearing jokes about frozen Walt as a kid in the 80s/90s, but I don't think I heard references to his head until after Ted Williams passed away in the early 00s and that whole scandal happened.
This urban myth leaves feeling cold.
Instead of having my head frozen, I'll wait for time travel.
If you do any more TAS episodes 'Beware the Gray Ghost' should be on the list. Adam West being in it is cool but I like how it touches on the creative environment in which Batman was first conceived. He was really something of a latecomer in the explosion of masked vigilante characters in the 1930's. Before him we had: The Shadow, The Phantom, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, The Spider, Captain Midnight and others. Batman was one of the first to debut in comics rather than pulp magazines or radio serials but concept-wise, there wasn't much to make him stand for his first year and half or so, though he did start to become more distinct over time. It's by an interesting series of paradoxes that Batman would be the only of these characters who remains consistently popular today.
I think it doesn't really matter if it was just the head or the whole body, either way the tech probably would have been the same for revival and repair of the tissue in "the future". The head is the minimum needed for a "person".
Walt sent me.