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Thu May 13, 2021 at 4:55pm ET Batman vs Elmer Fudd. Pic credit: DC Comics As one of the most popular superheroes on the planet, it’s no surprise Batman has seen more than his share of fantastic team-ups.  It’s not just with the usual DC heroes like Superman or Wonder Woman either. DC and Marvel have worked together for crossovers where Batman has met Captain America and Spider-Man for adventures. There are also intercompany crossovers that paired the Dark Knight up with Spawn, Hellboy, and even the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Sign up for our newsletter! Yet some fascinating Batman cros...

Last modified on Mon 10 May 2021 16.18 EDT “I’d like to be remembered as the Dreaded Marcel Stellman,” Marcel Stellman once told me. “That’s what Spike Milligan called me. I produced I’m Walking Backwards for Christmas with the Goons in 1956 and I thought it would be a Christmas release. Spike insisted that it came out in the summer. It was a Top 10 hit and we followed it with The Ying Tong Song.” Stellman, who has died aged 96, had a long career in the music industry, both as a record executive and producer with Decca, and as a song lyricist whose hits included Tulips from Amst...

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NOW pay attention, readers. The glitz and glamour of James Bond's super-spy lifestyle has more in common with Swindon than you might think. The latest on-screen incarnation of Ian Fleming's tuxedo-clad womaniser is of course played by Daniel Craig - but did you know his middle name has a surprising link to this borough? His middle name is Wroughton, though the explanation for this unusual choice of appears to be classified. 007's creator used to live near Swindon in the manor Warneford Place for several years and is now buried just down the road at St James' Church in Sevenhampto...

On the other hand, maybe Ginsberg does have some insight into werewolves. Howl isn’t going to help this reporter unlock the mysteries of The Colony, a forest retreat that appears to be populated by creatures of the night, but this is a poem about aberrant sexuality, the rejection of repressive societal norms and the implicit desire for communities that exist outside the mainstream. Then again, these are actual monsters, people who might imagine themselves to be expressing the primitive desires at the heart of mankind, but are only serving their own appetites. They’re fake radicals. Ginsbe...