![]() ![]() His prose work includes his own creations, but also licensed properties such as Planet of the Apes, X-Files, Spider-Man, Kolchak the Night Stalker and Captain Action. He’s gone on to write official Star Wars and Ghostbusters comics stories and contributed articles and essays to several volumes of comic book history. JIM BEARD has pounded out adventure fiction since he sold a story to DC Comics in 2002. The BATMAN ’66 Top 13 Episode Countdown: #6 - Instant Freeze/Rats Like Cheese. FREEZE: The Fifth Beatle of Batman Villains. Guy could be very popular at parties if he wasn’t a, you know, super-criminal. And he serves Baked Alaska, which is something he didn’t have to do, but does.ġ3. Like Robin says, “Diamante” is Italian for “diamond.” He should know because he’s studying Italian.ġ2. He kidnaps a guy just because of his name. Which is kind of honorable in a crooked sort of way.ġ1. I mean, who does that? Mister Freeze, that’s who, even though he was loathe to do it. Another rarity in Batman-we know Freeze’s real name is Doctor Schieval (although to me it sounds like Batman says “Schimmel.”)ġ0. “Instant Freeze” illustrates one of the very rare actual deaths in the series when Freeze freezes Sandra’s manservant and the poor guy falls over to smash into pieces on the floor.ĩ. He’s serious about his revenge on Batman, but still manages to crack himself up with “It’s cold cuts!” and “Das ist the vay the ice cube crumbles!”Ĩ. In underworld parlance, diamonds are “ice,” and Freeze wants only the very best-like the Star of Kashmir and the Circle of Ice.ħ. Back in 1966, a German accent on a crook still instantly said “Nazi,” so we knew instantly Freeze was really, really bad.Ħ. ![]() Why? In Freeze’s words, “First I toy, then I destroy!” And that says it all, nein?ĥ. ![]() He made decoys of both himself and Batman. Not only is it up in the mountains, but it also has hot-and-cold running paths he can turn on and off for his warm-blooded employees and guests. I mean, yeah, guy was already a crook, but he didn’t ask for a 50-degree-below-zero metabolism. It’s all Batman’s fault that Freeze is the way he is. He can shoot from the back of a moving van. I have always looked upon the amazing George Sanders as the very best of the three actors who chilled out in the role on Batman, and these following 13 points should coldly and logically explain why I believe so:ġ. Zero” precedent in a 1959 comic book, but Holy Heck, Batman, the cold cut-up followed immediately on the heels of the Riddler, Penguin and Joker in the series - in Instant Freeze/Rats Like Cheese - even beating Catwoman to the screen! In fact, he technically didn’t really exist at all before that, having only a “Mr. ![]() Freeze has long been an interesting choice for the Batman ’66 producers to have made when building their super-criminal rogues gallery-especially for the inaugural season of the show. A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE to the late actor, who was born 116 years ago on July 3, 1906…įor me, Mr. ![]()
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