Adam West, Los Angeles Times, (2004)
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We were making overstated morality plays for children that adults could watch and enjoy. We played it terribly serious, and that's half the fun of it.
— Adam on Batman (TV series)
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Source: Wikiquote: "Batman (TV series)" (About Batman (TV series), Minerva, Mayhem and Millionaires [3.26]: Gordon: Batman, you unscrambled that safe's combination in three seconds flat! How did you do it?
Batman: With my Three-Seconds-Flat-Bat-Combination-Unscrambler, Commissioner.
Robin: What happened to Batgirl?!
Batman: Who knows, Robin? Who ever knows?
''[The last original scene of the series])
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About Adam
Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם, Arabic: آدم) was, according to the Book of Genesis and the Qur'an, the first man created by God and noted as such in subsequent Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Bahá'í traditions and literature. In Hebrew ׳āḏām, meaning "human" coupled with the definite article, becomes "the human"; its root is linked to its triliteral root אָדָם (A-D-M ), meaning "red", "fair", "handsome". As a masculine noun, 'adam means "man", "mankind" usually in a collective context as in humankind. The noun 'adam is also the masculine form of the word adamah which means "ground" or "earth" and is related to the words: adom (red), admoni (ruddy), and dam (blood).
About Adam
Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם, Arabic: آدم) was, according to the Book of Genesis and the Qur'an, the first man created by God and noted as such in subsequent Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Bahá'í traditions and literature. In Hebrew ׳āḏām, meaning "human" coupled with the definite article, becomes "the human"; its root is linked to its triliteral root אָדָם (A-D-M ), meaning "red", "fair", "handsome". As a masculine noun, 'adam means "man", "mankind" usually in a collective context as in humankind. The noun 'adam is also the masculine form of the word adamah which means "ground" or "earth" and is related to the words: adom (red), admoni (ruddy), and dam (blood).
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