Bizzare: Vintage Batman Black Friday Commercial
By Skip Harvey
In 1986 chain retailer Zayre decided to make a pre-Christmas sale starring the Batman 66 versions of The Caped Crusader and The Boy Wonder trying to get a jump on savings.
The production values are remarkably high and the reproduction is uncanny. That’s probably why Adam West sued the company that year. 4 years later Zayre was absorbed into the T.J. Maxx retail chain, and this is one of the only fleeting memories of its existence.
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