Of course, much as the Batman TV show had its tongue firmly in its cheek, its fair to say the über-camp Adam West-led show put a major dent in the Dark Knights street cred. Much as the efforts of the likes of Frank Miller and Alan Moore in the late-eighties restored some measure of pride and brought the character back to his darker roots, the damage was done. It was inevitable that question marks about the relationship between Bruce Wayne and his young ward Dick Grayson would be raised at some point, and the fact that they shared a bed in Ten Nights of Fear! certainly didnt help matters. However, one of the reasons why the whole thing became an issue in the first place was the one-man crusade against comics instigated by Dr. Fredric Wertham. The German-born psychiatrists book Seduction of the Innocent was published in 1954, in which he put forward his views that comic books were dangerous and their depictions of violence and sexual behaviour had the potential to encourage similar behaviour in children. Amidst innumerable other conjectures, Wertham claimed The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious, thus beginning speculation about the Dynamic Duo that would never go away despite no real evidence or clear indication existing in any medium.
I watch movies and I watch sport. I also watch movies about sport, and if there were a sport about movies I'd watch that too. The internet was the closest thing I could find.
