Batman Colorforms
ID 96.80.2
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By the end of the 1960s,
the spy craze had run its course in the mass media. Fickle American tastes
turned to Batman and the moon walk, to Woodstock and the New York Mets.
Into the 1970s, many Americans—increasingly disillusioned with the
Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal—began to question the whole
role of international and domestic espionage. Spying just wasn’t
hip anymore. James Bond managed to survive because he changed with the
times. The handsome men who played Bond in the movies—including
Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan—didn’t hurt either.
The other spies of the ‘60s are long gone, except as their ghostly
spirit echoes today through the guise of tongue-in-cheek retro-spy Austin
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