{"id":2328600,"date":"2026-03-15T01:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2328600"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T01:05:09","slug":"why-batman-villain-poison-ivy-only-exists-because-of-the-adam-west-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-batman-villain-poison-ivy-only-exists-because-of-the-adam-west-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Batman Villain Poison Ivy Only Exists Because Of The Adam West Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The floral femme fatale <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17063931\/\">Poison Ivy<\/a> debuted in 1966&#8217;s &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096895\/\">Batman<\/a>&#8221; #181, the same year that the &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096895\/\">Batman<\/a>&#8221; TV series starring <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001842\/\">Adam West<\/a> hit the air. While Ivy never appeared on the show, she owes her existence to it. Ivy was co-created by writers <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1066073\/\">Sheldon Moldoff<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1189825\/\">Robert Kanigher<\/a>, and artist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0408639\/\">Carmine Infantino<\/a>, all prolific part of DC&#8217;s Silver Age stable of writers and artists.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2007 interview, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12899449\/\">Infantino<\/a> revealed Ivy was created due to the popularity of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0628325\/\">Julie Newmar<\/a>&#8216;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0327554\/\">Catwoman<\/a> on &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096895\/\">Batman<\/a>.&#8221; &#8220;They wanted more female villains [for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm7100125\/\">Batman<\/a>],&#8221; Infantino recounted. Indeed, in Ivy&#8217;s debut issue, her goal is to become the no. 1 female villain of Gotham City, against rivals like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5010796\/\">Dragon Fly<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The floral femme fatale Poison Ivy debuted in 1966&#8217;s &#8220;Batman&#8221; #181, the same year that the &#8220;Batman&#8221; TV series starring Adam West hit the air. While Ivy never appeared on the show, she owes her existence to it. Ivy was co-created by writers Sheldon Moldoff, Robert Kanigher, and artist Carmine Infantino, all prolific part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2328601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2328600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Why-Batman-Villain-Poison-Ivy-Only-Exists-Because-Of-The.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328602,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328600\/revisions\/2328602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2328601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}