Americans were drawn to the camp, choreographed violence of the “Dynamic Duo,” Batman and Robin, whose televised adventures followed news broadcasts two nights a week beginning in January 1966. The show’s popularity waned by its second year, perhaps, as cartoonist Jules Feiffer (b. 1929) suggests, because its comic book plots could not compete with news that brought horrors of war into the nation’s living rooms. In 1971, an artist employed iconic comic book superheroes to satirize the nation’s leaders.