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All All. Sign In. Play video Remembering Adam West. Speer , an opera singer. At age 10, in , West had a cache of comic books; and starting in , Batman, who appeared in Detective Comics, made a big impression on him--the comic hero was part bat-man a la Count Dracula and part world's greatest detective a la Charlie Chan and Sherlock Holmes. When his mother remarried to a Dr.

Paul Flothow, she took West and his younger brother, John, to Seattle.

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At age 14, West attended Lakeside School, then went to Whitman College, where he got a degree in literature and psychology. During his last year of college, he married year-old Billie Lou Yeager. West got a job as a disc jockey at a local radio station, then enrolled at Stanford for post-grad courses. Drafted into the army, he spent the next two years starting military television stations, first at San Luis Obispo, California, then at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

When the money ran out, he joined a childhood and college buddy, Carl Hebenstreit, who was starring in the kiddie program "The Kini Popo Show" in Hawaii.