@ExTechOp said:

The name of this 15-part movie serial should be "Batman", not "The Bat Man". Why has it been explicitly changed?

I haven't seen The Bat Man, but from a purely linguistic point of view, I think it sounds sorta stupid. By the way, henceforth, all of you must refer to me as The Rooprect.

Agree that the 1943 film series is great and clever and suspenseful because The Bat Man and Robin really know how to get out of unthinkable scrapes conducted by those vile criminal guest stars.

So maybe let's look at some etymologies as to how the names "The Bat Man" and "Batman" lead to the comic book series, which introduces this set of exciting film serials, beginning in 1943....

https://www.wordnik.com/words/batman

Batman

Definitions...

• from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition n. A British military officer's orderly.

• from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License n. A servant or valet to an army officer. n. A unit of weight used in the East.

• from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English n. A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds. n. A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.

• from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia n. A person allowed by the government to every company of a regiment on foreign service. n. A Turkish weight varying in amount in different localities.

• from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. n. an orderly assigned to serve a British military officer

Etymologies...

• from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition Obsolete bat, packsaddle (from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum) + man.

• from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License bat (“packsaddle”) + man. The element bat is from French bât, from Old French bast.

• from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License From Turkish batman.

Also...

• In countries with some strange Sports stuff going on, a Bat Man could be defined as a team player in countries with some strange Sports stuff going on, like batting something inanimate with a paddle while riding something animate.

• In Kurdistanianish Turkey, there is a town known as Batman, in the shadows of the much more famous Mount Ararat.

• On classic rerun Television, the most famous and professional Batman and Robin of all may seen sometimes on those rare Saturday afternoon Late Shows, still as suspenseful as ever, and you still cannot wait for those Caped Crusaders, that Dynamic Duo, that BatMan and Boy Wonder to figure out ways to escape the clutches of those dastardly villains from one week until the next provided that anybody remembers where and when to tune in because it's not always on the same Bat time and same Bat station as the week before.

Okay, then it would seem as though "The Bat Man" and "Batman" stem from the same root words, which, in some languages develop from a single name, while in others from multiple generates.

Hope this begins to answer some questions because, yeah, it gets to became kind of mind-boggling when you start to think about how "The Bat Man" becomes "Batman" after "Batman" segues into "The Bat Man," which precedes "Batman" in film, but proceeds "Batman" in print, right?

I like the serial more than Dark Knight Rises. The serial was fun and MUCH closer to the spirit of the original comic that the recent film.

@ExTechOp said: The name of this 15-part movie serial should be "Batman", not "The Bat Man". Why has it been explicitly changed?

I've now changed it back to what it really should be.