Darren Maxwell’s Batman collection spans everything from badges to branded ice-creams. But a new documentary shows fandom is not all fun and figurines
In the community and in the media there is widespread awareness about many kinds of addictions – from drug and alcohol dependencies to food, sex, pokies and video games. As far as I am aware, however, there is a dearth of knowledge about a more, erm, esoteric kind of addiction: collecting Batman merchandise from the 80s and 90s.
This rather niche fixation beleaguered Darren “Dags” Maxwell – a former collector, Melburnian and active member of the Australian science fiction fan community – for more than three decades. He is, along with his extensive Batman merch assemblage, the subject of Batman and Me, an Australian feature-length documentary premiering on Tuesday 30 June at this year’s online-only Melbourne documentary film festival.
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