30 Days of Scans: Day 10: Most Cracktastic Moment

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness

From Star Spangled Comics #69

I think this actually has two moments of breathtaking crackiness!

Here's the first; Gotham City, home of a slightly skewed view of historical events...



Now Lord knows I LIKE the kid in the pixie boots, but there is no way in heaven I would equate him with the steamboat guy or Columbus. maybe Marconi... but only if Marconi looked REALLY good in feathered briefs...

Anyway, since we're not looking at the story here, but the crack, we cut to the finale, where a couple of bag guys have stolen an atom bomb and are flying it... by blimp, out to sea where they plan on holding it for ransom... either the USA pays up, or they sell it to "a Fascist Government" (This is 1947)... Robin confronts the brains, and bulk, of the operation...




Yes..."Robin, the Boy Wonder, youngest person to ever cause a friggin ATOM BOMB to explode just off the shore of North Americas Eastern seaboard, and somehow manage to escape the force of the blast by blimp!"

Oh, and as for "Robin Island"... obviously a REAL des res... home to irradiated haddock and the occasional mutant limpet... but on the plus side, you wouldn't need to worry about an electricity bill at night because it sodding well glows in the dark!
 

Comments

[cypherfdp]

What I'm looking at is the guy with a clock for a head.

[icon_uk]

Which one though... there's this guy, The Clock and then there's the Clock King

[recognitions]

Let's not forget the Priests of the Orqwith Ossuary:

[darkblade]

He hasn't quite ascended to the Clock throne yet.

[jcbaggee]

Hey now, he's a sensational villain!

[darkknightjrk]

Let me get this straight--through dropping an atom bomb, Dick Grayson found his own island and made history?

...

Someone give this issue to Grant Morrison STAT. He would have FUN with this. :D

[icon_uk]

Not so much found as CREATED!

[icon_uk]

Oh, and as for Robin's having their own islands, maybe THIS explains Dick's reaction to Damian's little boast here

[darkknightjrk]

In Dick's mind, he's thinking, "Should I own this bitch by telling him I have an island? ...Nah, let him have his little bit of fun."

[jcbaggee]

I demand that Robin's Island be visited in canon. Dick Grayson had the radiation cleared years ago, and it's now home to his own personal harem.

[darkblade]

It's where the real Cass, Diana, Roy and Lian are hiding out right?

[jcbaggee]

I could get behind this story.

[icon_uk]

The real Cass, Diana, Roy and Lian fighting mutant giant lizards!! For FUN!

[seriousfic]

Lian is part of Dick's harem?

[alashandra]

No, that would be Roy. But you wouldn't separate a little girl from her daddies, would you?

*glares at DC*

[endis_ni]

Joining the glare!

[darkblade]

No but she's the daughter of a member so Dick lets her stay.

Alternatively he could take after Bruce and start young.

Um...

[nefrekeptah]

His own personal HAREM.

I don't think I'd want Lian there, thanks.

Re: Um...

[darkblade]

Dick is cool enough to let his harem members bring their family to the island to hang out sometimes.

[silverzeo]

For shame Morrison, how could you let this pass you by?

[superfangirl1]

Batman looks cute with the headphone and little microphone

[inexpediency]

Dick looks so excited in that fourth-to-last panel. Actually he kind of looks like little kids when they talk about something they made up or dreamed and think it's real. And then everyone else is just playing along.

[thanekos]

Irradiated haddock?

Billions of blue blistering barnacles indeed.

[psychopathicus_rex]

I think the idea is that the bomb had plunged some distance below the surface of the water before it exploded - as it would have to, to have brought up an island - thereby shielding the blimp from the brunt of the blast.
Also - 'Robin's Island'? I wonder if Nelson Mandela has ever read this...

Fun with misspellings.

[nefrekeptah]

we cut to the finale, where a couple of bag guys have stolen an atom bomb and are flying it.

A couple of "bag" guys? So the perpetrators are a bunch of disgruntled Safeway employees, I take it.