Batman Likes his Steak Rare.
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A repost from s_d 1. This is from Batman #247 (1973) by Denny O'Neil and Dick Giordano. I love it. Love the art and the characterization and the dialogue. If you get a chance--until it gets reprinted--grab it from the backbins of your LCS or a longbox in an antique mall/vintage place and check the whole story out, along with the way Bruce, Dick, Alfred and Gordon all are written and the way they interact with each other. Very fun!
A little under five pages of a 17 and a half page story.
Some other cool stuff happens, and then...
Yeah, cheap punk! But I will eat the steak off your fork.
Happy New Year!
suggested tags: creator: denny o'neil, creator: dick giordano, publisher: dc, title: batman, era: bronze age
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Date: 2010-01-01 12:12 am (UTC)Go Bruce! Swipe that steak, pally! You really are a toughie!
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Date: 2010-01-01 12:45 am (UTC)Though, now I have a strange urge to see Batman say "Yo!".
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Date: 2010-01-01 01:30 am (UTC)http://yobatman.blogspot.com/2009/09/batman-is-facebook-creepster.html
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Date: 2010-01-01 01:23 am (UTC)Suddenly flashed on this and realized it's Frank Robbins using it, too.
In a way. Anyway, for me the use of the word 'kid' is much less egregious than a lot of things that happened to either one of them since. (I mean, my dad calls me 'kid' sometimes. And he means it fondly.) Do think they're trying to make him hip though, and O'Neil definitely has a distinctive style of Bat-dialogue.
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Date: 2010-01-01 12:43 pm (UTC)And a father using the term "kid", fondly is one thing, but I don't get that vibe from the scene shown. It's a matter of fact use.
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Date: 2010-01-01 04:30 pm (UTC)*Or didn't before, anyway. I'll think about it, but so far it still doesn't. I know I'll be much more conscious of the word when reading Batman now, though!
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Date: 2010-01-01 11:21 pm (UTC)Think I'll post a few scans when I get a minute.
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Date: 2010-01-01 12:23 am (UTC)The Batman Adventures Holiday Special comic used the Joker, and the Holiday Knights BTAS version of that did the same but with Tim Drake shoved into the story for no apparent reason.
And the awesome The Batman episode "Seconds" did the same with their Clock King analog Francis Grey.
It's either an homage to this or a really, really popular supervillain plot.
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Date: 2010-01-01 04:14 am (UTC)Absolutely! Me too. Definitely what I wait and watch for! Love it. It's the best!
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:44 pm (UTC)Ummm... I think we ALL knew that Dickie-boy.
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