The entire Kato/Robin relationship in a single panel

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From digital edition #9 of "Batman 66 meets the Green Hornet"





Now, in fairness to the Boy Wonder, neither Green Hornet nor Kato have clued anyone else in on the fact that they're really working for the good guys by pretending to be villains, so Robin really has no reason to trust, or like, Kato when the Green Hornet proposes an alliance to stop the duo of Joker and General Gumm, but Robin's grumpy, pouty-face was too awesome not to share!

Comments

[crimsonmoonmist]

Robin X Bruce Lee? I'd ship that in a heartbeat!

[randyripoff]

Legend has it that when the Green Hornet and Kato were set to appear on the Batman! TV show that Burt Ward thought he could take Bruce Lee in a fight. Knowing this, watching the fight scenes from those episodes is quite hilarious, as Lee makes Ward appear to be approximately 3x slower than himself.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, never a legend that should be taken too seriously, as Lee and Ward actually lived in the same condominium for a while and Lee had given Ward at least one Kung Fu lesson, so Ward knew full well how good Lee was.

[chortles81]

The version I heard that was Bruce Lee was more bothered by the writers of the crossover originally booking Robin to win against Kato than anything Ward himself did... only for it to be changed to a draw after Lee made a show of chasing Ward around the set until someone cracked wise about "the black panther and the yellow canary".

[icon_uk]

Yeah, that one makes even less sense when you consider that the crossover only took place to promote the already failing Green Hornet series, so having one of the two guys they were desperately trying to promote LOSE would be very odd.

There does appear to have been some minor teasing of Burt Ward (most likely because he tried to pass himself off as more of a martial artist than Lee knew him to be), but the fight being to a draw seems most likely to have been there from the start,

[kamino_neko]

Is this the same Gumm they fought in their first team-up? (And is the show canon for the comic, or is it just a stylistic borrowing?)

[icon_uk]

It's the same Colonel Gumm, but following an accident when developing new adhesives his face is permanently coated with a layer of glue and he gave himself a field promotion to General Gumm.... the disfigured face is because they couldn't get permission to use Roger C Carmel's likeness.

The comic is entirely based on the original 66 TV series, and everything that happened in the series happened in the comic, we've even had Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt appearing as Catwoman in different stories without a word of explanation about the changeover.

[kamino_neko]

Cool, thanks for the info.

we've even had Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt appearing as Catwoman in different stories without a word of explanation about the changeover.

Hah. That's awesome. Why am I not reading this series?

[icon_uk]

No idea! :)

We have a few other samples from it around here

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4415579.html

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4478068.html

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4519660.html

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4570894.html

http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4638557.html