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icon_ukWhen celebrating Robin's 80th Anniversary, we should perhaps, take a look back at how it all started.
( Tale as old as time... well, 1940 at any rate )
( Tale as old as time... well, 1940 at any rate )
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One of Bill Finger's most heartrending stories, and one of my favourites from the Golden Age.
( 'Easy, Dick... be a good soldier!' )
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An example of the clinically realistic way superhero comics depict the onset of mental illness.
We're all familiar with the long-discredited Golden Age trope in which exposure to radioactive elements gives people beneficial super-powers. But even then, there were comic-book characters who weren't so lucky when exposed to radiation, voluntarily or otherwise. In the "voluntarily" category, for example, we have Professor Henry Ross, who just wanted to invent a cure for death.
( 'But in so doing, he created Frankenstein's monster' )
icon_ukAs the comics world mourns the passing of a legend, let's look back at Batman #1, and the debut of the character Mr Jerry Robinson will forever be connected with. A character with one of the most eponymous calling cards of all time.
( Smile damn you smile! )
( Smile damn you smile! )
pyrotwilightJerry Robinson has today passed away. Though it was often disputed he's best know for being the creator or co-creator of the Joker. But regardless his work and part in the creation of the Bat Mythos is the stuff of legend today. Needless to say he's one of DC's greats.
And of course as having created the Joker he made a character almost as world renowned as Batman and Robin themselves.
Thanks to Jerry Robinson Joker's existed for so long that much like Batman he's been used in a number of ways. Thus I have to say my favorite shall always be of what if the Joker were a hero from The Search for Ray Palmer: Crime Society as we meet the Jokester of Earth-3. I've seen Jerry at a couple of New York comic conventions, I was hoping one day to get him to sign my page from this issue, but alas that time has passed.
( The Jokester's Last Laugh )
And of course as having created the Joker he made a character almost as world renowned as Batman and Robin themselves.
Thanks to Jerry Robinson Joker's existed for so long that much like Batman he's been used in a number of ways. Thus I have to say my favorite shall always be of what if the Joker were a hero from The Search for Ray Palmer: Crime Society as we meet the Jokester of Earth-3. I've seen Jerry at a couple of New York comic conventions, I was hoping one day to get him to sign my page from this issue, but alas that time has passed.
( The Jokester's Last Laugh )
The Untold Tales of Batman and Robin
Jul. 27th, 2011 09:14 amchocochuyBuon Giorno, True Believers!
Today I was reading some of mine Batman books and found some hilarious pictures that I want to share with you.
( Whatever Happened to the Dynamic Duo? )
Today I was reading some of mine Batman books and found some hilarious pictures that I want to share with you.
( Whatever Happened to the Dynamic Duo? )
