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icon_ukIt seemed an apt choice for scans_daily! :)
This costume has been used a lot by various DC media, it's got it's own Funko Pop, showed up as an extra skin in the DC Lego games and even showed up in a memorable pre-credits sequence in "Batman: The Brave and the Bold", though there it was slotted into a story featuring Firefly and the Rainbow Creature. who were Silver Age menaces in their own right
But what IS the original story all this comes from? Well, read on an learn my lovelies... read on and learn...
( as we reach back over 60 years to March 1957 )
This costume has been used a lot by various DC media, it's got it's own Funko Pop, showed up as an extra skin in the DC Lego games and even showed up in a memorable pre-credits sequence in "Batman: The Brave and the Bold", though there it was slotted into a story featuring Firefly and the Rainbow Creature. who were Silver Age menaces in their own right
But what IS the original story all this comes from? Well, read on an learn my lovelies... read on and learn...
( as we reach back over 60 years to March 1957 )
icon_ukFor all the kind words following my ascension to Mod-hood.
My tendency towards the... Robin-centric end of the comic book spectrum was noted more than once in those accolades... and who am I to buck a trend?
( When good bird-boys go BAD! )
My tendency towards the... Robin-centric end of the comic book spectrum was noted more than once in those accolades... and who am I to buck a trend?
( When good bird-boys go BAD! )
icon_ukMark Evanier has reported on his blog that Sheldon "Shelly" Moldoff, the last surviving creator to have worked on the legendary Action Comics #1 passed away on Wednesday, at the grand old age of 91.
( Now THIS is a body of work to leave behind. )
( Now THIS is a body of work to leave behind. )
icon_ukThat's a whole lot of number two's....
Anyway, in Batman 145 we return to a future where a grown up Dick Grayson has become Batman and Bruce's son is Robin...
( Like that would ever happen of course... )
Anyway, in Batman 145 we return to a future where a grown up Dick Grayson has become Batman and Bruce's son is Robin...
( Like that would ever happen of course... )
icon_ukA few weeks ago, "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" featured the story "The Knights of Tomorrow", which details an imaginary story written by Alfred which postulates what happens when Dick takes over as Batman, and Bruce and Selina Kyle-Wayne's son Damian becomes the new Robin...
It is in fact an amalgam of the current Batman story, and one from a loooooong time before, April 1960 to be precise, Batman 131, which is the first of two stories I know which feature the concept. I'll post the second one soon, and if there are others I'll try and find them.
The story is also notable for yet another "Context is for the weak" panels reflective of a more innocent time and before the meaning-shift of a few words...
( He ain't Damian that's for sure... )
It is in fact an amalgam of the current Batman story, and one from a loooooong time before, April 1960 to be precise, Batman 131, which is the first of two stories I know which feature the concept. I'll post the second one soon, and if there are others I'll try and find them.
The story is also notable for yet another "Context is for the weak" panels reflective of a more innocent time and before the meaning-shift of a few words...
( He ain't Damian that's for sure... )
mr_neutronBatman has gotten involved with many strange women over the years. But none has been as delightfully strange as Patricia Powell, Policewoman...
( Read more... )
( Read more... )
