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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 8, 2021 12:09:11 GMT -5
Batman #251 is an obscure Joker story. Whatever.
This article clearly was not meant for people who have ever actually read the comics.
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 8, 2021 22:43:07 GMT -5
Tonight I’m reading The Crime of Bruce Wayne from Detective Comics #249 (1957).
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Post by Hoosier X on Sept 9, 2021 10:49:04 GMT -5
There’s a villain called the Collector running around robbing museums. They really messed up by never having a story where the Collector and the Hobby Robber were serious rivals and causing a Gotham type ruckus commotion by trying to steal the same items.
So Gordon asks Bruce Wayne to go undercover at Gotham Prison to help stop a prison break. So Bruce lets himself get framed as the Collector and goes to the Big House. While preventing the jail break, one of the convicts is killed. The other convicts say that Wayne murdered him. So Bruce is convicted of murderer and goes to Death Row.
Gordon is the only who knows that Wayne was working undercover but he is in a coma from an auto accident.
So Robin asks Batwoman to help prove that Bruce is innocent. He tells her that Batman is away on an important case and Batwoman very politely doesn’t mention how convenient and implausible it is that Brice Wayne is incarcerated at the same time that Batman is unavailable.
And somehow they prove Bruce Wayne is innocent and he is released from prison. The details are just as foggy now as they were when I read the story last night. Something about hairs from a blonde wig dyed black and a fingerprint with a scar on it taken off a bullet.
COMIC BOOK CRACK!
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 1, 2021 22:30:12 GMT -5
I got a DC Archives volume from the library. It’s the second volume of New Look Batman so it’s Batman 168 to 171 and Detective 334 to 339. So yeah there’s all sorts of great classic dumbass Silver Age silliness in these pages.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 3, 2021 17:43:24 GMT -5
I bid on a VG copy of Detective Comics #262 and I got it for $41, which seems like a good deal.
On the cover Batman and Robin are fighting a guy in an Anubis mask calling himself the Jackal of the Underworld. I assume the rest of the issue is the usual suspects Roy Raymond and the Martian Manhunter.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 12, 2021 22:20:38 GMT -5
I ordered my own copy of Batman in the Fifties and it came in the mail today!
I love this collection.
The best thing about it is the origin of Catwoman. There’s one panel where the caption says the cat is a red Persian and it’s colored any shade except red in every reprint I’ve ever seen. Here, the colorist seems to have read the caption and the cat is dark orange, which is probably the right color for a red Persian.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 13, 2021 13:00:59 GMT -5
I ordered my own copy of Batman in the Fifties and it came in the mail today! I love this collection. The best thing about it is the origin of Catwoman. There’s one panel where the caption says the cat is a red Persian and it’s colored any shade except red in every reprint I’ve ever seen. Here, the colorist seems to have read the caption and the cat is dark orange, which is probably the right color for a red Persian. I love this collection, too. Much more there than you might think based on its size. Enjoy! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 28, 2021 21:41:19 GMT -5
I ordered my own copy of Batman in the Fifties and it came in the mail today! I love this collection. The best thing about it is the origin of Catwoman. There’s one panel where the caption says the cat is a red Persian and it’s colored any shade except red in every reprint I’ve ever seen. Here, the colorist seems to have read the caption and the cat is dark orange, which is probably the right color for a red Persian. I love this collection, too. Much more there than you might think based on its size. Enjoy! The stories are very well chosen for importance to the mythos, for entertainment value and for being representative of some of the crazy-ass crap that was Batman in the 1950s. (Although I really wish they had found room for Calendar Man, Double X and/or The Terrible Trio. And where’s the Gorilla Boss!?!?) |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 28, 2021 21:47:24 GMT -5
I put a low bid on a copy of Detective Comics #264. It’s several days into the auction and no one has bid on it. Maybe I’ll get a good deal on this.
It’s one of those “murder at the amusement park” stories. It’s reprinted in one of the 80-page Giants so I’ve read it online. I think it’s the issue with the “murder at an amusement park” theme.
I’ve also read the Martian Manhunter story because it’s reprinted in a Showcase volume.
But the Roy Raymond story is new to me! Boyoboy I can hardly wait!
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Post by MDG on Oct 29, 2021 9:20:40 GMT -5
I ordered my own copy of Batman in the Fifties and it came in the mail today! I love this collection. The best thing about it is the origin of Catwoman. There’s one panel where the caption says the cat is a red Persian and it’s colored any shade except red in every reprint I’ve ever seen. Here, the colorist seems to have read the caption and the cat is dark orange, which is probably the right color for a red Persian. I love this collection, too. Much more there than you might think based on its size. Enjoy! I'm about halfway through it via Hoopla. It's a fun collection, but I was really hoping for more Dick Sprang. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 29, 2021 12:51:12 GMT -5
I love this collection, too. Much more there than you might think based on its size. Enjoy! I'm about halfway through it via Hoopla. It's a fun collection, but I was really hoping for more Dick Sprang. Dick Sprang is my favorite Batman artist of all time ... but I love ALL the Batman artists from this period. Like Lew Sayre Schwartz on insane stories like The Gorilla Boss. And so much weird spastic anatomy from Moldoff. These comics are so much fun. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 31, 2021 20:11:46 GMT -5
I got that Detective 264 for only $13.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 6, 2022 23:14:34 GMT -5
Detective Comics #255 came in the mail yesterday. Yay!
The Batman story is called “One Ounce of Doom!” and Ace the Bat-Hound is featured prominently on the cover, grabbing a spear (from a spear-gun) in mid-air with his mouth! Somehow! Saving Batman’s life.
It starts with a scientist standing by an open window, musing out loud that the substance in this box will make him rich and famous. A phone call lures him from the open window.
There’s a comic-strip hobo at the window, listening. (I suspect he crept up to the house hoping to steal a pie cooling on the window sill.) He has a stick with a bindle hanky on the end and he uses the stick to snag the box handle and he absconds with the loot!
The scientist finds his box missing and calls the cops. There’s a cylinder in the box and a vial in the cylinder, and inside the vial is a rather vaguely described dangerous liquid that can cause an explosion that will destroy a city block. And if the vial is removed from the cylinder, it is rigged to blow up in thirty minutes!
Of course Batman is called, and Ace comes along. The Bat-hound tracks the hobo to the rail yard, but the cylinder rolls off the roof and onto a passing train!
And then ... well, the usual hijinks ensue. The cylinder passes from hand to hand, from the hobo to some Boy Scouts (who go to one of Gotham’s many amusement parks while planning to turn in the cylinder later) to some crooks to another set of crooks. The last crooks remove the vial, setting off the timer, and hide it in Bat-Hound’s cowl!
Batman and Robin find the vial JUST IN TIME!
Whew! That was stressful.
I love this story.
Bat-Hound is awesome.
There’s also Roy Raymond and the Martian Manhunter. I read them last night, but I don’t remember them very well. I assume things happened of some kind or another.
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Post by chadwilliam on Jan 7, 2022 19:04:45 GMT -5
Detective Comics #255 came in the mail yesterday. Yay! The Batman story is called “One Ounce of Doom!” and Ace the Bat-Hound is featured prominently on the cover, grabbing a spear (from a spear-gun) in mid-air with his mouth! Somehow! Saving Batman’s life. You have to wonder how John Wilker would have reacted to finding out just what Bruce Wayne was doing with his dog when he was supposed to be babysitting him. How is fighting criminals and catching spears in his mouth all that different from getting Ace involved in some underground dogfighting ring dangerwise? I swear, if Wilker had asked him to take care of his human baby while he's away, Bruce Wayne would have found the slightest excuse to get him tagging along on Bat-Patrol every night. "Look at the way Junior dodged that ball I tossed to him! hmm... perhaps he could dodge bullets just as easily... Where's my Bat-Baby outfit?" |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 7, 2022 21:01:27 GMT -5
Detective Comics #255 came in the mail yesterday. Yay! The Batman story is called “One Ounce of Doom!” and Ace the Bat-Hound is featured prominently on the cover, grabbing a spear (from a spear-gun) in mid-air with his mouth! Somehow! Saving Batman’s life. You have to wonder how John Wilker would have reacted to finding out just what Bruce Wayne was doing with his dog when he was supposed to be babysitting him. How is fighting criminals and catching spears in his mouth all that different from getting Ace involved in some underground dogfighting ring dangerwise? I swear, if Wilker had asked him to take care of his human baby while he's away, Bruce Wayne would have found the slightest excuse to get him tagging along on Bat-Patrol every night. "Look at the way Junior dodged that ball I tossed to him! hmm... perhaps he could dodge bullets just as easily... Where's my Bat-Baby outfit?" I’m cracking up! But seriously ... Gotham is a weird place. I’d have to find out if Wilker is a native Gothamite or some rube from Central City or Metropolis before I would try to guess what his reaction would be. |
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