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| The Brave & the Bold #68; November, 1966 | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 18 2009, 08:43 AM (365 Views) | |
| Laughing Gravy | Jul 18 2009, 08:43 AM Post #1 |
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Holy Marvel Comics ripoff! Our next monthly funnybook reading features BATMAN turning into a non-greenskinned goliath and kickin' Metamorpho's elemental ass, much to the amusement of the Joker, Penguin, and Riddler! Saturday morning, August 1, ri-i-i-i-i-ght here In The Balcony!
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| Laughing Gravy | Jul 31 2009, 07:10 AM Post #2 |
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Just a reminder to join us tomorrow morning for THIS bad boy. |
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| Chandu | Jul 31 2009, 11:03 AM Post #3 |
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Just a reminder to keep gettin' caught up with your prize mailings, which is why you went to one funnybook reading per month in the first place. My, I must have been a long way down the list! |
| Not plane, nor bird, nor even frog. It's just little ol' me... | |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Jul 31 2009, 11:57 AM Post #4 |
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Unfortunately, I will not be in attendance. |
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"She's got style, she's got grace She's got long, long legs, she's got... Savoir Faire" | |
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 06:07 AM Post #5 |
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Good morning, Brave & Bold ones! Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, well, late summer 1966 anyway, as Batmania sweeps the nation (and Pepe, Chief of our Balcony custodial staff, sweeps the floor). 
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 06:12 AM Post #6 |
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Yeah, so, anyway, I was 8 years old when this funnybook came out. I don't think I saw the Batman movie in theatres, but I did watch the TV show religiously. Hey, I was 8, like I said. So anyway, let's let Editor George Kashdan give us a chance to show us what his crack assembly of fine funnybook artists and writers and colorists and letterers can do...
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 06:16 AM Post #7 |
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Okay, THIS is odd... While Bruce Wayne puts on his Batman gear (which is stored, not down a sliding pole but just in the closet, next to his starched white shirts and Nehru jacket, I guess), the narrator gives us a helpful recitation ("This is a closet in the home of the most famous hero... This is a secret door in the home of the most famous hero..."). In any case, Bruce gets dressed (whining about Robin's absence on a Teen Titans mission) and heads out in his Batmobile, wondering aloud, "Wonder what's lying in wait in the concrete jungle of Gotham City tonight?" Told ya he was wondering. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 06:19 AM Post #8 |
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Tooling around town bored, Batman switches on his car's bat-monitor to watch TV (The Green Hornet, maybe?) and whose mug should appear but -- THE RIDDLER! Holy special guest star! He chortles, "Ha! Ha! Greetings, Bat-Guy!" and then "Riddle me this! If a man makes a spectacle of himself, what crimes will lurk in the heart of the ice palace? Ha! Ha! Hee! Heeeee!" Batman muses about all this and finally, still bored, heads over to the Optometry Building, which has giant eyeglasses atop it. 
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 06:36 AM Post #9 |
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The Caped Crusader grabs the diamond "with a lightning stab of his gauntleted hand", and don't I wish I could write like that? Anyway, it explodes! It's a gas bomb! Holy stinky hot rock! The Riddler escapes, and Batman next spots the Penguin soaring high above the city via a flying umbrella. Holy flightless bird in flight! The Penguin tells his foe, "You probably think there are no PASSENGER PIGEONS in GOTHAM CITY! You are wrong! Ta-ta for now!" Villains who say "Ta-Ta" are not to be taken seriously, in my opinion. Batman hopefully points out to us, out here in funnybook land, that passenger pigeons have been extinct since 1913. But - there's a STUFFED one Gotham Museum! So, he heads over there, see... 
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 06:43 AM Post #10 |
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The Joker tells Bat-Guy that he's installed a bomb that will destroy the Batmobile - and its driver - in exactly 10 seconds. Thinking quickly, the Dark Knight presses his Anti-Booby-Trap Button (yes, really, and I think you buy those at Home Depot) and... Holy Hoisted on your Own Petard! The Anti-Booby-Trap Button is booby trapped! We didn't see THAT coming! Batman is sprayed with gas, and the Batmobile is wrecked, and Batman goes into some sort of a laughing jag. That Joker, what a kidder. Meanwhile, Bob and Ken build a new AMT model, a really lovely 1966 Imperial convertible. And did you want 217 different stamps for only a quarter? Neither did I.
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 06:49 AM Post #11 |
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Yeah, so, Bat-Hulk stomps off into the night, hurling fireballs from his giant hairy fists. Commissioner Gordon, driving around at night in a squad car (picking up hookers, no doubt) spots him and says, "Batman has become some sort of chemical monstrosity!" Sheesh.... I see why they made THAT guy Commissioner. In any case, the cops open fire on him, but their bullets have no effect! Holy inpenetrability! Bat-Hulk: "I'm BAT-HULK! And there ain't nuthin' I can't take! I'm a chemical pheeenom! Ha! Ha! Haw! HAH!" Uhhh.... Not only did he become a Bat-Hulk, he lost his ability to speak in coherent sentences. He turns and waddles away into Gotham Park, where he shortly thereafter loses the cops and turns back into Batman. 
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 06:56 AM Post #12 |
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The Stagg security guards drag in the barely-conscious form of the Caped Crusader, and the denizens of Stagg Manor are suitably impressed.... Metamorpho: "Holy Blue Hannah! Old Cape-and-Cowl himself!" Simon Stagg: "Great Jasper! BATMAN!" Sapphire Stagg: "Oooh! I watch him every week on TV! He's so simply super-marv and fab!" |
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 07:03 AM Post #13 |
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Challenge for the day: say, "Don't get your molecules ruffled!" to somebody. Stagg examines Batman in his lab (without removing any of his bat-clothes, thankfully) and tells him, "The gas created residual embolisms in your blood, Batman, which suppress regular anti-body reaction." Metamorpho: "Blue blazes, Staggsy! In ten-cent lingo, what are you selling?" You would think some guy whose power is to control the elements in his body would be a little brighter when it came to stuff like this, but Metamorpho always struck me as being the dumbest of all superheroes. Stagg says he can't cure Batman, and that he will certainly become the Bat-Hulk again; Batman says, "My only hope is YOU, Element Man! Only YOU can control me in my BAT-HULK form... withour your great chemical powers!" Metamorpho is right in the middle of saying, "Aw, Staggsy's full o' shit, you'll never turn into that monster again" when... 
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 07:15 AM Post #14 |
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I used to watch Space Ghost, Frankenstein, Jr. & the Impossibles, and Superman. Didn't watch the rest of this crap, so NBC and ABC must've had better shows on at those particular time slots...
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| Laughing Gravy | Aug 1 2009, 07:26 AM Post #15 |
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Bat-Hulk and Metamorpho spend four full panels fighting; Bat-Hulk kicks the Element Man's elemental ass and hits and him with an elemental doppelganger, and then smashes right out through the lab window. 
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