Tag: bat-rope

Detective Comics #34 – Ben-Day Shots / TST

Okay, this is a really strange story. This is almost Silver Age weirdness level strange, except like all these early stories it’s really short, so you don’t get any explanations. So we’re going to do something special here – the first ‘episode’ of a relaunched version of Thunderian Science Theater.

I started it on my old Thundercats fansite, and those are pretty much gone (although I could put them back up). I started to relaunch it on Livejournal and only did a few, which are now borked because of Photobucket. So here’s take three:

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Ben-Day Shots – Detective Comics #29

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Detective Comics #29

1939 July, Golden Age
Cover Price: 10 cents

This one starts with a great cover. I wish I had a better version, or could find a nice large version, but it’s awesome. We’ll see what Photoshop magic can do. Unfortunately, Batman is still running around bare-handed. Bruce, you’re supposed to be smarter than that. (and YES, I will harp on that until it changes.) The cover has dropped the hyphen in his name too, which is nice, cuz it was annoying to type ‘the Bat-Man’ over and over again. Bats is sporting more of a wing than cape look, which is nifty, if completely impractical. And our mad scientist looks like he has pointy ears. Hm.

But onto to the content itself.

The Batman meets Doctor Death

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Commentary for Detective Comics #28 – Ben-Day Shots

Ben-Day Shots

Detective Comics #28

1939 June, Golden Age

Cover Price: 10 cents

Untitled Story (Frenchy & the Jewel Thieves)

Characters: Bruce Wayne / Batman (as ‘the Bat-Man’). First appearance of the Bat-rope (not called that).

CW: for ableist language as a nickname

I hope you’ll forgive me for the quality of the scans. Not my fault.

I love the intro for this.

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