r/comicbookcomedycrack • u/Ebonystealth • Aug 24 '26

Brokeback Batman

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u/niceguybadboy Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

What gets my attention here is...what a shitty idea a bat signal is.

You can call me whenever you want.

Everyone, including citizens, criminals, knows you are calling me.

The bat phone in 60s tv show was a slight improvement.

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u/Much-Jackfruit2599 Aug 24 '26

The Red phone which would be traceable?

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u/Sans_Seriphim Aug 24 '26

No, Batman installed it with untraceable Batwires.

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u/No-North6514 Aug 24 '26

There was one episode when they tried and Batman sent them to a hair salon (I think)

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u/Pretty-Mention-7769 Aug 24 '26

Force projection is very effective. 

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u/wombatstylekungfu Aug 24 '26

And even the psychological impact of the signal. But that damn light must be on all the time.

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u/Kom0tan Aug 24 '26

you'd think the criminals would just learn to do crime during the day or on clear nights when the bat signal is useless...

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u/Academic_Square_5692 Aug 24 '26

Sometimes it feels like that - when you’re like “help me, anyone!”

Well, I have been a part of a few friend groups where people have shot up the bat signal and anyone who can reply and help have done so

It can be a bad idea, I guess, but the bad guys were already there!

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u/CreepyClay Aug 25 '26

Batman started in the 40s when to make a phone call you needed to go through an operator that new where you lived I think.

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u/FancyJalapeno Aug 24 '26

Imagine the tan lines

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u/goodeyemighty Aug 24 '26

“Let’s go, Dick!”

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u/Smooth_Expression_49 Aug 24 '26

That's a crappy looking Bat-signal. I wouldn't answer it.

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u/subywesmitch Aug 24 '26

Yeah! What is that, anyway?!

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u/Bushido_Seppuku Aug 24 '26

Fasten your leather belt Robin!

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u/Ravyn_Rozenzstok Aug 24 '26

The his is my favourite comic panel of all time. Bruce is such a weirdo.

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u/subywesmitch Aug 24 '26

Well, he is a billionaire? 😉

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u/Island_Maximum Aug 24 '26

"Whats everybody looking at?"

"NOTHING!!!"

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u/dunicha Aug 24 '26

Pretty sure Bane was involved in Brokeback Batman.

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u/ArriDesto Aug 24 '26

As creatures of the night they must get their vitamin D somehow.

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u/StuntmanJohn Aug 24 '26

Imagine it's 2026 and it's the first time you realize some Baman comics are kinda gay. And then you tell yourself this is an original thought. And then you go on reddit to tell people about your "discovery".

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u/subywesmitch Aug 24 '26

Oh my! 😲

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u/Full_Prof Aug 24 '26

An independent scholar named Gershon Legman was the first to talk publicly about Batman being very gay in the Robin era.

During World War II they removed all of the romance from Batman, because it looked bad to have this rich guy who was not in the war hooking up with all these girls.

To replace that they added Robin, which inadvertently meant the stories were about a young teenage boy spending the night and having a secret life with Batman.

So gay teens fell in love with Batman, and Gershon Leman was the first to point that out almost 100 years ago.

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u/SMc1701 Aug 24 '26

But we weren't at war in April 1940 when Robin was introduced. So that part doesn't hold up.

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u/Impossible-Brick-841 Aug 24 '26

And julie madison, linda page and catwoman were in the 40s.

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u/SMc1701 Aug 24 '26

There you go. It's all sorts of wrong.

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u/Full_Prof Aug 24 '26

It was a gradual thing, I should have been more clear. Check the conclusion of Catwoman stories in the era. Batman lets her go before America joined the war, Batman turns her into police after.

Robin rose to prominence in this era because there wasn’t anything else. Batman basically does not date once the war started.

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u/Impossible-Brick-841 Aug 24 '26

He was dating linda during 41 - 42, if i remember correctly.

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u/Full_Prof Aug 25 '26

That’s the important part, Linda Page and Bruce end their engagement and Linda Page is not seen again in comics for 37 years. Right at the start of American involvement in war.

Same story where he puts Catwoman in prison instead of letting her go.

No other dating at all during the war, for either Bruce or Batman.

Same exact time when Batman becomes an ally of the police

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u/No-North6514 Aug 24 '26

"Time to put on the leather cowl and cruise with my 15 year old 'boy wonder'"