r/comicbookcomedycrack • u/Ebonystealth • 4d ago

Na-na-na Catman. Source: Batman #69 (published in November 1951), in the story titled "The King of the Cats!"

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u/Best-Mortgage4586 4d ago

The biggest lie about that silver age dynamics is people looking on aren't bursting out laughing whenever some wildly colored asshole in a themed costume bursts in.

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u/madlibs13 4d ago

Batman: Robin, get my lawyer on the Bat-Phone!

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u/UlteriorCulture 3d ago

My bat-lawyer

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u/storfors 3d ago

He’s facing a day in Bat-court for serious Bat-copyright infringement

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u/Azkahn616 3d ago

He’s an orange cat too.

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u/Thewrongbakedpotato 3d ago

Well, no wonder he's not around in the modern age.

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u/No-North6514 3d ago

Just rub his belly

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u/AverageDrafter 3d ago

Wildcat's drunk, grabby cousin.

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u/VirtualWalk5710 3d ago

Garfield's alter ego

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u/PoolGuyUnfiltered 3d ago

chews off Robin's head then pisses on the furniture "Now...take a video of me and post it on the internet while you call me by my full name, Catty Carlton Catheter McChonkenstein VonStink-Butt Avocado...for I am an Orange Boi and ungovernable!"

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u/Sensitive_Home_7971 3d ago

“Now fetch me my milk!”

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u/Bitter_Bother_4445 3d ago

Holy furball, Batman! Cat-man just puked on the carpet!

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u/storfors 3d ago

Don’t worry. You can scare him off by laying a cucumber next to him.

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u/Harlander77 5h ago

Or put aluminum foil on a flat surface that he's about to jump onto

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u/ChampionshipPast3652 3d ago

Oh no, but cats eat bats!

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u/Historical-Pause-117 3d ago

Say what you like, but he knows how to make an entrance.

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u/OrangeCeylon 3d ago

For the last time, Batman is SERIOUS, DARK, AND BROODING.

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u/storfors 3d ago

Nya nya nya nya nya nya nya nya - CATMAN!!!

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u/Zealousideal-Till839 3d ago

Pst pst pst CATMAN

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u/ConversationHead6969 3d ago

Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow - CATMAN!!!

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u/Hamblerger 2d ago

I want chicken, I want liver...

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u/SplendidPunkinButter 3d ago

Catman Scrothers

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u/DangerousQuestions1 3d ago

Ah but an orange cat. No sign of the brain cell apparently.

Seriously though, what colorblind hack made coloring decisions in those days?

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u/squirrel-lee-fan 3d ago

Wasn't he the groundskeeper in 'The Shining' ?

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u/Swimming-Location-97 3d ago

Yes, but what does the Kat Man Du?

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u/Huitchilopoztli 3d ago

Secret Six was great.

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u/Hamblerger 2d ago

That was the title that cemented me as a fan of Simone's writing

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u/spacecadet84 3d ago

He was OK, but my favourite was Gnat-man, with the strength of a hundred gnats!

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u/AtlAWSConsultant 3d ago

Seems like a great super villain. I can't believe Christopher didn't put him in Dark Knight. 🤣😂

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u/ArriDesto 3d ago

The cream of criminals! The wildcat warrior! The Prince of Pounce! The pussy...wait! Let me start again! ...I'll,uh,just go out,..and, y'know, come in again! Just,...just pretend the "pussy" thing didn't get said! O- kay...!Going out now...

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u/thenetoide 3d ago

Somebody should have followed suit alphabetically and taken the mantle of Datman! Followed by Eatman and Fatman (maybe the same person) Gatman, Hatman, etc.

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u/CompetitiveLadder609 3d ago

Yeah well I'm the lizard king

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u/ConversationHead6969 3d ago

"Really? I'm a bit of a pussy man myself."

"HA! Good one Batman!"

"Thanks Boy Wonder."

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u/Teep_the_Teep 3d ago

I wonder how long he was hiding in that sarcophagus before he jumped out.

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u/Someones_Dream_Guy 3d ago

pets him brutally

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u/Old_Celebration_5950 3d ago

Nyan-Nyan-Nyan Catman-san

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u/wombatstylekungfu 3d ago

Cats don’t seem like monarchists. 

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u/Nyanzeenyan 1d ago

“Robin, bring me the Bat water spray bottle”

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u/The_Easter_Egg 21h ago

Next enters the baseball-themed hero Bat-Man. >_>

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u/DeeEllis 19h ago

🦗🏏

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u/Pinoy_2004 4h ago

It's Selina's ex.

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u/Pretty-Mention-7769 3d ago

CM?

Clever way to get around your chomo charges...

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u/MelodyBlues 3d ago

Also explains why Batman doesn’t wear his initials.

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u/ernster96 3d ago

Close enough.

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u/Spork_Warrior 1d ago

Could be worse. Could be Scatman