Friday, February 22, 2008

Friday (K)night Fights: The Hero You're Dreaming Of

(from Batman #111, October 1957; by Edmond Hamilton, Sheldon Moldoff, and Stan Kaye)

Why is Batman wearing medieval plate armor (complete with bat-insignia) and punching lions in the face? To conceal the radiation-proof suit he's wearing underneath from the crooks he's pursuing.

It makes perfect sense to me. In fact, the sense of causality is positively lucid compared to other comic stories from that era.

Link Wray - Batman Theme (from Rumble! The Best of Link Wray, 1993) - It's those few, brief spoken word parts that really make this version outshine all others. (Well, that and Link Wray's exceptional guitar work.)

(Viva Bahlactus!)

5 comments:

sean witzke said...

Oh dude, thanks for the Link Wray.

Bahlactus said...

Kottam! That is hilarious! Nice punch, bruh. Bahlactus has spoken.

Rich said...

Even with that explanation, I'm still puzzled.

The whole 'Dark Knight' thing finally makes sense though.

Anonymous said...

I saw Link Wray do this on a horrible local dance show hosted by a wanna be DJ. Wray had a mask on and there was a guy with him dressed as Robin. It must have been one of his most embarassing moments. I can imagine how many cities he did it in.

bitterandrew said...

Wow. That's fascinating and really depressing all at once. 60's Bat-mania led to all sorts of bizarre scenarios, it seems.

It still sounds more dignified than Prince's "Batdance" video.