Batman has begun to worry that whoever stole the cameras has noticed his continues presence at televised events, and decides to draw them out with his next stunt. And, he shows up in emerald green at the dedication of a boat, only to spot some sabotage. Batman shows up at a fancy auction house in an orange costume that draws everyone’s attention to the point that the proprietors kindly ask him to leave, since now one’s paying attention to the wares. Batman and Robin arrive at the Gotham City airport when a famous movie star land, only for Batman to out-shine her in a glittery gold costume. Such as when the arrive to news that a truck full of explosives has caught fire in town, causing Batman to race onto the scene in a powder blue costume, before hopping into the flaming car and driving it off a pier before it could explode.Īnd, things just keep going from there. Batman and Robin begin appearing everywhere that cameras are present, and each time Batman’s wearing a different costume. The spend the entire event just looking around, checking all the cameramen, before leaving without any answers. Yep, Batman’s wearing a red costume! He and Robin showed up to this ticker-tape parade, ominously driving around in the Batmobile, while Batman sported a new look, drawing everyone’s eye. ![]() Bruce also decides to do something that remains unexplained until the last page of the issue. So, they decide to attend every televised event in Gotham for the foreseeable future, in order to catch them. The two reason that the men aren’t going to be able to sell the camera they stole, so they must be planning on using it as a prop so that they can pretend to be cameramen and steal something that’s going to be televised. But, when he gets home and tell Bruce all about it, Bruce says that he has a plan. Which is a bummer for Dick, because it turns out that those men had just stolen a new television camera, and he’d been hoping to identify men who stole it, since he got a good look at them before he had to jump out of the way. Some police officers and a doctor arrive, and Dick ends up becoming a big story, getting interviewed on the news for his heroics. Dick doesn’t have time to change into his Robin costume, so he just leaps towards the girl, saving her, and smashing his arm into a light pole in the process. This is spoiled when a car full of gangsters comes screaming down the street, barreling towards a small girl. The story begins in the streets of Gotham one afternoon while Dick Grayson is wandering around, minding his own business. I just had no idea that this was the plot that actually was attached to it. ![]() ![]() ![]() And this issue is one of the more famously weird covers of them all. That took the form of people laughing at the apparent dickishness of Superman for a while, but Batman took his fair share of mockery for the bizarre covers of the Golden Age. Comic covers from the Golden Age are often incredibly strange, and have been adopted by irony-loving people on the internet as perfect encapsulations of the weirdness of early comics, without any actual context. Or, one with a famous cover at the very least. Because, as you may be able to tell, we’re talking about a fairly famous issue of Detective Comics today. And we have an interesting story to talk about today, folks. Hello everyone, and welcome back to yet another installment of Bat Signal, my never ending quest to read every issue of Detective Comics, in random order, and with basically no context.
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