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the_lassiter (the_lassiter) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-11 10:21:00

Batman Year Zero
An alternate Batman career brought to you by JLA #37 (1965)

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	icon_uk 2009-10-11 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	Bwah-ha-ha! Love it! :) (Reply to this)

	mysteryfan 2009-10-11 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	Hee! Does Thunderbolt change everybody else in the JLA's career path, or just Batman's? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	btravage.livejournal.com 2009-10-11 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	This looks like Earth-2 Batman. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-10-11 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	He does have big ears, but it's Batman from his first appearance in 1939. The art's really dead-on. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	btravage.livejournal.com 2009-10-11 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	Isn't this how Earth-2 Batman started out? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-10-11 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm. I don't know, but it's definitely how regular Batman started out. Detective #27, almost the same exact panels. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-10-11 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	This is pre Crisis and has the Thunderbolt, which was unique to Earth-2, so yes, it would have to be. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rab62
2009-10-11 07:41 pm UTC (link)

But this story is about the Earth-One counterpart of Johnny Thunder, a petty crook who orders the Thunderbolt to go back in time and prevent the JLA from ever forming (see above) thereby creating a divergent Earth-One dubbed in the story as "Earth-A" -- which then gains evil counterparts of the JLA called the Lawless League.

The above was written from memory. My entire life has been a waste.

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	mysteryfan 2009-10-11 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	Oh. You don't mean 'Tec 27. You mean the JLA story? I've not read the JLA story. But here's the matching panel from Detective 27, with Regular, Earth 1 Batman. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sistermagpie 2009-10-11 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	I love this so much I want to buy it flowers. I mean, both panels. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-10-11 07:34 pm UTC (link)
	I know! Go "Bat-Man" !!! When not decking people as the "Bat-Man", Bruce Wayne smokes a pipe and is filled with put-upon ennui. It's terrific. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tacobob 2009-10-11 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	That is correct "Mystery-Fan". I shall read that "funny book" and then enjoy a delicious strawberry phosphate! Yum! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-10-11 10:55 pm UTC (link)
	That sounds delightful, "Taco-Bob". I shall do this same. After which I'll send a telegram to Constantinople. Or perhaps a letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	tacobob 2009-10-11 11:46 pm UTC (link)
	That sounds like a gay-time to have! Just as long as you do not involve your-self in any horse-play with those jackanapes! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-10-12 02:28 am UTC (link)
	I shall only involve my-self in horse-play for the cause of crime-fighting those rag-a-muffins! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lieut_kettch 2009-10-12 03:27 am UTC (link)
	Tut-tut. The Ottomans shan't like it if you continue to refer to their city as Constantinople. It behooves you to use its proper name, Istambul, lest we are assaulted by a mob of infuriated Asiatics! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-10-13 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Hee! Nice work, there! (Reply to this) (Parent)

(Anonymous)
2009-10-11 06:29 pm UTC (link)

He changes everyone's, as the Earth 1 Johnny Thunder (who's a 'hey youse mugs' type thug) told him to make sure the JLA never came to be.

One dissonance cited by other folks is that T-Bolt changes Krypton's core to inert lead, rather than the supercritical Uranium mass it was, meaning, Kal-El lives on a living Krypton with the other Kryptonians. So at the end of the story, 'setting things right' means the extinction of millions...

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	mysteryfan 2009-10-11 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	I was just reading about that story, with the extinction of millions. It was a discussion of like, 'Which hero's killed the most people'? Thanks for the info! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jkcarrier 2009-10-11 09:07 pm UTC (link)
	I suppose that's why they had Thunderbolt interfering with Batman's first case, rather than having him save the Waynes...in that case it would've been even more in-your-face obvious that "putting things right" = "killing innocents". (Reply to this) (Parent)

	fungo_squiggly 2009-10-11 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	Batman: "Ouch! People are hitting me! That's it, I'm done. My dead parents can suck it." (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-10-11 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah it's very much "Wait? People can hit BACK? Screw this lark!" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tacobob 2009-10-11 11:40 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, the good ol' days of being a super-hero. When you can fight evil by standing in place with your hands on your hips. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	darkknightjrk 2009-10-11 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	And we thought Deadpool was the first to manipulate the past in such a way. :O (Reply to this)

	freddylloyd 2009-10-11 06:51 pm UTC (link)
	Playboys are a cowardly and superstitious lot. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	tacobob 2009-10-11 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	WAAAAH! That Batman face on your avatar is HORRIBLE! I'm gonna go hide under my bed or chubby-faced Batman will eat me! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	freddylloyd 2009-10-12 01:36 am UTC (link)
	Wildly cheerful blue word balloons are a cowardly and superstitious lot. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	faythalie 2009-10-11 08:15 pm UTC (link)
	At first I read: "I'm going back to read Playboy." 0_O (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sianmink 2009-10-11 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	This is canon in my head now. (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-10-12 08:20 am UTC (link)

Being the nerd that I am, I can't help but nitpick here - this was not Batman's first case. It was his first APPEARANCE in actual comics, yes, but he had cases before that. For one thing, in the first panel of this story where idle pipe-smoking Bruce is talking to Commissioner Gordon, Gordon mentions how "this fellow they call the "Bat-Man" puzzles me!" That would seem to be a pretty clear implication that Batman has had at least one or two other cases already. Also, I'm pretty sure there was a later Sprang-era story talking about 'Batman's first case'.

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	the_lassiter 2009-10-12 02:19 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, we know this isn't his first case. That is what the Batman Year One (48 years later) story is all about. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-12 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	That's post-Crisis continuity; I'm talking pre-Crisis, when this was written. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lawrence_live 2009-10-12 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	Ahh, hey! I never noticed that! Yay nitpicking nerds! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-10-12 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	We make the world more complicated! Gloriously so! Disturbing yet magnificent! (Reply to this) (Parent)