Announcement: "The Daily Batman!" Discovery: another lost Two-Face story! Reaction: ARGLE BARGLE!

[about_faces]

So as a side project, I've started "The Daily Batman" (or "Batman_Daily," I can't decide which I prefer), a Tumblr blog where I can post the '89-'91 Batman comic strips as they originally ran: one per day, with the Sundays on Sundays

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[psychopathicus]

I tell ya, while I haven't read much early Killer Moth, all signs seem to point to him being a semi-respectable Bat-villain for quite some time before they decided to turn him into a joke. Remember, just about all the older Bat-villains have been shown as kinda goofy at one time or another, and they were still taken seriously - why not Killer Moth? Why, I ask you?
Anyway, if you do wind up going to Washington DC to look those up, I'd certainly be interested in reading them.

[maridee42]

moths. the quiet killers.

[psychopathicus]

They're not without precedent in these matters. I know of at least one old B-movie with a killer were-moth in it (alas, the name escapes me - I think it's an old Hammer Horror film), and recently we've gotten The Moth Diaries, which is about vampires.

[abqreviews]

1968's "The Blood-Beast Terror" is what you're thinking about, and it's a Tigon film. Peter Cushing said it was one of the worst films he ever made, next to 'Star Wars'.

[ext_768836]

Nice project. Very nice indeed!

[maridee42]

this sounds really great! looking forward to it.

[about_faces]

Ha, me too! COMING SOON... OR MAYBE NEVER.

[about_faces]

Oh wait, you mean the new blog, not the old strips! A-duh! Yes, thank you! I saw that you're following, thank you so much!

[maridee42]

Well, either or. Both? Yes?

In any case, it's all very exciting.

[abqreviews]

I love the idea of these strips being "holy grails". Let me know if you have to shoot any ethnic stereotypes and escape elaborately contrived obstacles in order to get them. It might be a good idea to bring a whip and a lead-lined fridge as well.

I'm not making fun, I can relate, as I had quite an adventure back in the 80s trying to find old Spirit sections from newspapers. Collecting strips is often harder than collecting comics.

[lego_joker]

I can see it now... Delaware Hefner and the Last Bat-tale!

The trademark weapon! The badass hat! The John Williams soundtrack! The Lego video game! The fourth film that's tacked on 20 years after the trilogy's end, rousing nerdrage across the nation even though it's not really that bad!

[about_faces]

Hey hey hey, now, I may live here nowadays, but I'm still a MD boy at heart! Call be MARYLAND HEFNER! ... Wait, no, that's worse...

[about_faces]

Those are always fun and awkward to spot!

Man, it still amazes me that the internet has become so ingrained in our society, and yet there's STILL no online newspaper archive that posts scans of the comics pages! None that I've found, anyway. And even if I do, there's no telling whether or not they'll have either of the Batman strips.

[mothy_van_cleer]

Seven miles down the river, and it's like staring into the mouth of Hell itself

[psychopathicus]

Crazy-ass 'Nam vet Killer Moth? Well, it's an original treatment of the character, I'll admit.

[about_faces]

Worst Elseworlds ever. Or possibly best. With Robert Duvall as Firefly!

[mothy_van_cleer]

Yeah, setting the rogues' gallery amidst the atrocities of wartime usually tends to rob their comparatively minor crimes of any dramatic tension. Patton Oswalt should've known better.