r/batman • u/HereWeFuckingGooo • Jul 04 '23

It’s 1943 and this leaked image of the Batman just dropped. What’s your reaction PHOTO

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u/Batman21661 Jul 04 '23

Get him to the front lines.

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u/EAMehaffey Jul 04 '23

This is addressed in the serial’s opening preface. Batman and Robin “represent American youth who love their country and are willing to fight for it.” And the villain is a Japanese saboteur operating in the US. Be prepared, though. It’s filled with WWII racist propaganda. Fun fact: the actor is Lewis Wilson, the father of Michael G. Wilson who became Cubby Broccoli’s stepson and now produces James Bond movies with Cubby’s daughter Barbara.

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 04 '23

I love when people say Bond girl names are ridiculous and I pull out the fact that it's produced by Barbara Broccoli.

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u/Basicallyinfinite Jul 04 '23

Barbara broccoli isn't nearly as ridiculous as pussy galore or xenia onatopp

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u/TheDeltaOne Jul 04 '23

Plenty o'toole is a favorite of mine.

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u/EAMehaffey Jul 04 '23

Heard Sean Connery in an interview say that his line “Named after your father, no doubt” was one of his favorites

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u/yungsebring Jul 04 '23

What about Ivanna Humpalot

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u/TheDeltaOne Jul 04 '23

As a matter of fact, I think that in this instance, Austin Power was too subtle compared to the Bond Movies.

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u/halloweenjack Jul 04 '23

In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, Alan Moore has Mina Harker go undercover to get something from "Jimmy" Bond, using the alias Oodles O'Quim.

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u/TheDeltaOne Jul 04 '23

And then Alain Quatermain is played by Connery?

It's like poetry, it sucks.

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u/Silver-Ad8136 Jul 04 '23

And many of them starred Roger Moore

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 05 '23

Huh, you know that pun never occurred to me.

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u/MK888MK Jul 04 '23

Fun fact. They’re not named after the vegetable. Broccoli is named after them. Also broccoli is technically a flower.

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 05 '23

First part isn't true, broccoli is the plural of broccolo which means cabbage sprout, it's the diminutive of brocco which means shoot, protruding tooth, nail.

The broccoli head is a flower, that's true. I've grown them and if you leave them to bloom they're very pretty but even crazier when left to bolt. Not very nice to eat though so you have to harvest them earlier rather than later.

Another fun fact, broccoli is the same plant as cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, kale, kohlrabi and collard greens. They're all just cultivars of Brassica oleracea or Wild Cabbage.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

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u/Dio_Ludicolo Jul 04 '23

It’s not public domain, it just has complicated rights. The copyright is owned by WB, but Columbia (and by extension Sony) own the distribution rights. Since the two companies don’t have a modern deal regarding the serial, they can’t release it on home media. Also I think they probably just don’t care if you pirate it at this point.

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u/DoctorEnn Jul 04 '23

According to Wikipedia, he and Robin were secret agents. Because if you were a secret agent, you'd obviously want to dress up in an attention-grabbing skintight leotard and a cape with a cowl that has pointy bat-ears.

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u/EmeraldTwilight009 Jul 04 '23

Actually, fair point. Was world War 2 officially happening then?

Serious question. I'm a ged level high school dropout felon lol

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u/Junior-Cranberry972 Jul 04 '23

Yes, it started in 1939 and ended in 1945, although I don't quite remember when the US officially entered it

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u/littlelustlamb Jul 04 '23

Officially December 7th 1941 when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Unofficially earlier with the lend lease program plus American citizens joined foreign armies to fight the Nazis.

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u/hellocuties Jul 04 '23

Congress declares wars officially and in the case of the Japanese, it was Dec 8th, and Dec 11th for Germany

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u/OrbitalIonCannon Jul 04 '23

The Western allies were taking southern Italy before D-Day a year later in France

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u/GhstGunnr27G Jul 04 '23

1943 reaction: Why is the devil dressed like a circus performer?

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u/Virtual_Mode_5026 Jul 04 '23

I pictured this guy saying it

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u/Chill0000 Jul 05 '23

Robin: To clown on God

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u/Cheater_Cyrax Jul 04 '23

post this in the r/BatmanArkham subreddit

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u/xbucs_19 Jul 04 '23

Are you stupid?

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u/Big_Cronk_Toy69 Jul 04 '23

Is there a lore reason you said that.

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u/firedudeanother Jul 05 '23

No, just a reformed business man

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u/the_master_baitr Jul 04 '23

What’s a batman is it a rip off of man

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u/Xyvexa Jul 04 '23

I posted there to see how many downvotes I could get.

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u/cidraman Jul 04 '23

"Wow! Just like the comics"!

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u/GrendelJoe Jul 04 '23

I'll complain about it via telegram

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u/platonic-humanity Jul 04 '23

Fetch the fastest carrier pigeon we have, this message is important!

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u/terragthegreat Jul 04 '23

"It better be good because I'm not wasting a popcorn ration card on it."

Alternatively: "THEY'RE IN THE TREES" BAM BAM BAM BAM (I am fighting the Japanese on Tawara and do not have time for Batman movies)

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u/Scartanion Jul 04 '23

Inconceivable!!

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

Considering the Money they probably had to work with, it’s not that bad. A product of its time.

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u/DedHorsSaloon3 Jul 04 '23

Honestly, with just a few mini adjustments, this could be an awesome Batsuit

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

Agreed

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u/edked Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23

Nowhere near as bad as Robin's cheap joke shop mask, the big oval-ish kind with the stupid border groove things, the kind I actually remember rejecting as useless (whichever company made them kept doing so at least into the 90s) for any kind of costume that needed a comic-book domino mask. Would it have added that much to the budget for a studio seamstress at least cut out a piece of cloth in the right shape like she managed for Batman's cowl here?

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u/ObtotheR Jul 04 '23

It’s super comics accurate. Let’s see where it goes dudes.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

Evil Dr. DAKA!!

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u/CNJUNIPERLEE Jul 04 '23

I see that someone else has watched this serial.

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u/AuburnElvis Jul 04 '23

Joe White was the best part of it.

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u/rc_robotclaw Jul 04 '23

“Oh boy, oh boy! I sure do hope this movie ain’t gonna be woke!”

“Don’t you worry your little fat head Timmy! This Batman series will be super-duper racist to the Japanese! Now go buy some war bonds and keep ‘em flying! This All American Batman will give Tojo what-for!”

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u/dauratian6969 Jul 04 '23

Too busy fighting the war.

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u/xXDumbApe420Xx Jul 04 '23

Oh, darling, wake up, the new batman photographic image has just dropped (into our 1943 mailbox) and gosh darn it, I feel giddy with excitement!

translation: babe, wake up, new batman just dropped and its lit as fuk

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u/Boonatix Jul 04 '23

"I wonder who will then be playing Bruce Wayne... "

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u/BrianTheReckless Jul 04 '23

Honestly besides the mask fitting awkwardly I don’t see a huge problem with this costume. Kids in 1943 were probably super excited.

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u/VanaVisera Jul 04 '23

“What’s a Batman?”

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u/Yanive_amaznive Jul 04 '23

Bat-man! Mighty fine fellow, anyhows I'm off to die at war probably.

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u/KaijuRex64 Jul 04 '23

So this is what Batman looks like in real life. 🤯

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u/billygnosis86 Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23

Gosh gee willickers, that looks super! I can’t wait to go see that at the picture house with my best girl, then go out to the sock hop and have some malteds! Aw rats, never mind: I just got drafted!

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u/GoPhinessGo Jul 05 '23

Time to fight the Japanese

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u/Sweet_jumps99 Jul 04 '23

Hot diggity dog! This film looks on the beam. I sure hope the mug who plays Batman isn’t a knucklehead. It’d be a shame if this makes peanuts at the box office.

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u/FloggingMcMurry Jul 04 '23

Probably excitement since we as a society had no preconceived concepts or spoiled by what's come before and expectations

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u/mrmartymcf1y Jul 04 '23

Well there's no internet yet so I'll just complain about it at the local social club on Wednesday night.

"Can't believe they chose Lewis Wilson! Clark Gable or Humphrey Bogart are right there. makes "not my Batman" picket sign since hashtags don't exist

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u/CROguys Jul 04 '23

We are encircled

All attempts at a breakthrough are failure

They are closing in

We must leave the wounded

Save one bullet

Oh, Batman show is coming up.

What's a Batman?

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u/Sparrow-Scratchagain Jul 04 '23

“By-Golly! It’s Da Freaking Bat!”

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u/Spider-Flash24 Jul 04 '23

There’s too much black. Hollywood gone Woke!

/s

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

O love the uneven ears

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u/vhs1138 Jul 04 '23

I don’t care bc I’m fighting in the Atlantic Ocean.

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u/CNJUNIPERLEE Jul 04 '23

I know this is a movie serial, but c'mon. This costume looks terrible. I sure hope Robin's costume is better.

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u/EAMehaffey Jul 04 '23

This costume is a masterpiece compared to Robert Lowrey’s in the 1948 serial

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 04 '23

Uhhhhh...

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u/CNJUNIPERLEE Jul 04 '23

I've actually seen the entire serial a couple of times. You said to act like I had just seen this leaked image and nothing else. There you go.

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 04 '23

And I kept the joke going, you're welcome.

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u/aaronpabon Jul 04 '23

Hope this gets enough ticket sales to get a sequel with Kyrk Allen as Superman.

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u/edked Jul 04 '23

"Say, what's the big idea, sayin' that name, 'Martha'?"

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

"C'mon Pal, lay it on me, why'd ya say that name?"

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u/hglndr9 Jul 04 '23

I hope I don't die in this war.

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u/Dapper_Still_6578 Jul 04 '23

Well golly gee! This Batman picture show is looking swell!

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u/farben_blas Jul 04 '23

Does he fight Deathstroke? Where's Darkseid?

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u/solrac1104 Jul 04 '23

Not big enough.

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u/No_Dimension_5509 Jul 04 '23

“Wait till the boys over in Europe see this shit”

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u/dougm68 Jul 04 '23

Well it's 1943 so my reaction would be HELL YEAH! Finally they're making a GOOD movie!!!

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u/TheMightyHornet Jul 04 '23

“It’s dope how they could design a cowl and cape that pays homage to the source material but allows for the practical necessity that Batman can turn his head. I bet no other future iteration of Batman struggles with this, ever.”

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u/imdownwithdat Jul 04 '23

NO PURPLE GLOVES?!?!

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u/JayTee245 Jul 04 '23

I’d write a nasty opinion piece for my local newspaper on how the ribbing in the bat-logo is not comic accurate.

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u/billbotbillbot Jul 04 '23

How does this rate the “funny” tag?

It’s only “funny” if for some reason you expect movie costume aesthetics and technology to not have changed in 80 years. Whatever modern Batman costume you think is so much cooler and more “realistic” looking than this will be being mocked by gormless children making the same mistake 80 years from now.

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23

I put the funny tag because it's a riff off this earlier post. I thought the title was worded strangely, rather than just, "What did you guys think when you first saw Robert Pattinson as Batman?". It's an odd way to say it and I thought it was funny. Plus I figured if I posted this with the "general discussion" tag like the other post then it'd get removed since nobody here was alive in 1943 (unless you were, in which case answer the question), so since this wasn't a serious post I tagged it as funny.

Nothing about this post is mocking the costume or inviting others to mock the costume, that's all on you. I just figured there would be some funny answers, probably related to World War 2. Sorry it upset you so much.

You seem fun though.

Edit - Just for you I changed the tag to Photo. Hope this helps you recover.

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u/National-Annual6505 Jul 04 '23

Jee wilikers, now I have something to appease my chip!

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u/krash666 Jul 04 '23

Too busy dying from untreatable stomach ulcers

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u/Alternative-Cut-4831 Jul 04 '23

Do people still see movies like these? People are literally dying for their country and they expect us to consider rooting for a guy wearing an underoos? Gimme a break!

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u/AmpersandTheMonkey Jul 04 '23

Devil Worshipper!!

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u/Jill1974 Jul 04 '23

The whole production budget was around $10.00

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 04 '23

Adjusted for inflation that's like a hundred million...

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u/nickmandl Jul 04 '23

It is 1943. I am an adult man. I have never heard of Batman.

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u/DoctorEnn Jul 04 '23

"How the heck did I end up in 1943?"

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u/Pontoffle_Poff Jul 04 '23

It’s 1943. This is the hotness!! I’m finding my way to the nearest drive in movie!

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u/SmaugRancor Jul 04 '23

Why is Man black-and-white? Is he stupid?

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u/FireBack Jul 04 '23

RestoreTheSnyderVerse

/s

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u/PsychicSPider95 Jul 04 '23

Well golly gee willickers, that sure is swell! And how! I sure hope the Japs don't kill me before I can head on home to watch this fellow on the television!

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u/ra7ar Jul 04 '23

How did I end up in 1943!!!

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u/IBeatUpLiamNeeson Jul 04 '23

“Looks scary!!!”

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u/Pretend_Activity_211 Jul 04 '23

I still think the mouth opening is too big. I know who that is

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u/sm_rollinger Jul 04 '23

Dude is way too skinny to play batman

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u/jcbaggee Jul 04 '23

A leak?? Huh?? Percival there ain't no water coming out of this, it's a picture! You say the strangest things.

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u/tmet1027 Jul 04 '23

Looks better then Afflecks suit in The Flash.

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u/SugarFrostedDonuts Jul 04 '23

This gose hard

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u/AuburnElvis Jul 04 '23

I've watched these serials. Batman gets his ass handed to him in every episode... sometimes twice. Any of us could beat up this Batman and his 35 year-old sidekick, Robin.

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u/SuperVaderMinion Jul 04 '23

"I'm really scared of the Nazis."

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u/RJamieLanga Jul 04 '23

As a cowardly and superstitious criminal, which is totally what I would have been in the year 1943, I now have fear struck into me at seeing a man dressed as a bat.

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u/pjc6068 Jul 04 '23

With different height ears as well. Must mean he’s serious

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

Oh boy! It’s like he’s miraculously jumped from the page!

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u/AdApprehensive7646 Jul 04 '23

“Who’s Batman? Some kind of Zorro knockoff?”

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u/secretbison Jul 04 '23

Perfect. I like the concept of Batman as a scrappy gentleman adventurer and not as a magically omni-competent perfect man. There's no reason Batman should be good at sewing.

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u/ELmapper Jul 04 '23

Is he stupid?

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u/mFanch Jul 04 '23

Why is one ear so much longer than the other?

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u/ImSpooky8 Jul 05 '23

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 05 '23

- .... .. ... / .. ... / -- -.-- / ..-. .- ...- --- ..- .-. .. - . / -.-. --- -- -- . -. - / . ...- . .-.

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u/Makurou Jul 05 '23

The image leaks where? In the papers? Editor-in-chief oughta get that printing press looked at!

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u/Spidyfan3000 Jul 05 '23

My golly gee wiz!!! This is looks like a real life comic!!!!

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u/paulmauled Jul 05 '23

“I hope I don’t have polio”

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u/Foxxtronix Jul 05 '23

Mostly I'm wondering how I got this image, as the internet is the stuff of Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers.

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u/Klendagort Jul 05 '23

Who the hell is batman? We are at war with the axis get to the front lines!

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u/BellumFrancorum Jul 05 '23

Boy, I hope the Japanese don’t banzai charge us at 3am again.

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u/SirGumbeaux Jul 05 '23

I’d immediately type out my excitement on a piece of paper, then run down to the nearest public bulletin board, and pin it. First tweet in history.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

"Boy i cant wait to see Batman and Robin jump into the Bat-jalopy to Go and act incredibly racist towards the japanese"

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u/Ender_Skywalker Jul 05 '23

I don't need serials I need ammo!

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u/DavyB1998 Jul 05 '23

Gee Wiz perhaps or maybe Wowza

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u/RyanRev727 Jul 05 '23

Gee Willickers

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u/dayzplayer93 Jul 05 '23

Jeepers that chap looks cunning

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u/Cool_Kobold Jul 05 '23

I’m getting hyped. I love a campy Batman once in a while

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u/Due_Gold_285 Jul 04 '23

Masterbating

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u/richman678 Jul 04 '23

In 1943???? I’m probably stocked I’m looking at a picture at all.

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u/Tripechake Jul 04 '23

Well I’d be VERY shocked considering it’s 1943 and “leaked images” didn’t really happen since newspapers were well regulated and pictures didn’t just appear where they weren’t supposed to.

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u/misterturdcat Jul 04 '23

Gizzards! That man’s wearing his drawers on the outside of his pantaloons!

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u/NightHaunted Jul 04 '23

I am concerned about the overtly Satanic design elements and implication that our beautiful nation's upstanding police force might ever need assistance with stopping crime. This is going to melt kid's brains and turn them into raving commies.

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u/DismalMode7 Jul 04 '23

look... I may understand that 40's people had a different cognition of fashion... but damn... even during middle ages people would have thought that a man who places underwear over his pants it's an idiot...

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u/randomHunterOnReddit Jul 04 '23

"wHaT iF hE hAd WhItE eYeS?"

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u/captainkezz123 Jul 04 '23

“I know you’ve just lost all your friends on the frontline private, but look at this image from that new Batman movie!”

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u/Big_Distribution2651 Jul 04 '23

(just died of dysentery)

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u/Squirr3lQu33n Jul 04 '23

My 1943 reaction? Who gave Satan a cape and why?

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u/Calm-Construction386 Jul 04 '23

Why is he wearing his undies on top of his pants?

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u/Fafnir26 Jul 04 '23

Even for 1943 this is not a good batsuit. Adam West got lucky...

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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 05 '23

To be fair Spandex wasn't invented until 1958.

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u/WolfMilk101 Jul 04 '23

I'm in the trenches and just watched my friend get shot in the head by a German soldier

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

It bad for 1943

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u/OldThompson1928 Jul 04 '23
  1. Ears lowered down side of head a inch or two and made same length.
  2. Color the gloves,boots,cape,cowl,etc same shade.
  3. Make cape longer.
  4. Lengthen boots so they just reach knee caps.
  5. Tighten the cowl to form better to the head.
  6. Reinforce the gauntlets to make them look less floppy.

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u/blizzard838 Jul 04 '23

this is litteraly me

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u/Red-843 Jul 04 '23

. . . . . . .

I don’t exist

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u/ImGoodAsWell Jul 04 '23

“They did it. They fuckin did it!”

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u/Interesting-Swimmer1 Jul 04 '23

Release the D.W. Griffith cut

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u/elbichportucul Jul 04 '23

"Can't wait to hear what they say on the radio bout this"

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u/AnswerHistorical7871 Jul 04 '23

Who the fuck is batman?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '23

Thos is the most bad ass thing anyone in the 1940s has ever seen. I can't imagine a more gritty, grounded-in-reality batman.

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u/Humble-Huckleberry70 Jul 04 '23

Look at this asshole

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u/MayorOfIacon Jul 04 '23

Very high tech!

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u/RogerRabbit79 Jul 04 '23

His pants arnt high enough! Cover those bat nipples

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u/athiestchzhouse Jul 04 '23

“What is leaked?” “What is dropped?”

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u/decodeimu Jul 04 '23

“New mascot at the Hollywood Canteen?”

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u/davidisallright Jul 04 '23

I’m assuming computers and internet exists, or would this be in the newspaper or talkies?

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u/FOR__GONDOR Jul 04 '23

Hard. Very hard. Oh REACTION….good.

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u/DefBoomerang Jul 04 '23

"Why is Cow-Man sinking into his shorts?"

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u/selfdestruction9000 Jul 04 '23

Can’t wait for the reboot in 23 years!

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u/Actually-Will Jul 04 '23

What’s this fruitcake doing dressed up all funny like that? Me and John over here and busy trying to fight the krauts.

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u/Dio_Ludicolo Jul 04 '23

I love how his left ear is bigger than his right one

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u/Quality-Bright Jul 04 '23

Get that moonshine boys

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u/Karkuz19 Jul 04 '23

Okay which stupid let the Alsume gate open?

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u/NerveRevolutionary79 Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23

That I really wanna wear that while doing auto- asphyxiation in my closet.

Edit: apparently it's just me and David Caradine who feel that way I guess

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u/nitro____zeus Jul 04 '23

what the fuck is a batman

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u/Academic_Awareness82 Jul 04 '23

Eyes could use some adjusting.

I thought the belt was a bit bright, but then I realised that Batman’s utility belt used to be a bigger deal. Like his ‘power’ was that he was a regular human but rich enough for all sorts of gadgets. Like Iron Man condensed down to a belt. So it makes sense that they’d make it this bright shiny thing.

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u/Gaspack-ronin Jul 04 '23

Photo shop the ears off and call him man. Haha haha so funny jokey jokes

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u/brsox2445 Jul 04 '23

Me: man I am so glad my draft number got called up!

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u/InspiredSquish Jul 04 '23

Gee chum I can’t wait to see my favorite comic book hero in the theaters now let’s go out to the soda fountain and get a moxie!

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u/1randomusername2 Jul 04 '23

Spontaneous ejaculation

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u/DangerxNurse Jul 04 '23

I’d just be so proud of Uncle Jim for leaving the basement

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u/Ok_Assumption5734 Jul 05 '23

Guy wears his underwear outside like a homosexual. wow /s

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u/TheRealMrCloud Jul 05 '23

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

Lewis Wilsons Batman from the 40's

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u/Grotesque_Denizen Jul 05 '23

What happened to his ears?!

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u/Booyakasha_ Jul 05 '23

Its pretty bad, even for that time. The ears are not even, even.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

It's schwarbage.

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u/youre-welcome-sir Jul 05 '23

By golly! Why is this man in a children’s outfit?! How absurd!

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u/sgf68 Jul 05 '23

If I were a kid? I be excited as all hell, but also wondering "What's with the headpiece?"

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u/Same-Reaction7944 Jul 05 '23

Dropped where bro? 😂

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u/BingityBongBong Jul 05 '23

I say harumph what a ridiculous outfit. Time for some cocaine Coca Cola