There ’s been no shortage of misleading , ill - conceive Batman ephemeron roil out throughout history , but Leonard Goldstein ’s 1966 blue gag book It ’s playfulness To Be A Batman best all the other Bat - dirt out there .
This novelty tome consists of two things : 1 . ) photos of hoi polloi with hurriedly doodled Batman cowls superimpose over them ; and 2 . ) joke so confusing and rearwards they make that1979 “ Ghetto Man ” Justice League comedy roastlook like the watershed mo in American race relations since Brown v. Board of Education .
Let ’s begin with the cover . Batman ’s pie - hole is lock in an oxygen - starved rictus grin . This is a vague promise of jollity , as the reader will soon be mortally roll with laugh .
This is a picture ofa real murder scene . This is also the 2d joke of the Bible .
In It ’s Fun To Be A Batman , there are multiple scenes of Batman and Robin on the brink of relation . In case the subtext is lost on you , here ’s a decoded transformation :
BATMAN : I can not stop criminals because I am going to wage in sexual intercourse with this womanhood . Once I have climaxed expeditiously , I will resume my responsibility as an honorary Gotham City magistrate forthwith .
ROBIN : IIIIIII’M OOOOOOLD .
Batman ’s car runs on bullshit . This is not border as a joke , just an expressionless program line of fact .
WOMAN : This unintended simulacrum of sexual relation tires me , Batman . Please cease this innuendo so we can continue miming an improperly overdress binge of pigskin in this abandoned factory .
For It ’s Fun To Be A Batman , the publishing firm allotted Leonard Goldstein a boxful of markers and a sight of previous newspapers . ( Those newspapers that were left over were his defrayment . )
BATMAN : apology . I was incognizant that Robin ’s intimate appetites were as rich as they were sadomasochistically depraved .
It ’s getting hard to tell if some of these lick lines are bottom - rung Borscht Belt wit or unacknowledged comic book canon .
Before the cyberspace , solitary horndogs everywhere were ram to pleasure themselves to Batman freshness script . There ’s your daily sociological nugget type O ’ wisdom .
BATMAN : Thank you for allowing me to visually inspect your genitals , madam . deplorably , my vow of superhero celibacy keep me 100 % unfamiliar with all prospect of human shape . I lavish with my eyes closed .
This is barely a jest , so I ’m just going to assume people of the Sixties regularly masturbated to playing cards as well .
Is this an formally licensed Bat - product ? If so , DC Comics has some ‘ splaining to do .
Aaand I call back we ’re done here . Here ’s the weaponize anti - humor ofIt ’s merriment To Be A Batmanin full , good manners of Mark Anderson .
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