I take as the title of this blog a line from a comic book - Batman #117, in which Batman and Robin join forces with an alien cop on an intergalactic manhunt for an alien/human duo who are planning a combined life of crime. When the three crime fighters land on the planet where their quarry has chosen to hide out, they find it much like Earth, except that all of the fruit on the trees is a hundred times normal size. The bad guys hide out in the trees and throw giant fruit at our heroes, including, as an excerpt will shortly prove, a brace of giant bananas.
Published in 1958, this comic book's scant 20-some pages have provided many laughs, and quite a few questions about the thoughts that ran through the minds of its creators. I am a big fan of the 1966 silly-fest that was the original Batman movie, and I know the whole thing was supposed to be tongue in cheek, but nothing displayed in that movie, or the TV show with Adam West, can compare to the outright goofiness of this comic book.
I love picking these things apart and hope to dissect many more before too long. Stay tuned.
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