Bad Ideas

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Sensation Comics Number One. (January 1942, Detective Comics). Written by Gardner Fox with art by Howard Purcell.  "The queerest in all history".


In Animal Man #25 Grant Morrison has Animal Man encounter the Gay Ghost in Limbo, who explains that he does not want to return to Earth as the meaning of the word gay has changed.  I don't know about that, the term has been used since like, forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCymsoQL49c

Bringing Up Baby, 1938.

The above story has something to do with a monkey on a typewriter writing comic stories.  Ha ha!


Can you figure out the "Curse of Hathoreb"?  It must involve tailoring. This beggars description.
Fish in a fucking barrel, this is.


OMG.

While bad comics abound, D.C. has to be singled out for the worst superhero idea ever thought up:


Sweet dreams.

Comments

  1. AndibiMay 5, 2020 at 2:01 PM

    You have to love the Gay Ghost... He sees the good in every man!

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  2. Billy D BunnyJune 15, 2020 at 10:31 AM

    Poor guy. You wonder if maybe the writers were fed up with their editor, got drunk and left this story under his office door at 3 in the morning. The next day they are called to his office, expecting to be fired. "I love it" cries the editor. "Gimmee 32 pages by tonight"!
    Time for the grateful monkey dance.

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  3. AndibiJune 15, 2020 at 2:50 PM

    Ha ha! Yes -- there's always time for that...

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