Continuing with the whole “All superheroes should have moustaches” thing, here’s Batman, if Batman was a movie serial from the ’30s and ’40s. I would totally watch the heck out of that.
UPDATE: As pointed out by Dominowriting, there was a 1940s Batman serial (why did I not know this? Why?) – two of them, in fact. No moustaches though.
Batman WAS a movie serial in the 40s – two of them, in fact. No moustaches, though. And YouTube has the imaginary Orson Welles “Batman,” which is really great, though it also is facial hair-free.
@Dominowriting Wow. How did I not know this? Where have they been all my life.
That’s it. I have a lot of catching up to do now. Thanks! :D
That’s not Batman; that’s Zorro in disguise.
Batman IS Zorro in disguise :D
Oh, wow. :D
You call that a moustache? ~\~ Now that’s a mustache!
Hehe seriously staches need girth! Make it so!
I’ve seen the first ’40s Batman serial (at the ’30s-era theater, back when it ran a lot of old movies.) Which turned out to be useful when arguing with someone about the Japanese internment. One of my opponent’s claims was that no one knew Japanese Americans were being rounded up, so it wasn’t based on racism. As it so happens, that Batman serial is pretty damned racist, and refers directly to how Japantown in San Francisco was empty ever since “Uncle Sam wisely rounded up the slanty-eyed menace”.
You never lived during the Second World War. My father did, I did not. Screaming racism does not erase the fact that we were at war with another ethnic group.
The Batman serials were made during the War, so it’s natural that they would cast the Japanese as villains and potential spies. All you have to do is look up old Japanese propaganda films on how they saw us during the War.
Are you going to call them racist?
What, no nipples?
He’s wearing body armor, so you don’t have to have nipples.
I would like to enter Batman and Robin 1997 into evidence.
http://comicattack.net/2009/11/ffbatmanandrobin/
3rd paragraph & accompanying pictures
Do Zorro. :D