r/Superdickery • u/DrJokerX • 5d ago
Now we know what REALLY happened to the other Robins…
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u/Achilles9609 5d ago
Tiger with a Batman-Head: "That would actually be me. Hugo Strange has replaced my head with that of a wild tiger."
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u/AdministrativeLeg14 5d ago
Robin knows, because there is absolutely no way he could guess ‘tiger’ from those weird-ass tracks if he weren’t already aware of the weird half-man creature.
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u/Practical_Ad_219 5d ago
Tigerman
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u/ialsohaveadobro 5d ago
I'm the king of the jungle
They call me... Tiger Man...
I'm gonna do The Bird...
If I can, if I can
I'd rather do the dog...
If your... pussy canHey, can your pussy do the dog?
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u/MrZJones 5d ago edited 5h ago
I feel like the cover is funning with us. I've read the first seven pages of this so far, and there's barely any signs of any animals at all, let alone Batman turning into one. What there is, however is...
Well, let's start in the middle, shall we? February 1969, "Jungle Jeopardy". Batman and Robin are zooming back to the Batcave, with an awful premonition that there's something wrong at Wayne Manor. They pull into the Batcave, hop in their secret elevator, realize they forgot to change outfits, and go right back down to the Batcave... where it's turned into a jungle, with plants and trees and elephants and tigers.
And we cut to the day before, where Batman is capturing a pair of crooks, while their getaway car abandons them so they're not caught, too. They go to a sewer for a meeting of all the local Gotham crime bosses, crooks, finks, and assorted ne'er-do-wells. One of them, named Brainwash (who looks like this), takes control of the conversation, saying they don't need to kill Batman and Robin, just... make them put themselves out of action. And he has a plan.
The next day, he visits commissioner Gordon at his office, and secretly plants a "sub-liminal thought-control bug" under his desk, which starts urging him to do something that night while he sleeps. At midnight, he bolts upright out of a sound sleep and calls Batman and Robin "The national bank's being robbed!". Two robbers pretend to be going underground to rob the bank, and while Batman and Robin are distracted, Brainwash plants another bug on the underside of the Batmobile, wiring it through the ignition.
Some of the "bank robbers" get away, so they hop in the Batmobile, but as soon as it starts, the subliminal message takes hold of them, and sends them back to the cave. "Must go home... Batcave! Go up in elevator, still wearing costumes!"
Which is where this story started.
So they go up in elevator, realize they're wearing costumes, go back down, see jungle and animals, go back up in elevator, see more jungle and a tiger (who is actually Alfred), and eventually stop the elevator in the middle to give them a moment to figure this out. Elsewhere, Brainwash assures his fellow criminals that this will drive them mad and they'll never bother anyone again.
But when Robin talks about the things he saw (specifically, an African elephant and the tiger), Batman realizes something is wrong (those two animals are from different continents!), and goes back down. He shuts off the Batmobile, and the illusion clears. He explains his deductions, and turns it back on for a brief moment, and now Batman and Robin see each other as tigers!
Batman recognizes the MO of their old enemy Mr. Esper, so he and Robin plug their ears to drown out the subliminal messages (since it'd take too long to disconnect the device), and they go back out and stop the bank robbery that Brainwash/Mr. Esper was running. Which they do, despite Mr. Esper's attempts to lock them in the vault.
And so it all ends anti-climactically, and nobody gets turned into a tiger. THE END.
Story/Cover accuracy: When the cover promises something that the story utterly fails to deliver, then these two scores become intertwined, and very low. 2/10 for both.
There isn't even a backup story to save the issue.
Some scans from this story: https://babblingsaboutdccomics4.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/batman-209-animals-in-the-batcave/
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u/Longjumping-Salad484 5d ago
in my best Naked Snake voice: "Tiger Batman?!"
he looks like he might be more of a menace than Zebra Batman--who is already a menace.
this is horrifying
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u/DrJokerX 5d ago
“Sure, but is it as scary as the 1950’s Godzilla? …Screw saving your game Snake, these B Movies ain’t gonna watch themselves!”
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u/Mad-farmer 5d ago
McFarlane did the lion-head Superman, so where is my tiger-headed Batman?
I want him now, Todd!!
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u/PlanetGhost 5d ago
Kelloggs Frosted Robins. They're GRRRRRATE!!!!!!