Fans of 60’s era DC comics will recognize the name Bob Haney. Bob Haney was a writer, usually on Brave and the Bold, which would team Batman up with a different partner each month.
Bob’s well-known for playing fast and loose with continuity. Even back then, when continuity wasn’t as obsessed over as it is now, Bob was still a maverick. If Batman needed a sister for that issue, he got one, even if she had never been seen before and never would again. Bob also had pretty unique ideas about science, and pretty interesting idea about the world (for example, apparently there’s enough robots - and disgruntled ones, at that - to form a Robot Rights group in Gotham, which holds regular meetings.) Such was Haney’s manipulation with the world, that many refer to an alternate “Earth-B”, the Earth where Bob Haney’s stories take place.
(Why not “Earth-H” for Haney? “Earth-H” is the Earth on which all those Hostess Fruit Pie Ads take place.)
So anyway, Haney penned one of the all-time greatest lines in comics history. I’ll let Grant Morrison, writer of Doom Patrol, JLA, The Invisibles, and The Filth, describe it to you:
Haney wrote my all-time favorite Batman line and it’s from the first panel of an old BRAVE AND THE BOLD team-up with the Teen Titans (“Rebel in the Streets,” I think). He’s got Batman walking down a Gotham City street in broad daylight [ed. note - IN COSTUME], spring sunshine. The Dark Knight’s taking it easy, checking out the pretty girls in miniskirts and the caption ends with the monumentally unforgettable line “yes, Batman digs this day!”
Let’s repeat that, for posterity: “Yes, Batman digs this day.”
A hundred head of my finest oxen will go to anyone who can produce a good quality scan of this panel. I have searched and searched and can’t find it anywhere. I SO want a copy of this.
Even if you can’t find it, enjoy this tidbit from one of the finest eras in comics history.