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Personally, my favorite part about Batmankopf (no, I’m not kidding) was his fuzzy hat. 
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The fuzzy hat was AWESOME! Apparantly, the original designer had to fight tooth and nail to get the rest of the staff to agree for him to have the fuzzt hat.
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The fuzzy hat was AWESOME! Apparantly, the original designer had to fight tooth and nail to get the rest of the staff to agree for him to have the fuzzt hat.
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Why? IT makes so much sense, I mean its cold out there, its just batman being prepared for cold weather
So does anyone actually know why there’s a bat on the floor?
Well, in some heraldic traditions a bat is a symbol for vigilance. I don’t know if that’s true in Russia.
I seriously believe part of the reason was that they wanted a logo that would sell merhcandise.
Capitalists are a superstitious and cowardly lot . . .
This says bats are “Symbol of elite GRU Military Intelligence.” This says something similar. Apparently it has to do with being silent.
You can buy a T-shirt of the Russian bat…
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This says bats are “Symbol of elite GRU Military Intelligence.” This says something similar. Apparently it has to do with being silent.
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I’m sure Alexander Litvinenko would agree with the silent part.
What if Dick Tracy were a Commie?
There’s a cool but little-known AH book (connected short stories, not a novel), Back in the USSA, by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman: The U.S. has a Socialist revolution in 1917 and ends up becoming like the USSR in our timeline. At one point Buddy Holly is recounting how, as a kid, he listened to his favorite radio show: Dick Tracy of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Ideology). “I’ll settle your hash, revisionist scum!”
Never mind the second picture. I always thought the strap on ear defenders was supposed to go over the top of your head - what’s with the chinstrap thing Pootypoot has going on there? Although he is waving a pistol, which I suppose bestows a certain amount of latitude in sartorial matters.
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Anyone read Red Son? In it, Kal-El lands in the Ukraine rather than Kansas and grows up to become Stalin’s ultimate weapon.
Batman was a kid who saw his parents murdered by Stalin’s men, and becomes a rebel against Communist rule. Superman defeats him, but rebels keep popping up under the mantle of the Bat over and over again.
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I am the only one who remembers that '70s SNL skit where Kal-El’s ship lands in Germany?
“Ubermann Takes Stalingrad in 20 Minutes!”
“Ubermann Kills Every Person in England!”
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I can’t believe it took sixteen posts for that to come up. I’m actually ashamed of myself.
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I can’t believe we still haven’t been told: “Obvious Photoshop!”
