A recent Batman comic has Batman tied up and hanging upside down. As he escapes he does an internal monologue about how to undo the knot in the rope. Today I grabbed a pair of my fancy shoes that I don’t wear often and they had a major knot. I was in a hurry but I remembered the text and kind of did what he said and sure enough I got the knot out.
I remember a Little Archie comic in which an adult charges at him and Archie (who I guess is ten) does a judo-like movie and redirects the adult’s momentum, throwing her to the ground. I did the exact same move to a guy in high school when he charged at me for some reason, slammed him across the lockers. I have no idea what precipitated this - I barely knew the guy and it wasn’t a rough school - but I’m reasonably proud of that moment.
When I was a kid and read Silver Age DC comics, I learned a lot from the one page things they had in them that had various scientific facts and what not on them.
It was my first exposure to a bunch of stuff that fascinates me still.
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 was referenced for some reason in a mid-1960s DC comic book (I think it was Batman, and that Robin said it), and it stuck in my head.
Years later, a teacher asked a question in class, to which that was the answer, and I gave it. I think she was impressed, and asked me what else I knew about the Battle. I knew nothing but the name and date.:o
It was actually just some stuff about how “the rope doesn’t want to be in the knot” and and if you push the rope it will work itself out so I sort did that and sure enough the knot came out. It was more about me not panicking because I was in a hurry at the time.
I’m not saying this makes me basically Robin but I’m not not saying that either.