Thursday, February 23, 2017

Bring on the Bad Guys: King of the Giants

Real name: None
A.K.A.: none
First Appearance: Detective Comics I#44 (October 1940)
Abilities:  Giants
Weapons: Giant sized everything
Quotes: "Pepper! Oh my eyes!"
Worst Act: Being a cop-out
Created by: Bill Finger (writer) and Bob Kane (artist-credited), Jerry Robinson/George Roussos(inks)

I suppose one can forgive a copout. Batman had only been around for little over a year at this point, but the 'it was all a dream' was getting a little old even by 1940.

Basically Robin is reading a book on dwarves and giants. He starts to nod off when Batman arrives and whisks him off to a mad scientist who sends the two of them into the fourth dimension. Captured by a giant, they end up in a massive war between the giants and the dwarves. It looks like curtains for the caped crusaders when Robin wakes up.

Not the best yarn, but I suppose that can be forgiven given the time period.

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