Real name: "Ding-Dong Daddy" Dowd
First appearance: Teen Titans I#3 (May-June 1966)
Abilities: Hep slang and mechanics baby!
Worst act: Attempted murder, theft, and convincing kids to drop out of school
Quote: "Coolest titans! Little Wonder Chick may have old Ding-Dong down for the count-but you laddios can't stop my gas pump pulverizer!"
Created by: Bob Haney (script), Nick Cardy (pencils/inks), and Stan Starkman (letters)
Man, if you thought the teenage caveman was odd, Haney topped himself with this one. Also tempted to have him as 22nd special but you'll have to wait until then.
We open with Batman dealing with a souped up hot rod busting through a jewelry store. The car manages to outrace the Batmobile, no mean feat that. Robin, now looking like an actual teenager, is summoned along with the rest of the Titans to Washington, DC.
The Dept. of Education has called the Titans there due to a serious problem-dropping out. The small burg of Harrison especially as a serious problem with kids dropping out of high school, so it is ordered that the Titans investigate.
The team arrives in their custom helicopter and check out where the teens have been going since they're not in school. None other than the shop of the Go-Man the Ding-Dong Daddy!
Not a drug reference shockingly enough. No, the Ding-Dong Daddy's deal is cars and fast ones too. He hires the kids right out of school and gives them paying jobs. Cars like the kind that robbed that store, eh? Naturally Ding-Dong is up to no good and the team manages to stop him
Utterly insane and wonderful. We have another team gets invited to solve a problem, but it just goes in such a direction you almost get whiplash. Ding-Dong is also such a delight you can almost ignore the utterly bizarre slang he spouts.
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