{"id":7665,"date":"2013-05-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/index.php\/2013\/05\/17\/batman-and-orange-hand\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T14:01:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T18:01:57","slug":"batman-and-orange-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plaidstallions.com\/reboot\/batman-and-orange-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman and the Orange Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Batman and the Orange Hand<\/h3>\n
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My friend Todd from Hake’s Americana <\/a>sent me this incredible bit of 1970s weirdness. It’s a UK promotional catalog where Batman solves a case inexplicably by buying a young boy some polyester pants and a few sweaters.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>
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\nNever has there ever been an item so fitting to what this website is about, it’s part Mall Appearance, part Fashion Mockery with a hint of Saturday morning thrown in, did I mention it’s also a touch creepy? You’ll honestly think I made this up.<\/span><\/strong>
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\nAfter the jump read the Orange Hand original story “Who’s out to Murder Batman?”<\/span><\/strong>
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\nClick on any image to enlarge nothing<\/span> odd about Batman appearing in a boy’s bedroom and promising to take him shopping, nope, nope, nope….<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nSo basically Batman has this kid gambling and hanging around criminals, criminals so dumb that a change of sweater (or jumper to our UK friends) makes them think it’s a different kid?\u00a0<\/span>
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\nDid Batman really need help with this gang?<\/span>
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\nDid Frank Miller write this?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Batman<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Is Batman flying in that last panel?\u00a0<\/span>
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\nI find this a really tenuous way to connect any sort of\u00a0Super heroics\u00a0to trying on freaking pants with your mom all Saturday afternoon.<\/span>
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\nAccording to this link Orange Hand stores only ran briefly in the early 1970s<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Batman and the orange hand.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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