Sunday, October 14, 2012

Bold Fashion Choices--Stylish Swiss Bankers!!

A computer hacker has stolen ALL of Wayne Enterprises' money AND all of the funds of the Ivy University Physics Department.

Pretty bad choices, there.

So Bruce Wayne and Ray Palmer fly to Switzerland to investigate...but:

OK, so it's an evil Swiss bank...go figure. Therefore, Batman and Atom are perfectly justified in breaking in at night...where they find:

They keep their computer in the vault, with the gold bars and bags of money? Sure, why not?

But the most important revelation is:


Yes. That is precisely how criminal Swiss bankers dress.

At least for once, a DC cover wasn't lying to us:

The evil-Swiss-bankers-who-dress-in-comically-stereotyped-ethnic-clothing try to kill our heroes. But c'mon...you can't take them seriously dressed in Lederhosen. And our heroes certainly don't:




The moral? Unless you're in a gang of henchmen in the 1966 Batman TV show, don't dress like that!!

From Brave And The Bold #152 (1979)
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5 comments:

  1. SallyPOctober 14, 2012 at 5:18 PM

    As a former banker...let me tell you that once the doors are locked and the customers have gone...that's EXACTLY what we used to do!

    Now... I must go look for my lederhosen.

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  2. Martin GrayOctober 15, 2012 at 9:25 AM

    That story is just cuckoo.

    Now, where's that golden crab?

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  3. Martin GrayOctober 15, 2012 at 9:25 AM

    That story is just cuckoo.

    Now, where's that golden crab?

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  4. snellOctober 15, 2012 at 10:36 PM

    No, no, Martin--It's Golden GRAB, not Golden CRAB....

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  5. AnonymousOctober 17, 2012 at 9:13 AM

    Comic book writers and artists do research on Europe by watching 1930's Universal horror movies. And from those, we learn that everyone east of France wears lederhosen and speaks English with a German accent.

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