09.25.2010
Secret Panel (9)
By: Jason Grote | Categories:
Haw-Haw
Ninth in a series of twelve posts celebrating our favorite Silver Age comic double entendres.

Sheldon Moldoff’s cover for Detective Comics #241 (March 1957) predates the LGBT movement’s use of the rainbow flag by a good twenty years, but still. Batman’s repeated use of the word must makes this one for me.

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BONUS: from a different issue.

Jason Grote is a playwright, television writer, and librettist. His best-known play is 1001, a deconstruction of the tales of the Arabian Nights. He wrote for season one of Smash, and is currently a writer for Mad Men.
That outfit is pink, not red.
Maybe Robin is color blind.
I MUST have one of those pink outfits! Where can I get one?
It’s even funnier if you read the “I must wear…” as though Batman means “I’m not entirely sure, but I’ll bet I wear…”