I better keep a close eye on him actually...
The comic opens with Robin giving a speech at the triweekly meeting of the Gotham Chamber of Currency! We all go to those kinds of meetings right??? He finishes his speech by saying 'don't be uptight! Literacy is what's happening baby and it's a gas!'
Now, knowing the camp 60's series as I do I expected the meeting to be ambushed with knockout gas at that point (as if that meeting wouldn't put you to sleep anyway) but I was wrong. Instead they applaud Robin and Bruce Wayne gives him a pat on the back.
Just when things seem to be going well and Bruce offers Robin a check for the literacy charity, who should enter and let of a smoke bomb but Bookworm! So I wasn't too far off with the gas! Of course Robin let's out his famous phrase- 'Holy' followed by 'smoke'!
Typical 60's Batman for you right there!
The smoke actually came from a trick hat which he probably borrowed from the Mad Hatter. A fight ensures with Robin while Bruce watches from the sidelines. He eventually has his lights knocked out from an uppercut and Bookworm steals Bruce's giant checkbook (of course) and leaves.
Oh and two of his henchmen are called Endpaper and Bookplate and their hideout is in an old, abandoned, Gotham school Book depository! Make it obvious why don't they?
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| 60's Bookworm |
Batman appears on TV to announce that all oversized check payments have been cancelled until he retrieves the checkbook and Bookworm flies into a fit of rage because Batman's outsmarted him right? Wrong! He's annoyed because one of his henchmen are watching TV when they could be reading books! Sounds like your parents when you were a kid right?
Bookworm then reveals his masterpiece. His Batcyclopedia that he's been busy working on containing every piece of information he could find on Batman so he will know his moves before he does.
Meanwhile Batman and Robin are listening to Bookworm's plan as Robin managed to replace a radio in Bookworm's hat for a different one in the earlier fight. However they don't hear all the plan as Bookworm discovers the radio as it was too loud and his batteries should have worn down...ha!
Batman isn't worried about the radio being destroyed but is that his secret identity could soon be discovered by Bookworm and his Batcyclopedia!
It ends there. I wish they were longer but part 2 is out on comixology Wednesday.
Another classic secret identity story. However the amount of times Batman & Robin have been in the clutches of the enemy are you telling me not one person thought to take a peek under the cowl?
However these are light hearted and fun compared to the dark and gloomy current age Batman stories. I enjoy both but will continue to read this series especially.
Might even start reading more books...
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