Happy Halloween, Batman!

What happens when the Joker decides greeting cards are the perfect way to commit crimes? Apparently, you get wedding-day disguises, stolen jewelry, a giant pumpkin coach, and bats equipped with searchlights.

This week on Bros, Foes, and Heroes, Zach and Mike travel back to Batman #46 (1948) for “Guileful Greetings,” also known as “The Joker Sends Regards!” It's a Golden Age Halloween adventure where the Joker turns rhyming greeting cards into a criminal master plan and Batman and Robin have to stop him before Gotham's Halloween festivities go completely off the rails.

Along the way, we ask some very important questions:

Why is the Joker so obsessed with greeting cards?

Why is the Joker stealing charity money with a vacuum cleaner?

Who thought giving bats tiny searchlights was a good idea?

And most importantly, why does Batman think somebody turning off the lights at a Halloween party is a reliable crime-fighting clue?

It's a delightfully ridiculous trip into classic Batman comics, complete with terrible rhymes, questionable disguises, and one very memorable Halloween showdown.

What's the strangest Batman story you've ever read? Let us know in the comments!

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Happy Halloween from Bros, Foes, and Heroes!

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Batman, werewolves, and vampires… oh my!

This week on Bros, Foes, and Heroes, we're traveling all the way back to 1939 for Detective Comics #31 and #32, featuring Batman's early supernatural adventure against one of his strangest foes: the Monk!

Before the Batcave, before Batman's modern no-killing rule, and before Gotham's Dark Knight became the hero we know today, the Caped Crusader was battling vampires, werewolves, hypnotism, and a whole lot of questionable decisions.

Join Zach and Mike as we revisit this two-part Golden Age Batman story and ask some very important questions:

Why is Batman so bad at keeping his fiancée safe?

Are these werewolves, vampires, or somehow both?

How does Batman's seemingly magical Batplane keep doing that?

Why is there a gorilla involved?

And just how do you make silver bullets with a candle?

It's classic Golden Age comic-book insanity, complete with bizarre plot twists, questionable science, and the kind of storytelling that makes reading old comics so much fun.

Have you read Batman's first encounter with the Monk? Let us know your favorite ridiculous Golden Age comic-book moment in the comments!

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Is DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke a true masterpiece, or just a gorgeous love letter to a bygone era?

In Part 1 of our multi-part deep dive, we examine the transition from the Golden Age to the Silver Age of DC Comics. We break down the haunting and heroic fates of The Losers on Dinosaur Island, the early days of Hal Jordan and Barry Allen, Martian Manhunter’s arrival on Earth, and an unforgettable moment where Wonder Woman completely shifts the paradigm in Indo-China.

Along the way, we somehow get completely sidetracked into an extensive discussion of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead, Bruce Campbell's best moments as Ash Williams, and whether or not any of us are related to Alexander Hamilton.

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