Happy 5th anniversary to us. We celebrated by reading a 1951 Batman comic that uses one specific word 37 times, and that word does not mean in 2026 what it meant in 1951.

This week marks five years of Bros, Foes & Heroes and for our anniversary story, Zach pulled "The Joker's Comedy of Errors" from Batman Issue 66 (August 1951). The plot: the Joker becomes a national headline after a botched robbery, and rather than lay low, he decides to recreate history's most famous mistakes. Military, architectural, aviation all as the basis for an entire crime spree. He researches them. He plans elaborate heists around them. The newspapers cover every single one with the same word in the headline, every time, for the entire issue. Zach explains why that word meant something completely different 75 years ago. Mike does not let it go for the rest of the episode.

The story itself involves a battleship run aground, a leaning bell tower built specifically to rob an oil tycoon, a Trojan horse used to smuggle a heist crew onto a movie set, and a directional beam that sends Batman to England by accident. Also: Bob Kane's actual headstone, which exists, and which the two of them read out loud.

Thank you for five years. Genuinely. We mean it!

Coming next week: Lobo, ahead of our Supergirl viewing.

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