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25th May 07, 06:31 PM
#21
I use a clip of that book as my avatar on my Batman forum:
http://www.batmanytb.com/news.php
(Wages on there)
MacWage, "Dark Lord of the Box Pleat!"/ "Box Pleat Militant" Laird of Glenmoor (Carolina)
CARPE TARTANAM! (Seize the Tartan!)
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26th May 07, 10:20 PM
#22
to cool not to want for your own!
The Kilt is not a phase....IT'S A WAY OF LIFE!
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27th May 07, 05:37 AM
#23
I am a Dark Knight fan from wayyyyyy back. Lets just say I am old enough to have been an impressionable young lad when I watched the original series and the movies back in the 60's.
It was awesome to see that cover as I had no idea that it existed. I am definitely going to try to get a copy. I have a framed copy of the original Detective Comics #1, "The Batman" hanging in my office. It was an anniversary present from my wife many years ago.
Last edited by MACKAY; 27th May 07 at 10:31 AM.
"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried,
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot,
O'er the grave where our hero we buried."
- The Burial of Scotsmen Sir John Moore
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27th May 07, 09:09 AM
#24
Firstly, that is really cool! As a comic collector from way back, I would really like to have a copy of this issue.
I never knew about Mr. Wayne's Scottish ancestry. I don't normally think of "Wayne" as necessarily being Scottish, but as a researcher of Scottish names, it isn't ordinarily out of hand to think of it as having been Anglicized from something else (esp. as he is an American). The first name that comes to mind is the phonetically similar "Whan", which has been associated w/ the MacDonald and MacQueen families. Given that I don't take published sept lists as biblical truth, I don't find it out of the question to put a branch of this family in the sphere of MacLeod influence. Of course, this is speculation off the top of my head regarding a fictional character, so take it for what its worth.
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27th May 07, 11:12 AM
#25
When Bob Kane created Batman's alter ego, he used the inspiration of "Mad Anthony" Wayne and Robert the Bruce to create "Bruce Wayne."
In "Batman: The Scottish Connection" (a fairly recent small graphic novel, 1998) it is claimed that Bruce is descended from a crusader Scottish-Norman knight "Sir Gaweune De Weyne, knight of the Scottish court" and Clan MacDubh, on his mother's side.
Batman also goes to Scotland in "Legacy of the Bat" no. 54 (Sept. 96), as part of the "Legacy" story line.
Last edited by MacWage; 27th May 07 at 11:16 AM.
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MacWage, "Dark Lord of the Box Pleat!"/ "Box Pleat Militant" Laird of Glenmoor (Carolina)
CARPE TARTANAM! (Seize the Tartan!)
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27th May 07, 01:58 PM
#26
Nice one, I can't say I'd ever thought of Batman in a kilt though 21st century kilts produced a Superman Kilt.
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