Japanese Batman

Batman: The Brave and the Bold is airing an anthology episode (tonight, I think) that includes nods to the Batboy and Rubin Mad Magazine parody, appearances from Scooby Doo and Weird Al, and this little gem ... which shows what a Batman and Robin cartoon might have looked like in Japan in the 1960s.

Batzman Meets the Green Horned Bee!

Here's a nice supplement to the Mad Magazine/Batman parody I posted a while back: Cracked's parody of Batman and the Green Hornet.  The art for this story appears to be by the great Marie Severin, but I could be mistaken.

I used to love Cracked as a kid, though popular opinion held that it was Mad's poor relative. Cracked really came into its own in the late 1980s when it became much more timely and relevant than its rivals.

Classic Mad Magazine BATMAN parody

Here ir is: the original Mad Magazine parody of the 1960s Batman TV show. Written and illustrated by Mort Drucker and Lou Silverstone, the plot shares a few important concepts with Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Strikes Again, for better or worse. Click the pics for larger images.