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blorb-el · 1 year ago

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so apparently. dc editorial/carmine infantino decided bruce wayne was gay. in the early 1970s. and then every single bronze age writer proceeded to ignore it. no one actually followed through. if elliot s! maggin's recollection from 40 years later is accurate.

“No you don’t understand, Elliot,” Archie interrupted me. “This morning Bruce Wayne was a millionaire playboy who wasn’t gay, but now he is gay.” “Really?” I said. “Yeah,” Julie said. “So from now on Bruce Wayne is gay, until further notice.”

#bruce wayne #im hollering. discoveries you can only make at 1:45am on a monday while looking for something else. im. this is surreal.#'until further notice' well no further notice was given!!!! so!!!!!!!! thanks julie!!!!!!!!! taking this and running with it!!!!#they targeted him with the engayification rainbow beam but he did a batman and juked it. sad!#the truly fascinating thing here is that this was in an effort to differentiate the batman and bruce wayne personas #so in making bruce wayne gay...would that mean that they were going to make batman straight. in what world #well. gay bruce persona + straight batman i think = bisexual bruce. love wins. (i am bisexual i can make that joke)#thank you es!m for writing the best superman stories and also revealing this in the backwater nook of quora. truly he keeps on giving #'no one followed through' actually doug followed through in wf289 but the people aren't ready for that conversation

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