#Harriet cooper

[wanderingmind867]

Batman '66 had some of the best supporting characters, and I want them back in comics. In honour of Stafford Repp and Madge Blake, I would put Chief O'Hara and Aunt Harriet back in comics. Because seriously, they were good performers. Their characters were always fun. Aunt Harriet sort of comes off as oblivious (considering she never once suspects Bruce and Dick are Batman and Robin), but she's genuinely charming to see on screen. And Chief O'Hara is fun too. Him and Commissioner Gordon have the best chemistry together. And they both do come off as kind of inept, but they're so fun and sincere. So like .. I really wish these characters stayed in the media. They're great characters.

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June 1964. A month into Batman's "New Look" period, Alfred the butler is dramatically killed off in DETECTIVE COMICS #328. Writer Bill Finger gives Alfred a suitably heroic demise, sacrificing his life to save Batman and Robin from the Tri-State Gang.

Ouch. This is fairly grisly for Silver Age DC, and, more significantly, obviously intended to be final. (If you're going to seemingly kill off a character with the intent of bringing them back later, "crushed to death by tons of rock right in front of their closest friends" is probably not the way to go.)

Two points of interest here: First, the Alfred Foundation, as will be explained later, is the antecedent of what later became the Wayne Foundation (whose building was redesigned in the early 1970s), which did not yet exist at this point. Second, it's awkwardly obvious here that Alfred had never been given a canonical last name. In one 1945 story, he'd used the name "Alfred Beagle," but that hadn't been mentioned again afterward. The name "Pennyworth" was first used in 1969, five years after this story.

Why did editor Julius Schwartz kill off Alfred, who'd been a staple of the Batman strip since 1943? According to Schwartz, it was to help lay to rest the insinuations that had been floating around for years (especially in the wake of Frederic Wertham's SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT a decade earlier) that the Wayne household seemed awfully gay. It should be understood that the modern conception of Alfred as a military veteran and one-time badass didn't arise until the 1980s; since his introduction in 1943, Alfred had been primarily a comic relief figure, and generally a bit of a ninny. Schwartz wanted to replace him with a "a sort of chaperoning den mother," which became Dick Grayson's Aunt Harriet, introduced at the end of this story:

Schwartz claimed that he borrowed the name "Aunt Harriet" from the lyrics of the 1929 Hoagy Carmichael standard "Rockin' Chair." Like Alfred, she didn't initially have a last name (the name "Cooper" came from the TV show, and didn't appear in the comics until DETECTIVE COMICS #373). In the comics, she was not as old or quite as matronly as Madge Blake, who played the character on TV; she was perhaps a decade older than Bruce Wayne.

I'm a little skeptical of Schwartz's assertion that his goal in killing off Alfred in favor of Aunt Harriet was to make Bruce and Dick seem less gay. If that was the plan, it wasn't terribly effective: For one, as the TV show demonstrated, her presence in the Wayne household hardly decreased the camp factor, and the principal dynamic of her comics appearances was to have her nosiness constantly threaten to "out" her nephew and his guardian! Moreover, the "New Look" period actually discarded the three recurring female characters who'd previously been positioned as romantic foils (Batwoman/Kathy Kane, Vicki Vale, and Bat-Girl/Betty Kane) — there would be new ones, but they wouldn't appear for a while, nor did Catwoman (who had been absent since 1956 and didn't return to the comics until 1966) — so Schwartz actually cemented Bruce and Dick's "confirmed bachelor" status, at least for a while.

My guess is that Schwartz, who had been given just six months to turn around BATMAN and DETECTIVE COMICS (whose sales were in very bad shape in 1963–1964), figured that killing Alfred would be an easy way to shake things up a bit. As with the yellow oval Carmine Infantino added to Batman's chest emblem, it was a dramatic but largely cosmetic gesture that didn't really alter the direction of the strip in any very meaningful way.

[wanderingmind867]

Or Aunt Harriet from the 60s series. Really, we should bring back the characters from the 60s series. That show had a great supporting cast.

actually it's very easy to erase Alfred from the batfam

just bring back phillip wayne and Mrs. Chilton

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Dick's canonical cousins with Betty Cooper from Riverdale!

Archie Meets Batman '66 Issue #4

Archie Meets Batman '66 Issue #6

yup she's real

Detective Comics Issue #328

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6 fanarts featuring beautiful Black Women in CC!!

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COMMANDER HARRIET SHEPARD in MASS EFFECT 1: LEGENDARY EDITION

"A philosopher once asked, “Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?” Pointless, really… “Do the stars gaze back?” Now, that’s a question." — neil gaiman, stardust

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A Jerry Pickney Saturday

Jerry Pinkney (1939-2021) was a multi-award-winning American illustrator and children’s book author. His numerous awards include a Caldecott Medal (2010); five Caldecott Honor Book awards; five Coretta Scott King Book Awards (the most for any illustrator); five Coretta Scott King Honor Awards; the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award (2016); the 2016 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award; four Gold medals, four Silver medals, and the 2016 Original Art Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Illustrators; and he was nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, considered the Nobel Prize for children's literature, among many other awards and recognitions.

The images shown here are Pickney’s pencil, color pencil, and watercolor illustrations for children’s book author Alan Schroeder’s 1996 fictional biography, Minty, A Story of Young Harriet Tubman, published in New York by Dial Books for Young Readers. This book won Pickney the 1997 Coretta Scott King Book Award for Illustrator, and the book was a Cooperative Children's Book Center Choice for 1996.

Schroeder writes that “While Minty is a fictional account of Harriet Tubman’s childhood, and some scenes have been invented for narrative purposes, the basic facts are true.” Of illustrating this book, Pinkney writes:

The challenge that Minty initially posed for me came from not having a clear picture of Harriet Tubman’s early childhood. However, I was able to imagine the spirited eight-year-old Minty, using Alan Schroeder’s strong text and Harriet Tubman’s biography, The Moses of Her People, as springboards. The National Park Service was also helpful . . . as was the Banneker-Douglas Museum in Maryland, where extensive research uncovered the style of plantations around Maryland during Minty’s childhood and authentic details regarding backgrounds, dress, food, and living conditions of the enslaved as well as the slave owners. My interest was to give some sense of Minty’s noble spirit and open a window to understanding the day-to-day, sunup to sundown life of the slave, by individualizing the hardships in overwhelming circumstances.

In 1978 I was privileged to create the first Harriet Tubman commemorative stamp for the U.S. Postal Service. This book, then, brings me full circle with Harriet’s life and courage.

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[wanderingmind867]

My Batman '66 Episode Idea, inspired by the Cupid scenes in the House of Hades.

Episode Titles: Cupid sounds the Call/Batman against the Wall

Special Guest Villian: Dean Martin as Cupid

Plot of Part Two: We pick up where Part One left off, with Batman and Robin about to be killed via an elaborate deathtrap put together by Cupid. In ten minutes, an arrow will slice through the rope holding them and a giant glass heart in the air. When the heart crashes to the floor, the dynamic duo is sure to die. How are they going to get out of this trap!?

Well…their freedom all depends on Batman successfully managing to disarm the giant Cupid statue. His hands are just close enough to the utility belt for him to reach his bat laser beam. And then it becomes a simple matter of firing the thin laser at the head of the arrow. Once the arrowhead is broken off, Batman manages to slip one of his hands free of his restraints. Then he pulls out the batrope and throws it at the Cupid Statue. From there, he helps free Robin and they successfully climb to safety. And now it's back to the hunt for Cupid!

In the time it took them to slip out of their trap, Cupid's masterful scheme has begun at the monarch theatre. All the guests who drank his spiked punch or merely watched and listened to his performance onstage fell under his hypnotic spell. He got to all the major officials in the city, and Cupid is now master of all! By the time Batman and Robin manage to catch up with him, he's already making plans to redecorate Gotham Town Hall so it can become his own private office.

Now that Batman and Robin are really down and out, they need to think of a way out of this mess. Because Commissioner Gordon, Chief O'Hara, even Alfred and Aunt Harriet have all fallen under Cupid's spell. With everyone they trust out of commission, who can Batman and Robin turn to? Well, the answer there is simple. So simple that only a purely objective and analytical device like the Bat Computer can figure it out.

You see, Cupid's spell only works on those who either (A): Feel Romantic Attraction; or (B): Can see and hear him. This means the only people capable of defeating him are aromantic people or people with no sense of sight or sound. So this shows Batman and Robin how to save the day. They're gonna have to find an aromantic citizen or criminal or something to guide them, while they fight crime with ear plugs and blindfolds.

Now, I don't really know which villian or citizen the dynamic duo recruits to help them, but I could definitely see them ending up recruiting all the aromantic people in Gotham (which has to be at least a hundred or more people, considering gotham's size). And then a blindfolded and ear plugged Batman and Robin crash into City Hall. And with a legion of gothamites helping them in the fight, Cupid is swiftly defeated. Down for the Count, Batman and Robin haul him off to jail. But not before first thanking their fellow gothamites. "Aromantic you may be, but today you've shown you truly know the meaning of helping your fellow man. Thank you, citizens".

The last scene of the episode is back at Wayne Manor. Aunt Harriet and Alfred are recovering, and the news is reporting on how Cupid's crime wave failed due to Cupid underestimating the people of gotham (as well as Batman and Robin). But Cupid wrote a note to the Batman (he's not allowed to read it aloud, since his voice is so hypnotic), and the news is reading it live for the very first time. In the letter, Cupid swears he'll break free and have his revenge. One day, even Batman won't be immune to his charms! One day, he will conquer this pitiful city! One day…

Aunt Harriet then remarks on how ghastly it is, that a man like Cupid could use love as an instrument of evil. And then Bruce delivers a speech about how love can be used for both good and for bad, and how honest, noble citizens must always remember to use it in the proper way. And then Aunt Harriet proposes a belated Valentine's Day party, just the four of them. And we end on a sweet domestic shot of Bruce, Dick, Alfred and Aunt Harriet.

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Licorice Pizza

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I need all of you to understand how much I hate editing.

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The maze women: free space

The women of the maze women go to the cinema, what do they see and what do they wear

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Licorice Pizza

2021. Comedy Drama

By Paul Thomas Anderson

Starring: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie, Skyler Gisondo, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, John Michael Higgins, Christine Ebersole, Harriet Sansom Harris, Ryan Heffington...

Country: United States

Language: English

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[ID: Ten gifs of New Doctor Who. In the first and second gifs Harriet Jones is standing in the UNIT HQ, showing her ID and saying: "Harriet Jones, Prime Minister." Daniel Llewellyn of the British Rocket Group answers: "Well, yes, I know who you are." In the third and fourth gifs, still at UNIT HQ, Harriet introduces herself again: "I don't think we've been introduced. Harriet Jones, Prime Minister." Sally Jacobs, a UNIT secretary, answers with a smile: "Yes. I know who you are."

In the fifth and sixth gifs, over a video screen, Harriet holds up her ID and says: "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister." Jack Harkness, standing in the Hub with Ianto Jones and Gwen Cooper next to him, says with a slight laugh: "Yeah, I know who you are." In the seventh and eighth gifs she repeats the introduction to Martha and Francine Jones, and Martha smiles awkwardly at her mother, who returns the smile, and says: "Yes, I know who you are." In the ninth and tenth gifs Harriet stands up and shows her ID to several Daleks who have invaded her home. She says: "Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister." One of the Daleks answers: "Yes, we know who you are!" End ID]

Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North!  Blimey, it’s like “This is Your Life”!