#Harriet cooper

[wanderingmind867]

I got Batman (the 1966 TV show) on DVD at Christmas. The entire series. I've watched the first eight episodes with my dad, now. And legitimately, I think we need to have a renaissance for this show. It's actually really dramatic sometimes. One of the best examples might be the episode with George Sanders as Mister Freeze. George Sanders makes some nice cold puns, but he also delivers many menacing lines. He was an evil scientist who batman accidentally threw a freezing solution at, and now he wants revenge. The warm winds of summer kill him, stabbing his jaw like hot flares of pain. He wants revenge! And he really feels like a bond villian or something. George Sanders just went all out, and that still impresses me. He brings out a german accent, gets some fun monologues, and even adam west gets to play a dramatic batman feeling shame over hurting mr freeze. It's stunningly melodramatic.

But it's also so sweet and domestic with the Wayne Manor scenes. Bruce, Dick, Alfred and Aunt Harriet... it's pretty much a weird extended family living together, and it's charming. It's so charming, and I think that no other Batman media successfully hits these high notes of charm. I can't say it enough: Adam West and Burt Ward might be the best Batman and Robin. This show could have run for 9 seasons, and I don't think I would have ever tired of it.

[northoftheroad]

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[cantsayidont]

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

[celaenaeiln]

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]

Batman was never raised by Alfred until after the Crisis on Infinite Earths. On both Earth-One and Earth-Two, Bruce was raised by his uncle Phillip (who i assume is his father's brother, but i'm not confident about that). In any case, I now have an idea for a lost episode of Batman '66: Bruce's Uncle Phillip comes to visit, and he ends up falling in love with Dick's Aunt Harriet. Nothing but chaos follows. That feels like a perfect 60s sitcom storyline, and I can only imagine if we could even just get a fancomic or piece of fanfiction about all of this. Because I think I've stumbled upon an interesting idea here.

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the stolen earth / journey's end should be studied.

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Licorice Pizza

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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