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Click for full imagePete Comments: The prequel to Batman Begins.
Published 1950
(Average: 8.40 out of 10)
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Pete Comments: The prequel to Batman Begins.
Published 1950
(Average: 8.40 out of 10)Loading...
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September 23rd, 2011 at 9:40 am
Wait, I’m confused. Which is which?
September 23rd, 2011 at 10:41 am
Me too! Perhaps the robot could have had a least a couple of gangster stylings.
September 23rd, 2011 at 11:04 am
“Begorrah! Human Bat, how did you manage to catch the Robot Gangster!?”
“It was a trifle, Sergeant O’Hanlahan… once I noticed the spikes around its waist. All I had to do was find a big enough pin cushion.”
September 23rd, 2011 at 11:44 am
Not only is this the best cover I have EVER seen, it is the best title EVER. The internet can rest easy – it has, today, justified its existence.
September 23rd, 2011 at 11:47 am
Robot Gangster: Ha Ha. R2D2 will sleep with the fishes.
Human Bat: Klaatu Barada Nikto!
Robot Gangster: Curse you, Human bat!
September 23rd, 2011 at 12:10 pm
‘Edward R Home•Gall’ … since when is that a name?
September 23rd, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Home-Gall?
(Maybe changed it from his original birth-name “Edward R. Gallstone”.)
September 23rd, 2011 at 12:25 pm
There was a sequel, ROBOT BAT VS. THE HUMAN GANGSTER, but it sank without a trace. For some reason.
September 23rd, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Can it be… can this be I Sing the Body Electrics undoing!?!?
September 23rd, 2011 at 12:51 pm
I must find and read this book. Although I wonder if any story could truly do that title justice.
September 23rd, 2011 at 1:15 pm
He only published one other sci-fi book…. The HUman Bat — the cover isn’t NEARLY as bad…
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XsVALQtGIZM/TRocmIIntJI/AAAAAAAATQw/_e2Dq25Cn7k/s1600/Goulden+FL1+Home-Gall+The+Human+Bat+%2528small%2529.jpg
September 23rd, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Dunno about versus, Mr Human Bat appears to be giving friendly advice on aiming his bullets to frustrated Mr Robot Gangster. Maybe they have a falling out late on in the book?
September 23rd, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Wow. The awesomeness level on this one is incredibly high. I also would have liked to see more gangsterisms on the robot, but I do like the cyclops-eye and the little antennae.
September 23rd, 2011 at 6:48 pm
I almost missed it, but the robot is actually shooting at the human-bat with his finger. I had mistaken it for a smear on the book. And is that smoke coming out of the spikes on his belt, or those actual smears?
But yes, this is one of best titles I have seen so far!
September 23rd, 2011 at 7:06 pm
That cover obviously foreshadows the death of Luca Brasi at the hands of Virgil “The Turk” Sollozzo.
September 23rd, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Obviously, Robot Gangster is shooting a nail-gun from his fingertips.
*BADA-BUM!* Thank you, thank you!
September 23rd, 2011 at 7:32 pm
All this for 1/6. Bargain!
Mr Home-Gall’s other titles include the fabulous MYSTERY GOAL-GETTER OF THE ROVERS, the stunning LIGHTNING, THE ONE TON WONDER, and the astonishing THE SECRET CENTRE-HALF. He sure knew how to concoct a title!
Details here:
http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2010/12/edward-r-home-gall.html
September 23rd, 2011 at 11:38 pm
Why does a robot gangster need nostrils…?
Answers on a Christmas cracker joke please!
September 24th, 2011 at 1:58 am
His sidekick is the Monkey Bat
September 24th, 2011 at 8:47 am
That is indeed smoke coming from Robot Gangster’s nozzles and not just smears.
September 24th, 2011 at 11:18 am
“Why does a robot need nostrils?” I’d wager that he is either steam- or atom-powered, so he needs the nostrils for cooling!
Curious eye arrangement, though. Perhaps he only needs the one eye because his twin antennae compensate for the lack of three-dimensional visual perception.
September 25th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
@SI: he doesn’t need them! He’s pinched them, and the Human Bat has come to return the nostrils to their rightful owner.
Good show sir!
September 29th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
“Look here Huma-Bat THIS is how you do the bat-tusy!”
November 25th, 2013 at 3:15 pm
Many have decried the robot for not being ‘gangsta’ enough, but I’m pretty sure the cover artist had never seen a bat, either.
For starters, they aren’t red.
November 27th, 2013 at 8:03 pm
This is the cover that keeps on giving.
🙂
March 5th, 2017 at 1:14 am
Following the Human Bat’s eye-line, there must be something more remarkable than a robot playing charades behind the android and to our right.
March 7th, 2017 at 12:20 am
I’m waiting for the third book in the trilogy –
THE HUMAN ROBOT vs. THE GANGSTER BAT
March 7th, 2017 at 12:58 am
@Hammy: I thinK they’d go for a synthesis – THE HUMAN BADGER
March 8th, 2017 at 1:44 am
With guest appearance by Spiny Norman.
Dinsdaaaale