flashback wrote:
Scathach80 wrote:
Grant wrote:
It might have "copied" Batman by going the deliberate campiness route, but like Batman, it made that entertaining. Like the line at his (supposed) grave - "You were a bit of a prig, but you were a real straight shooter."

Well, they did not have child sidekick in pixie shoes, shaved legs, etc. in the original source, but the original Spirit tales did quite often feature extremely childish tales. This included those reprinted by Warren.
  

what is your fixation with a" child sidekick with pixie shoes, shaved legs ect"? 


   In Amazing Heroes#119 in 1987, Max Allan Collins had an interview. He said the following about how he wrote for DC:

“I’m afraid what I’m running smack up into is the old Batman TV show controversy: the old business about, Gee that was a TV show that made fun of Batman and made fun of comic books, so we have to show people that Batman and comic books are serious and they’re adult and accordingly all the fun goes out of it. There was a reason why that TV show was played for laughs and that is when you put actual human beings in those costumes and act out those stories, it looks stupid. They betray their juvenile roots”. I would note that a child sidekick in pixie shoes, shaved legs, etc. illustrates this situation.