#btbatb

[wanderingmind867]

(The All New Batman: The Brave and The Bold #2): Is Bruce Wayne seeing himself reflected in Billy Batson? I think he is. Two orphans, lonely and lost in this world. Only one is still a kid, and the other is like 30. Still, I love this dynamic. I also love Billy's face in that last panel. He's so happy he cured Batman's depression, it's adorable.

[dcdreamblog]

You have any favorite songs about superheroes?

I DO actually. It comes from the utterly DELIGHTFUL cartoon Batman: The Brave and the Bold

There have been a few "True Crime" superhero shows of one kind or another, using details of real battles and real cases to make dramatizations of the lives of our favorite superheroes. Some of them play it more close to the bone than others, some of them REALLY do not but my favorite of all of them is Brave and the Bold because instead of trying to use the "Based on a True Story" card to add gravitas or pedigree to the show they went "What if we find all the weirdest, dumbest case files with Batman's name on them and put them to television?" and so they did. Of course a lot of the details on cases are switches, mashed or otherwise altered. Sometimes to fill in details that aren't public record, sometimes just for dramatic convenience but every single episode of the show is based on a real case file. The show's episodes would begin with these little cold opens where Batman and a different tag partner than the one from the main episode would do something cool, something to hype kids up for the credits. This being no exception. And the way they went about it is even cooler. While "The Ballad of the Batman" is SUNG by voice actor John DiMaggio of Futurama and Adventure Time fame the song was WRITTEN by Greg Saunders himself who also played guitar on the track. Evidently this song had been something of a writing exercise for Saunders for a long time, even back to the war days he would write these melodious odes to his fellow superheroes to help loosen his hand while stuck on a song he meant for actual release. I've seen entire notebooks of them left here at the museum (truly they are not the man's best work but they were never meant to actually be PLAYED so yknow). He was approached by the show to do a voice cameo but declined because he didn't feel like he had the right skill for it (ignoring his little prank with the Vigilante serial he never considered himself much of an actor). But DID offer to dust off this one, clean it up into a real song and have it performed for the show! Saunders joked that due to the realities of modern broadcast television, this song is probably the one from his discography that was the most widely heard. And looking at his Spotify stats he is NOT wrong.

[sixseasonsandamovie-meimei]

my DC hot take is that you’re not allowed to call yourself a true batman fan until you’ve watched the cinematic masterpiece that is Batman The Brave and the Bold: season 1, episode 25, Mayhem of the Music Meister!

[armed-with-a-waffle-iron]

Helena was actually aiming for my heart, Selina.🎯

The Masks of Matches Malone, Batman: Brave and the Bold (or that infamous Gail Simone episode that got fucking banned in the US).

[batmanvidoes]

Batman: the Brave and the Bold S3 E3 "Night of the Batmen!"

[crackerboxpal]

favorite choir kid ever

[starleska]

god, i am so screwed when we see Maestro fully in a couple of days. i have a track record with smiley camp music-themed villains 🙈💖💖💖

[gobin-king]

Music Meister My Beloved...💞

[harleycao]

Basically all DC fans need to read this, just fyi.

[ajtheweirdo]

I don’t feel like learning how to draw brave and bold Batman

[wanderingmind867]

(The All New Batman: The Brave and The Bold #2): Aww. Billy, Freddy, Mary, tawky Tawny and Hoppy the Marvel Bunny are off celebrating Christmas in Gotham. I love that. They're so adorable. Although their fashion sense is some of the most archaic stuff i've ever seen. They look like extras from Annie or Oliver Twist or something. No offense, but I think the artist was just drawing what the stereotype of "orphan" looks like. Still, I love it. Who am I to judge these kids for their 1930s or 1800s style fashion? I'm just happy seeing them having a Merry Christmas. The same goes for Batman and Robin. I'm just happy this version of Batman actually has happy holidays. Most other Batmen don't seem the type to do this (especially not the dark ones).

[typhoonquixol]

NO MY BOYS DON'T FIGHT

As a massive Brave and the Bold fan this broke my heart to see.

[mmmbeetlejuice]

Batman the brave and the bold saved music master by turning him into Music Meister, so I felt the need to do the same.

[hollowsart]

Batman B&B style Sonar ✨️

Originals:

[systimming]

Batman: Brave and the Bold board with gifs from the series + writing stims!

- Mod Pent + Mod Rob.

((Sources of gifs: x, x, x | x, x, x | x, x, x ))

[sepublic]

Wait is Batman: The Brave and the Bold’s premise essentially Batman going through empty nest syndrome after his kids have grown up and moved out? And so he copes by mentoring new kids?