Luckily, this fight will only last forever in every comic book ever printed til the end of time. |
The hell is a "Fued"? |
One of these early conflicts was in the pages of World's Finest Comics vol.1 No.95 (Jul-Aug 1958, "The Battle of the Super-Heroes") wherein Batman mysteriously gains a full complement of super-powers even as both he and Superman suddenly develop a heated rivalry with one another.
The story begins with Batman and Robin busying themselves with a cozy nighttime patrol in their tricked-out Bat-Flivver with Batman idly reminiscing on the fact that he'd recently had a blackout while puttering about the Batcave, but deciding not to worry Robin with that particularly troubling news. Sure, Batman, why bother telling Robin that you've been having blackouts, your only his senior partner in frequent battles against angry men with guns. It's not like he counts on you being conscious. Sometimes I wonder if Robin isn't the mature one in this pairing.
WHEN TITANS CLASP! |
Eventually Superman notices his pal's new powers, because no one can avoid the eternally spying eye of Superman. The problem is - he's peeved about it! And Batman's peeved too! In fact, it's mutual peeve, and the World's Finest Team is now the World's Most Peevish Team, they'll have to rename the books.
Neither hero ends up proving to be much use to the world, despite their massive powers, owing to their mutual feud occupying the entirety of their attention. This is about when Robin tries to help and, in doing so, makes things significantly worse. Straight Wesley Crushering the whole scene, Robin tries to ramp up the individual hero's jealousy with a whisper campaign intended to direct them towards fighting natural disasters and nearby crime, but the end result is BATMAN AND SUPERMAN FIGHT OHHHHHHHHH SHIIII
Briefly combining efforts to stop a hurricane, the collaboration turns into a mighty battle. Superman tosses Batman through a brick wall, so Batman batters Superman with a lamppost. Superman hucks boulders at Batman, Batman swats them back with an uprooted tree. Superman puts his rough hands on Batman's chest, Batman bites passionately at Superman's neck, ears and mouth. The pair greedily consume each other's lips. Their steely bodies grind. You know, the usual stuff that happens when superheroes fight.
"We want to wrap this up before Game of Thrones starts!" |
Using an Abduction ray to bring them to Xylm, they turn a Super-power-ray on Batman and a Hate Ray on the pair of them, then use an Amnesia Ray on 'em to make sure they don't remember the event and then send them back to Earth with another Transportation Ray. Xylm's primary export is "rays."
The ending rushes along from that point, as Robin is shunted back to Earth to find his super-pals winding down their mutual antagonism and shaking hands like chums. It turns out the fat alien nerds had a BOSS fat alien nerd who HATES IT when they mess around with super-beings on other planets, so he flipped the switch that cancelled the Hate and Super-Power Rays and all in all this ending feels a little like one of those Grant Morrison-y meta stories where it turns out that we're the real higher-dimensional aliens, you know?
Crazy, man, real mind-bending stuff.
Oh, FEUD! |
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The hell is a "Fued"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeUvsMrgoIE
No no no. The act or condition of being overcome by a practitioner of Wing Chun. Past tense.
"He tried to start a fight, but got his ass thoroughly Kung-Fued."
I guess Ira Schnapp managed to find his dictionary before lettering the last panel.
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