Frank Miller's Holy Terror

[Drz]

Yeah, but nothing has ever come close to TDKR, Batman: Year One & Daredevil with me, still didn't stop me from enjoying his other Batman work nor Sin City nor Holy Terror.

[PB210]

"I do not like the homosexual (and perhaps homophobic) way that both Miller and Alan Davis portray The Joker".

As I recall in Amazing Heroes#189 interivew with Miller, actually a reprint from a book whose title I do not recall, but which seems to have come out around 1990 or 1991), Miller indicates that the wrote the scoundrel with this in mind or at least to evoke it.


Regarding testifying in court, mentioned upthread, Robert Ingersoll writes up another instance.
http://www.worldfamouscomics.com/law/back19990713.shtml
Ingersoll indicates that he feels this would require some at least tacit official recognition.

The Batman is on patrol and finds Anton Knight, the Night-Thief, committing a burglary. No one else sees the event, only the Batman........... Eventually, the Batman does capture Knight, but again no one else sees it. Finally, in Detective # 530, Knight stands trial for his malefactions.

Now, as the Batman was the only person who saw Knight committing any crime, the Batman's testimony would be needed in order to convict Knight. Needed? Try essential. Without the Batman, there would literally be no case against Knight. And sure enough, in Detective # 530, the Batman-in full cape and cowl-testifies against Knight.

Anyone out there care to explain to me exactly how the Batman accomplished this little feat?

He couldn't just swing into the courtroom and testify, you know.

I mean, how did the Batman prove he was the Batman?

If I were Anton Knight facing trial and I knew the only witness who could convict me was a man dressed in a gray and blue costume complete with mask and earpieces suitable for playing ring toss on; I'd want to keep that person from testifying. And, unless the witness could prove that he was the same man dressed in a gray and blue costume complete with mask and earpieces suitable for playing ring toss on who caught me, that person would never testify against me.

Before super-heroes whose real identities were unknown could testify in a court, they would have to prove they were really the hero they claimed to be and not some imposter in a costume. For all the judge knows the costumed witness could be a flunky hired by the defendant to lie and get the defendant acquitted.


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Bernie Goetz came up on this issue. Someone pointed out that they had considered having him testify. Goetz, however, appeared as himself, not in some alternate identity, and had to answer for illegal gun ownership charges. He did not just testify to a crime he saw in progress.