In the sixties, DC Comics did a revamp of their (now) billion-dollar property, Batman. The character had previously been drawn in a somewhat cartoony style not unlike what Chester Gould had done quite successfully with Dick Tracy in the newspaper strip of the same name. Commencing in 1964, the Caped Crusader was drawn in a more realistic form by the award-winning artist Carmine Infantino. He was also drawn by a couple of other artists who were either ghosting for Bob Kane or drawing the hero's appearances in comics in which he was not the star character. Whichever it was, they were trying to reach the same kind of realism as shown in Infantino's covers and stories.
During that period, Mr. Infantino penciled these poster drawings which have been reissued in many forms over many years. The inking on them was done by Murphy Anderson and a lot of fans will tell you he was the best inker that Infantino ever had. A lot of them love these drawings and if the original art for one ever came up for auction — as far as I know, neither has — I'll bet it would sell for some large number containing five or six digits to the left of decimal point.
I think there's something wrong with these drawings and it's always bugged me when I've seen them…and it is not (repeat: not) that in the one on the right, areas of the character's costumes are blue when they should be grey. In fact, this is not about the coloring at all and it's not about the hero not having eyeballs either.
We are now going to play a popular, widely-beloved and never-before-played-by-anyone game that I just invented called "What Does Mark Think Is Wrong With These Pictures?" I'm asking you to guess what I think is wrong with these pictures…not what you think is wrong with these pictures but what I think is wrong with them.
Do not send me your guesses. Keep them to yourselves. But visit this site tomorrow and read what I think is wrong with these pictures, keeping in mind that you may not agree with me. The correct answer is not what you think is wrong with them. It's what I think is wrong with them. So lower your I.Q. long enough to think like me before you make your guess — and remember, you can make the pictures larger by clicking your little mouse on either — then check in here tomorrow to see if you're right. Thank you.