I’ve no idea how he got on with Circe though I’d be far more concerned with the centaur in the background. In the 1950s Rip Hunter travelled back in time and met a few famous characters in the process. Hercules going for the Hello Kitty stripper look.ĭeciding it’s best not to correct a God armed with thunderbolts over what your name is, Diana proceeds to earth and is assisted by a US soldier. Where Batman decided to save Greece from an ancient threat, Yellowjacket comics released a series of 10 comics in 1944 featuring Diana who is sent by Zeus so save her native Greece from the Nazis. After Professor Nichols does his bit the caped crusaders help save Cleopatra and discover how the bat-signal got there. At an exhibit in Gotham museum the duo see a depiction of the bat-signal on a frieze. This time encountering Cleopatra in a story most academics view as ‘improbable’.īodyguards of Cleopatra involved the duo travelling back via a thoroughly explained and in depth analysis of time travel theory Professor Nichols. ![]() ![]() Not only do they foil the plan but Batman ends up competing in the games and joins Nero as the only other non-Greek to do so.īoth a fighter and a lover the man bat was back in 1951. This woul cause a civil war which will destabilise Greece and allow the Persians to invade. Needless to say mischief is afoot, in the form of the Persians who aim to have their men, dressed as Athenians, kill some Spartans. This was the setting for Batman Peril in Greece which came out in 1946. Going one step further and again using the coincidentally convenient skills of Professor Nichols the dynamic duo decide to visit the Olympic games after wondering how the athletes trained. Batman.īatman’s earliest foray into antiquity (that I could find) occurred in 1944 in the story It happened in Rome.īatman and Robin are sent back via the hypnotic abilities of Professor Nichols, and the two unearth mass corruption amongst the elite of Rome. I’ve selected a few, if you have found any more you want to share then tweet using #classicsandcomics as it’d be great to have this as a general resource. After tweeting out a few and noting the use of #classicsandcomics by I decided to have a more in depth look and found quite a few instances of this. Recently I stumbled upon a few unusual, if not downright quirky clashes of superheroes and antiquity.
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