Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Astronomers Are Sick, Sick People

Likely story department: Al Pratt, the Golden Age Atom, has to think very quickly when his girlfriend drops by work:

The good news: he avoided the Uranus joke. The bad news: his fly is still openAccidentally.

A huge observatory telescope. Meant to be looking up at the stars. And you just happened to, somehow, look into an apartment window.

Sure, whatever you say, Al.

Anyway, they see a murder, a whole Rear Window thing follows, it revolves around a cross-dressing evil twin (seriously!). None of which can distract us from the fact that:

Golden Age Atom=Peeping Tom.

He's just lucky Mary hadn't come in the night before, when he was checking apartments downtown...

Golden Age perversion courtesy of Flash Comics #90 (1947) as reprinted in 100-Page Super Spectacular #18 (1973). At least we now know where Hitchcock got the inspiration for Rear Window...

1 comment:

Menshevik said...

Wonderful. But shouldn't that read "sick, sad people"?