Tracy and I ate lunch at Smash Toast then visited the Folklore Grove bookstore where I blatantly stole JD's line. The owner gave me a wry smile and nodded her head. She seemed to really appreciate learning about the book series which features a secret bookstore that Tracy recommended to her
At the floating Punk Market last weekend, I purchased two cheap paperbacks from the early 1950s. Tomboy has an intro by the infamous Dr. Wertham, while Behind the Flying Saucers is actually authored by Frank Scully. Wertham everyone here knows. Scully-- apart from giving his surname to Gillian Anderson's character on X-Files as a kind of ironic tribute-- wrote dubious works on flying saucers, and is responsible for "reporting" the Aztec Flying Saucer Crash of 1948, later exposed as a hoax. Some doubt remains as to whether he was misled or was a party to the hoax. Details of the Aztec Crash Hoax would be conflated with Roswell when that long-forgotten incident was rediscovered in the 1970s.
(Yes, it's true. Roswell had basically no influence on the 1950s UFO craze, and was only retrofitted into it after the incident was rediscovered in the 1970s, with the addition of dubious and outrageous claims not found in the original reports).
"King Tut" is a Batman TV villain that did not appear in comics until 2009, but I would be willing to bet that the character was inspired by Takeloth, the Chief of Cleopatra's Royal Police from Detective Comics #167 (1951), a dead ringer for Victor Buono.
If you have access to Detective Comics #167, take a look at page six, panel two. Then, if you have access to the Batman: The TV Stories tpb, take a look at some of the other stories that were adapted into TV episodes. Then tell me which character in the Cleopatra movie is the inspiration for this...
JD DeLuzio > Jeff of Earth-JOctober 13, 2025 at 5:05pm
Hmm.... I see a resemblance. But the popularity of a recent movie shouldn't be discounted. The series took a lot of inspiration from the pop culture of the time.
Replies
Secret bookstore!
That sounds like fun.... until it becomes necessary.
Tracy and I ate lunch at Smash Toast then visited the Folklore Grove bookstore where I blatantly stole JD's line. The owner gave me a wry smile and nodded her head. She seemed to really appreciate learning about the book series which features a secret bookstore that Tracy recommended to her
At the floating Punk Market last weekend, I purchased two cheap paperbacks from the early 1950s. Tomboy has an intro by the infamous Dr. Wertham, while Behind the Flying Saucers is actually authored by Frank Scully. Wertham everyone here knows. Scully-- apart from giving his surname to Gillian Anderson's character on X-Files as a kind of ironic tribute-- wrote dubious works on flying saucers, and is responsible for "reporting" the Aztec Flying Saucer Crash of 1948, later exposed as a hoax. Some doubt remains as to whether he was misled or was a party to the hoax. Details of the Aztec Crash Hoax would be conflated with Roswell when that long-forgotten incident was rediscovered in the 1970s.
(Yes, it's true. Roswell had basically no influence on the 1950s UFO craze, and was only retrofitted into it after the incident was rediscovered in the 1970s, with the addition of dubious and outrageous claims not found in the original reports).
All About The Simpsons - - Matt Groening Interview
HERE
"King Tut" is a Batman TV villain that did not appear in comics until 2009, but I would be willing to bet that the character was inspired by Takeloth, the Chief of Cleopatra's Royal Police from Detective Comics #167 (1951), a dead ringer for Victor Buono.
I think that it was more likely inspired by the 1963 Cleopatra movie, if I had to guess anything.
If you have access to Detective Comics #167, take a look at page six, panel two. Then, if you have access to the Batman: The TV Stories tpb, take a look at some of the other stories that were adapted into TV episodes. Then tell me which character in the Cleopatra movie is the inspiration for this...
Hmm.... I see a resemblance. But the popularity of a recent movie shouldn't be discounted. The series took a lot of inspiration from the pop culture of the time.
Actually Takeloth is the counterpart of Commisioner Gordon whom he strongly resembles.
Not a specific character but the Egyptian motif.
-
563
-
564
-
565
-
566
-
567
of 567 Next