THE BRAINSTORMS

Oh, there's Joker? And Santa? Huh. The very first issues of Batman to be published after America entered World War II, Batman (1940) #9, are issues I anticipated to be particularly pointed in their war-based content. I was anticipating fighting of Nazi spies, racially charged Japanese stereotypes unfortunately typical of 1940s comics (we'll talk about that more in another article). But I didn't get that. What I got instead, was a quartet of other stories. First, a story featu