It would be better if Superman tells the Spectre to place those memories in his own Kryptonian brain (he could take it, he's all Super and stuff and it would make him look more heroic). I suppose this is just Monday-morning comic book writing, though.
Ian Brill | Email | Homepage | 09.03.05 - 10:41 am | #

I suppose this is just Monday-morning comic book writing, though.

*snicker*
Jon | Email | Homepage | 09.03.05 - 10:51 am | #

Okay, in that bottom Archie comic, i get the crab joke, but does it not look like Arch is gesturing to Chuck as an example of how they serve "Anybody"?
The Amazing David-Man | Email | Homepage | 09.03.05 - 11:13 am | #

I just realized that that is what the author of the page wanted the reader to notice and I am ashamed. I go now.
The Amazing David-Man | Email | Homepage | 09.03.05 - 11:15 am | #

Actually, I thought it was Superman who took the memories. Am I wrong?
Michael J. Suzio | 09.03.05 - 12:22 pm | #

Michael - I thought that at first, too, and it seems to be implied slightly that Superman did get the memories, but that may have been just to throw off the reader prior to the *shock* *surprise* ending. The final shot of the clearly crazier-than-usual Joker with the Spectre's face reflected in his eyes seems to indicate that Mister J got Bats' memories.
Mikester | Homepage | 09.03.05 - 1:28 pm | #

Isn't there a silver age panel out there floating in the net wherein Hal Jordan brags about how he used his ring to wipe out his own memories and those of the Flash of their respective secret identities? Something like that.
N | Email | Homepage | 09.03.05 - 1:41 pm | #

When I first read #770, I thought the Joker was given Batman's memories. On second reading, I thought Superman took them.

But the whole matter was cleared up in Action #784, the 'Last Laugh' tie-in. In it, Superman finally confesses to Batman what he did:

Batman: "You tampered with my mind."
Superman: "I -- yes. I took your memories, all the pain, into me."

It makes Supes' decision all the more heroic and self-sacrificing, too. Rather than forcing those memories on an unwitting third party, Superman was willing to take on the burden himself, in order to save a friend.
Loren | Email | Homepage | 09.03.05 - 8:13 pm | #

I posted this bit a while back, with the whole JLA happily going along with a world-wide mindwipe.

http://img290.echo.cx/img290/981...17/ jlakd5tn.jpg
bob | 09.04.05 - 10:16 am | #

That's even more extreme than the panel I was thinking of!

Someone ought to collect panels from all the mindwiping that's been going on in the DCU over the last four decades or so, just for a yuk.
N | Email | Homepage | 09.04.05 - 10:57 am | #

Learn something new every day, I guess...now if only I could learn something useful!

Don't we all wish that?
Jon | Email | Homepage | 09.04.05 - 1:34 pm | #