One of the abounding lists in my new book is "Ten Crazy Items Found on Batman's Account Belt," spotlighting Batman's affection for accustomed aberrant accessories aural his belt. However, the accessories aural Batman's account belt are just a baby aftertaste of the abounding odd accessories in banana book history. Actuality are ten of the strangest.
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One of the coolest aspects of Captain America is the way that he throws his abiding absorber and consistently makes abiding to accept it backlash aback to his grasp. However, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby allegedly did not anticipate that was a air-conditioned abundant idea, because just two issues afterwards they re-introduced Captain America into the Marvel Universe in Avengers #4, they came up with a accessory area Captain America would use magnets on his wrist to ascendancy the shield.
Also, for an abiding shield, it seemed absolutely simple for the Avengers to pop the top off to put electronics in the middle. This absorber abstraction was anon alone (and the absorber acclimated with the alluring accessory was backward said to be a replica and not the aboriginal abiding shield).
The Plastimold accessory is acceptable a bit too ample to appropriately be termed a "gadget," but I will achievement you will absolve me for insisting on including it as this Kryptonian accessory alone helped actualize one of the abundant banana book moments of all-time…Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane #106 area Lois decides to do an betrayal on racism by application the Plastimold to become an African-American woman for a day. Lois somehow bootless to cure racism in her one day as a Black woman. She did administer to do her best to try to forward Superman on a answerability trip. He wasn't marrying you either way, Lois!
There is a acumen why the Invisible Girl shouted "Not the Encephalo-Gun!" if Mister Fantastic brought the accessory out to action with his arch-nemesis, Doctor Doom, in Fantastic Four Annual #2.
Why does Reed even accept this device? "To what purpose did you ad-lib this thing, Reed? " "What if you aren't abiding who has the greatest mentality? And already you've approved who has the greater mentality, you can't just leave the added getting continuing there, you charge to forward them to some array of limbo, right?" Time able-bodied spent, Reed, time able-bodied spent.
During the mid-1960s, Batman was bent to use technology to accomplish detective plan so simple that he didn't even accept to leave his car. In Detective Comics #364, we apprentice that the Batmobile has a "Bat-tector" which can barometer noises and actuate if they are signs of a abomination getting committed. Two issues later, though, Batman's technology gets even added abundant if we see the Batmobile's babble amplifier, which can admeasurement heartbeats in adjacent buildings. Batman has charted what baby patterns announce crimes in progress.
I admiration how abounding times Batman access into somebody's accommodation alone to apprentice that the acumen the inhabitants' hearts were antagonism was because of assertive non-criminal bedchamber activity?
Choosing amid all of the ambush arrows that accept been acclimated over the years by DC Comics' Green Arrow (and his sidekick, Speedy) and Marvel's Hawkeye is a boxy one, as there accept been affluence of aberrant ambush arrows over the years (like Green Arrow's action afterglow arrow) and you adeptness accept a altered aces for the strangest ambush arrow, but I am traveling with the Chimney Sweep Arrow. In Adventure Comics #263, Speedy is agitated that Green Arrow will not accession his allowance, so he goes to plan part-time application his archery (and his ambush arrows) to do odd jobs about town. Here, he uses a Chimney Sweep Arrow to advice a factory. This arrow violates about twelve laws of physics, but hey, if it works, it works!
To accord you an abstraction of just how able Doctor Doom is at all times, in Amazing Spider-Man #5 he turns on the account and sees a adventure about Spider-Man. It occurs to Doom that this Spider-Man adeptness be a accessible accessory in Doom's action adjoin the Fantastic Four (after all, the account letters are talking about how abundant of a annoyance Spider-Man is). Luckily, Doom happens to accept a behemothic spider on duke which allows him to actualize a Spider-Wave Transmitter.
Now that's preparation! I would like to point out that there is no way that Doom could accept accepted at this point that Spider-Man had the "sensory admiral of a spider," but aback Doom angry out to be correct, who am I to apish his anticipation process?
This one is aswell conceivably too ample to appropriately alarm it a gadget, but the abstraction of Batman creating what amounts to a ache alcove is just too acceptable not to mention.
Introduced in Detective Comics #134, the "truth chamber" is amid in the Bat Cave. Batman brings abyss actuality to about drive them batty until they acquaint him what he wants to know.
Scanning people's apartments for their heartbeats, disturbing them, Batman abiding does not affliction about civilian liberties! I can't delay to we see what Batman comes up with next. "Well, Robin, aboriginal I yield this Bat-Cloth and put it over the bad guy's face. I afresh cascade baptize on to the bolt to accomplish him feel like he is drowning. I alarm it Bat-Boarding!"
When Hawkman and Hawkgirl aboriginal came to apple in The Brave and the Bold #34, they aboriginal acclimated telepathy via an cyberbanking academician to apprentice aggregate that the citizenry of Apple knew. This gave them insights into how to collaborate with the humans of Earth, adeptness to get a job on Apple as a building babysitter and even the adeptness to allege to birds (because they affiliated with ALL of the citizenry of Earth, even the animals).
A brace of issues later, the accessory got a abundant acknowledgment name, one of the coolest names of any banana book device…the Absorbascon!
Peter Parker is a genius. There is no agnosticism about it. As a teenager, he was able to actualize a able adhering that he could shoot out of automated "web shooters." That's talking top levels of allure and automated engineering! However, there's that and afresh there's what Peter cobbled calm in Amazing Spider-Man #2. Peter realizes that the awful Vulture is application magnets to ability his wings, acceptance him to fly (back in the aboriginal canicule of Marvel Comics, Stan Lee tended to accept that magnets and transistors could do appealing abundant annihilation imaginable). So Peter goes to plan in his bedchamber on a gadget. Afterwards a few hours, it is done. He fights the Vulture and Spider-Man and break out the apparatus and saves the day.
Later, he reflects on what the apparatus was. It was an "Anti-Magnetic Invertor." Yes, folks, teenaged Peter Parker invented a accessory that can abolish out magnetism! As amazing as that is, what is added amazing is that if they action afresh and Peter uses the accessory afresh alone to apprentice that the Vulture has changes his wings so that they no best use magnets to run, Peter just forgets about the accessory for good! "Oh well, it is no best advantageous for the purpose I invented it for, it's not like a accessory that can abolish out allure would anytime accept any added approaching use!" No admiration Peter Parker is consistently beggared for cash!
It is reasonable abundant that Batman and Robin adeptness acquisition some charge for jet-powered roller skates, like in Batman #117 but it is a lot added hasty to see Iron Man application roller skates! However, if Iron Man aboriginal acclimated them in Tales of Suspense #45 (just six months afterwards Iron Man's aboriginal appearance), the Iron Man armor was a acceptable accord added beefy and abundant beneath powerful…
The skates remained, though, and fabricated a abruptness actualization in Avengers #94 and accept popped up now and afresh anytime since.
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