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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by RegularJoe@lemmy.world to c/outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world

Batman is waist deep in a hole. He peers into the hole and exclaims, "There's a problem with my Bat-Hole!"

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 25 points 1 month ago

"My bathole hurts, right around the entrance."

"It's gonna continue hurting until you stop calling it an entrance."

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

you should use some Preparation H for that.

feels good, on the hole

[-] THB@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Is it just me or does this look more like a purposely made modern panel that's been distressed?

[-] Dima@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Edit: seems this was posted to the subreddit of the same name a couple of years ago and decided that it was fake: https://old.reddit.com/r/outofcontextcomics/comments/1e28n8o/bathole/

Gemini thinks the speech bubble has been edited, but the panel is an original from "The bat-mite bandits" issue, note however that I don't think the issue number matches up and I'm not sure where to find a copy of the comics online to verify, so it could just be an AI hallucination

This specific panel is from Batman #141, published by DC Comics in August 1961. The story in this issue is titled "The Bat-Mite Bandits." In the unedited comic, the panel depicts Batman attempting to crawl out of a deep pit or trap, and his dialogue actually reads: "I can't make it! My strength is gone!" The "bat-hole" line is completely a modern photoshop edit circulating online as a meme.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"The Bat-Mite Bandits" is from Detective Comics #289, not Batman #141, so at least some of that is hallucinated. The year is correct, but the month is not:

There was a Bat-Man #141 in Aug. 1961, but there's no Bat-Mite Bandits story in it:

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[-] Dima@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, I saw the issue number didn't seem to match up, but gave up verifying it when I couldn't find a source to view the actual comics from that era to find the original panel. Was hoping it would be something that the LLM would be able to magically pull from it's training data or the web, but I'm guessing it was hampered by the same lack of a digital copy of comics from the era that stopped me from looking into it further.

[-] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

It's really annoying that AIs get such simple, easily verifiable things wrong and confidently state the incorrect info as fact. What a colossal waste of money and resources!

[-] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

I mean if it is fake it can be done without AI.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I tried to duckduckgo it, found nothing. Nothing within the ID tag, sometimes there's the data of what prompt they used.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I've noticed DDG has gotten pretty shitty when it comes to search results lately. Guessing MS is working at cutting out the wild web (and ddg uses bing as its backend).

[-] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I appreciate your skepticism

[-] Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

slaps Bat Hole

You can fit so many Robins in this thing!

I'll see m'self out

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Robin: Holy chasm, Batman! I didn't have any problem with it!

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Hadn’t thought of Robin as top.

[-] Iceman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Batman gets a hemorrhoid

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 5 points 1 month ago

It's never good news when your hole isn't working properly.

[-] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 month ago

Needs more bat-lube.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago
[-] captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago
[-] fonix232@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Me after last weekend:

[-] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 month ago

The gape is all wrong

[-] baconmonsta@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Where is this from?

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