A 1966 Newspaper Predicts a Future Where People Find Meaning In Batman By Chris Sims With so many magazines, newspapers and books from the past archived online, it can often be fun to go back and check out their predictions for the future and see how they stacked up against what actually happened. Usually, they’re pretty far off the mark in ways that are both disappointing (we still haven’t gotten those flying cars or personal jetpacks) and relieving (we still haven’t had a nuclear armageddon either), but there’s one story from the past that predicted the future with terrifying accuracy: An article from 1966 claiming that someday, people would obsess over Batman to the point where they actually write articles searching for a deeper meaning in his super-heroic adventures.To be fair, Rick Du Brow’s article stops short of actually including words like “Internet,” “Batmanology” or “Chris Sims,” but other than that, it pretty much makes Nostradamus look like the chump he was. Read more at ComicsAlliance.
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A 1966 Newspaper Predicts a Future Where People Find Meaning In Batman

By Chris Sims

With so many magazines, newspapers and books from the past archived online, it can often be fun to go back and check out their predictions for the future and see how they stacked up against what actually happened. Usually, they’re pretty far off the mark in ways that are both disappointing (we still haven’t gotten those flying cars or personal jetpacks) and relieving (we still haven’t had a nuclear armageddon either), but there’s one story from the past that predicted the future with terrifying accuracy: An article from 1966 claiming that someday, people would obsess over Batman to the point where they actually write articles searching for a deeper meaning in his super-heroic adventures.

To be fair, Rick Du Brow’s article stops short of actually including words like “Internet,” “Batmanology” or “Chris Sims,” but other than that, it pretty much makes Nostradamus look like the chump he was.

Read more at ComicsAlliance.

Source: comicsalliance.com

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