Playing a Twists track backwards at an altered speed issues a mysterious message quite possibly from (insert Scooby-Doo-type spooky music here) beyond the grave?īatman #222, script by Frank Robbins, art by Irv Novick and Dick GiordanoĪh, such is the sort of shenanigans the youth of America could get up to in that golden age of needle-on-vinyl music. Dick Grayson, protégé of the World’s Greatest Detective, smells a mystery surrounding this Faux Four.
In Batman #222 (an issue in which Harvey Dent would have killed to guest-star), the rumor that “Saul is dead” has given a publicity boost to the careers of the British pop quartet the Oliver Twists. That fans would think the Beatles would hide macabre clues about the passing of their friend and bandmate is perhaps one of the most bizarro myths of the 1960s, and absolutely ripe material for a Batman mystery story. 9,” and “Paul is dead now, miss him, miss him” on “I’m So Tired.” Beatles songs were alleged to contain messages cluing us to Paul’s death if played backwards: “Turn me on, dead man” in “Revolution No. The cover of “Abbey Road” features Paul crossing the street barefoot and out of step with the others, while a license plate in the background reads “28IF” – that is, Paul would have been 28 IF he had lived. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” (parodied on the Batman cover), Paul is facing away from the camera, his head abuts the lyric “Without You,” and the three black buttons on his belt symbolize the other Beatles in mourning. There were many supposed clues to “prove” Paul’s death. Well, no, Robin, no, it isn’t, any more than there were any clues that supported the famous “Paul is dead” Beatles urban legend of 1969. “One of them is dead – but which one?” “The clue is on their album cover!” Robin exclaims. On the “this scene does not appear in this comic book” cover, Batman and Robin spy on a Beatlesque quartet leaving a graveside. “Here they come!” declares Batman, immediately prompting a cease and desist lawsuit from the Monkees. Cover of Batman #222 (June 1970), art by Neal Adams
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