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Bialya, My Bialya! Giffen / De Matteis Justice League continues

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Johann continues (blithering): Bruce Wayne and his bimbo (played by Fire) is escorted to a limo with all the trimmings including a Nautilus machine (which at the time I assumed was a submarine of some sort and it was even funny to imagine why Bruce would need a submarine in the desert). In the mean time Booster and Beetle are at the baggage claim of the Bialyan airport familiarizing them selves with each others undercover identity's. Booster is dressed in outlandish Arabic (outlandish in the sense no Arab has dressed like that since the late 1700's) and his name is "Bharjwarj" and Beetle is dressed like a nerd with a spotted bow tie and his code name is George Baily (the significance of which eluded me at the time until my first Christmas in the United States (Now there is an entire story behind how I ended up watching "It's a wonderful life" during a huge Christmas party in my cousin Pierre's house in California). Meanwhile a few leagu...

Giffen/ DeMatteis: The Name is Wayne...Bruce Wayne

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