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Originally posted by Dave:
My all time classic WTF? comes from a Batman Xmas story. Jim Aparo did the art.

Batman is driving along in the Batmobile, and sees ...Plastic Man. Turns out Plas has fallen on hard times, and is out on the street begging for change.
As I noted once or twice on the old DCMB, the Brave and Bold series, as written by Bob Haney, was a treasure trove of "WTF" moments.

From making Plastic Man a sorrowful, sobbing, freak, to having Sgt. Rock still alive in the 1970s and fighting a secret war with Germany, to having Batman and Gordon speak patented DC "jive" whenever the moment suited them, Haney's B&B run was one big WTF moment.

Second only to B&B for this sort of thing was Haney's run on World's Finest, where Superman and Batman were given teenaged sons (originally claimed to be "in continuity" but then relegated to a "what if" computer simulation) and Bruce Wayne had a retarded older brother who was later possessed by Deadman, among other things.

In fact, you might say Haney's entire comic book output was one big WTF moment.