Bat-Mite

The 1950's are often recognized as a decade of false pretenses, a time when facades of perfection masked imperfect truths that could only be disguised but never eliminated. As with any time when appearances are paramount, censorship was an important aspect of that decade. Even comic books could not escape the hand of censorship when, in 1954, a powerful lobby of parents rallied to create the Comics Code Authority, a censorship board that took any form of vice, no matter how small, out of comic books. Essentially, all the fun was taken out of comic books.
Writers and publishers responded with a decade of comic stories that had to find extraordinarily subtle ways to keep the violence and sex in comics while adhering to the rigid censorship standards. As a result, comics got weird. Science fiction-based stories took over. Humans could not fight humans in comics anymore, but space aliens, and extra-dimensional beasts were fair game. So, in 1959, Batman readers were introduced to a tiny magical creature from the 5th dimension known as Bat-Mite. The tiny imp's idolizing of Batman bordered on worship and so, Bat-Mite would travel to our dimension as often as possible in order to see his hero in action. Bat-Mite appeared regularly in Batman comics for the next five years, but disappeared almost entirely for decades to come.
Today, Bat-Mite is back in the form of a tiny, nearly 5-month old baby named Rai Sequoia! We're not sure where your obsession comes from Rai, but Batman is already an idol of yours. Just like the original Bat-Mite worshipped Batman, you, this century's Bat-Mite, idolize the Dark Knight too! Every time we look for new t-shirts for you, you pick out the shirts with Batman on them. You'll have it no other way.
Even more strongly, you demand weekly that I visit the comic shop to pick up the latest issues of Batman comics. Will it ever be enough, Rai? I mean, we already have 3 long boxes full of Batman comics in our closet and hundreds (thousands?) more in Winnipeg but still, you want more. Hey, but if you in insist I keep buying these comic books for you, then I will. Anything for you, little Rai.