The 15 Unintentionally Gayest Vintage Comic Book Panels Would Make Archie Blush

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Force Me Into What? http://www.gay.net/sites/gay.net/files/imagecache/slide-image/gc_13.jpg 10702

Wear Goggles Next Time http://www.gay.net/sites/gay.net/files/imagecache/slide-image/gc_12.jpg 10701

Batgirls' Night Out http://www.gay.net/sites/gay.net/files/imagecache/slide-image/gc_11.jpg 10700

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Golden Rain? http://www.gay.net/sites/gay.net/files/imagecache/slide-image/gc_8.jpg 10697

Leather Thong http://www.gay.net/sites/gay.net/files/imagecache/slide-image/gc_7.jpg 10696

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Because comic strips from the 1940s to the 1970s commonly used words like "gay" and "boner" as synonyms for happy and blunder, many single panels from that era (when taken out of context) made blogger Mitch O'Connell laugh with a guilty schoolyard titter.

He recently assembled so readers could join in the fun. We picked out 15 of the gayest—unsurprisingly, about half of them reveal the not so secret gay life of Batman and Robin (or Bruce and Dick, as it were).

"Some are cheap shots... panels taken completely out of context," O'Connell said, adding, "[but] sometimes [taken] completely IN context, [the panels take] on the relationship between the sexes from the viewpoints of the [era's] comic books writers and artists."