This is Wedding Bells Are Ringin', a month-long examination of notable comic book weddings, since this is June, after all, and that's a time for weddings. I let you all vote and you voted for this feature to spotlight real AND fake weddings. I've decided, then, to only go with weddings that actually ended with marriages, whether dreams or not (in other words, everything but called off weddings).

Today, based on a suggestion by reader James T. (who suggested this whole feature), we look at how Batman and Batwoman's wedding did not work out well for Robin.

The whole thing went down in 1959's Batman #122 (by Bill Finger, Sheldon Moldoff and Ray Burnley), which opens with Bruce Wayne going out on a date with Kathy Kane, who Bruce and Dick Grayson both know is secretly Batwoman, while she does not know that Bruce and Dick are Batman and Robin.

Robin takes a nap and is waken by Bruce with the revelation that Bruce and Kate have gotten married!

Initially, they try to keep their secret identity from Kathy, even though that is insane, but she gets bored when she gets ditched by Bruce and Dick and she decides to head out as Batwoman again...

Batman is not happy about it, so he confronts her when she returns home...

He reveals the truth and shocks her by telling her that she has to retire as Batwoman now that they are married!

She ignores this, of course, and shows up at the next crime scene wearing one of Batman's spare costumes, but the outfit is too loose and she is exposed, thus ruining Batman's secret identity! Robin freaks out...

And of course, this all turns out to be a dream, but Bruce DOES seem like he WILL get married in the future, which is interesting to hear from Bruce...

What I like about this story is that it is specifically the dream of a kid worried about being pushed out of the only relationship he has in his life with his parents dead, and so the plot is sexist (with Batwoman being an incompetent moron), but it is coming from the mind of a stressed-out kid, so it's a lot more acceptable.

It's clever writing by Finger. And Moldoff and Burnley, of course, are strong as always.

Thanks to James for the suggestion! If people have a notable wedding that they'd like to see featured, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com.