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, in honor of the late, great Denny O'Neil (who we just lost earlier today), we take a look at the time that O'Neil had Batman and Talia Al-Ghul get married.

The story took place in DC Special Series #15, the same 1978 comic that had "Death Strikes at Midnight and Three," which I discussed earlier tonight.

It's by O'Neil and artists Michael Golden and Dick Giordano. Man, early Michael Golden really blew people out of the water, right?

Things kick off when Batman heads back to the Batcave to work out a little bit and he is shocked to find a punching bag filled with knockout gag (I must say, though, that it is pretty weird that Batman missed that Alfred was knocked out and tied up)...

He wakes up and finds out that he is now MARRIED TO TALIA AL-GHUL!!!

They are flat out married! It's not an engagement or whatever, they're flat out married!

Batman, cleverly, decides to act like he's down with the marriage, or at least the chance to have sex with Talia. Ra's seems totally cool with this plan...

But Batman, of course, is feigning interest and he actually knocks out Talia...

He escapes back to Gotham City and then prepares himself for Ra's and his crew and their plan. He stops their plot, but they escape. Batman tracks them to the ship that they're using to escape, but Batman is dazed by some more gas and about to be shot when Talia instead shoots her father's man to save her husband...

But then she leaves Batman to stick with her father...

Mike W. Barr later picked up on this marriage in his classic Son of the Demon story (where Batman and Talia finally consummate the marriage and Talia has a kid).

Okay, folks, if you can think of a notable wedding that you'd like to see featured, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com.