Korak Faces the Bats

Korak vs. Batman by st00pz

Korak vs. Batman 2 by st00pz

Korak vs. Batman 3 by st00pz

Korak vs. Batman 4 by st00pz

Korak is the Honorable Jack Clayton, son of English Lord John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke, also known as Tarzan, lord of the jungle.  He is the hero of a 1915/6 magazine serial and 1917 novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and a 1920 silent movie serial, as well as a character in several other Tarzan stories from 1914 to 1924.  He experienced a revival in 1964 as the star of his own comic book series and as a major character in various Tarzan comic books, pages, and strips from 1966 to 1978.

Batman is the vigilante crime-fighting alias of millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne.  Also known as the Caped Crusader, he starred in his own DC comic book series since 1939, a popular 1966 television series on ABC, and various blockbuster films, starting in 1989.  He was a founding member of the Justice League.

Korak strives to emulate the heroics of his legendary father but lacks his strength, maturity and experience.  Therefore, he is more likely to enter into dangerous situations and more vulnerable to being defeated.

Most of the Justice League is growing tired of the eager, young son of Tarzan testing his boundaries as a hero, trying to compete with the superheroes, and becoming an irritating waste of their time and energy.  

Batman decides to accept Korak's challenge because he frankly wants to teach the jungle boy a lesson in preparing for fights more carefully.  Against the stronger, tougher, and more experienced Caped Crusader, armed with various gadgets in his utility belt, the handsome, athletic son of Tarzan arrives only with his youthful enthusiasm, speed, and endurance, as well as his beautiful, bare muscles, which are perfect for target practice for his opponent.

The four-picture series "Korak vs. Batman by st00pz" was commissioned from an artist through DeviantART in 2018.  Although he does not want to hurt the young hero, the Caped Crusader does enjoy the prospect of stunning the bewildered jungle boy with a taser and then applying a sleeper hold against the son of Tarzan's warm body, feeling him writhing and twisting under his firm grip as the youth gradually realizes that he came into this fight unprepared and will soon be at his opponent's mercy.

Batman will then be keeping the jungle boy in the Bat Cave over the weekend to teach him the consequences of defeat.  In the real world, against a serious opponent, such poor choices can be fatal for a young hero, and good intentions will not help.  

This series is meant to be a representation of the inability of traditional heroes to complete in the superhero era in terms of popularity and commercial success.

These pictures are fan art and intended to raise interest in and appreciation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs character Korak.  Batman is a reluctant sparring partner.  These are original scenes and did not appear in any comic book, page, or strip.

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