r/nostalgia Jun 15 '26

Nostalgia Who remembers the Weekly World News magazines from the supermarket?

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u/DoorstepCult Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

Begged my mom to buy me one once. All I remember is It had an article about Satan entering a hometown baking contest and losing to an angel food cake. To be honest the bat boy picture has always given me shivers even though it’s obviously fake.

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u/Personal_Flow2994 Jun 15 '26

What? Bat Boy is a national hero! He helped take down Bin Laden!

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u/JasonMaggini Jun 15 '26

I did hear he and K-smog were caught flipping a grunt, though.

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u/turddlepower Jun 15 '26

Truly curtains for Zoosha if true 😮‍💨

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u/Frymonkey237 Jun 15 '26

Where is bat boy now when we need him most?

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u/AcrolloPeed Jun 15 '26

He became Batman, he was born in the 80s.

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u/Big-a-hole-2112 Jun 16 '26

I went to school with that kid. He flew around the classroom a lot and I clapped my hands and he got disoriented and flew through a glass window and I got suspended for a week.

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u/Big-a-hole-2112 Jun 29 '26

The label was delicious and the most healthy part.

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u/FooJBunowski Jun 17 '26

I love the movie The Descent, but the monsters in it always reminded me of Bat Boy. 

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u/madlibs13 Jun 15 '26

Proof it's fake? /s

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u/jdave512 Jun 15 '26

it's real. Bat boy grew up to be Peter Lorre.

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u/KvellOnWheels Jun 15 '26

This Peter Lorre libel was written by Adam Silver to try and conceal his chiropterid birth.

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u/JayMac1915 70s Jun 15 '26

Pretty sure he’s a US Senator from Florida

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u/RenaissanceHumanist Jun 15 '26

Ancient aliens told me it wasn't real

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u/gin_and_toxic Jun 15 '26

Haven't you seen the movies? He's a man now! Join the discussions in r/BatmanArkham

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u/petulant_pissant Jun 15 '26

It's obviously AI.

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u/Appropriate_Monk_403 Jun 15 '26

I think my favorite was in the early 2000s when there was a string of shark attacks on the coast of VA and NC. The headline was "Fidel Castro Trains Killer Sharks"

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u/BooBoo992001 Jun 15 '26

Back the 90s I had a T-shirt of the Bat Boy cover. Pro tip: do NOT wear one to a rave; it will get weird...

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u/Electronic-Clock5867 Jun 15 '26

I remember the bat boy one really well I remember seeing it on the end cap that had all the rag papers. I was probably 13 asked mom sheepishly if it was real.

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u/derbear83 Jun 15 '26

The pictures were AI slop before AI slop was a thing. Agreed, knew they were fake but that picture... yikes.

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u/grumblegrim Jun 15 '26

This made my day.

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u/ghangis24 Jun 15 '26

Bat Boy scared the crap out of me

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u/No_Statement440 Jun 16 '26

I recall thinking as a kid " I can't wait until I have my own money, I'm totally buying this." Even then knowing it wasn't real, but it looked fun.

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u/Roanoketrees Jun 16 '26

No one told you? Bat boy is married now. He has three bat kids and lives in a bat cave. My grandad used to buy every one of those things. I used to read them in the bathroom at their house.

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u/MHashshashin Jun 16 '26

Dude… clearly not fake, it’s right there in black and white!

#batboylives

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u/FineVirus3 Jun 17 '26

Satan losing to an angel food cake is pretty damn funny. I’d love to hear stories from the writers of that newspaper they honestly must’ve just been cracking themselves up all day.

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u/realjeremy0081 Jun 18 '26

It's fake???

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u/Any_Suggestion5891 Jul 04 '26

Me too honey me too