Moebius sends Batman to the shrink for Penthouse Comix, 1995

The page says Jean Giraud, known as Moebius, rarely worked in superheroes, but he did draw characters like Superman, Wolverine, and Iron Man. It then focuses on a Batman parody that DC rejected and that later ran in Penthouse Comix in 1995, with Derf Backderf retelling the story on Twitter.

Reading notes

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• Moebius did not usually work deeply in the superhero genre, though he made work involving Superman, Wolverine, and Iron Man.
• Derf Backderf shared the story of Moebius’s unusual Batman parody with his Twitter followers.
• Moebius had taken a Batman concept to DC, and DC rejected it.
• The story was published in Penthouse Comix, a magazine that ran for 32 issues and had a high creep factor, according to Derf.
• The comic used multiple titles and disclaimers to make clear that the character was not Batman, even while the images clearly evoked him.
• In the story, the hero confronts a jewel thief in the supertherapist’s office and is pushed toward an encounter with his own mother, described as resembling Freud’s primal scene.