Capes On The Couch - Where Comics Need Counseling

Flip a coin - heads, you listen to us analyze Two-Face. Tails, you listen to us analyze Harvey Dent. Either way, you're getting a realistic discussion of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. SHOW NOTES: Intro Mentioned in Podcast Magazine - “Under the Radar” section TeePublic sale - Nov. 4-6, 11-13, 17-20, 26-27, 29-30 Background (4:45) Two-Face (Harvey Dent) created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane in Detective Comics #66 (August 1942) In his first appearance, he's Harvey Kent, later renamed to avoid confusion with Superman  He's an attorney who gets acid thrown in his face during cross examination, and chooses to embrace the duality of his appearance - uses a coin flip to determine his actions "Cured" due to plastic surgery   Crisis reinvented his past - grew up with abusive father, who would flip a coin to determine whether to beat him   Diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, but he worked through them to become DA in Gotham - worked as an ally of Batman and Gordon, until he was attack