• "It was quite a boner!" 
• "Stung by his boner, Joker lashes back!" 
• "Batman will make the boner of the year" 
• "What does he mean, Bruce? How can he force you into a boner?" 
• "I'm worried about the boner he's preparing for you." 
• "Batman's greatest boner!" 

 
That is seriously wierd

Interesting. Amazing what Batman's comics were like 59 years ago. 

LULZ XD

Wasn't "Boner", Mike Seaver's  best friend on Growing Pains?

The timing matters... checking the Etymology Dictionary: 
 
boner.
"blunder," 1912, baseball slang, probably from bonehead. Meaning "erect penis" is 1950s, from earlier bone-on (1940s), probably a variation (with connection notion of "hardness") of hard-on (1893). 
 
So a story from 1951 would be either before the prurient meaning or at least early in its history making it a slightly more subtle joke than it would be today, relying on a meaning that had not made it into the lexicon of most.

"  That is seriously wierd "

" The timing matters... checking the Etymology Dictionary: 
 
boner.
"blunder," 1912, baseball slang, probably from bonehead. Meaning "erect penis" is 1950s, from earlier bone-on (1940s), probably a variation (with connection notion of "hardness") of hard-on (1893).  So a story from 1951 would be either before the prurient meaning or at least early in its history making it a slightly more subtle joke than it would be today, relying on a meaning that had not made it into the lexicon of most. "

Linkara (of thatguywiththeglasses.com fame) just recently mentioned this issue in his Atop the 4th Wall: Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review video.  His reasoning was he figured people just wanted him to say boner a bunch of times, and that the comic wasn't any sillier than the majority of silver age comics. 
 He then proceeded to say boner about 20 times, as well as "erect penis".

I understand why the use of the word boner seems normal... I mean it was so many years ago, but I still find it... disturbing!

That is seriously hilarious! :D

come on, this joke has been online forever. 

O_O

"force you into a boner"

I died laughing at that!

regardless of what it means, using those lines out of context must be a great conversation starter.  "Say have you heard the story about Batman's greatest boner?"

 "I'm worried about the boner he's preparing for you."
 
Lmao.

Hehe boners :P

lol, just an old expression. Captain Hindsight says they should of used a different word.

Wow...Just....wow 

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha... ahem must be mature about this sort of thing (stiffled snigger)

WHY SILVER AGE?! WHY!! 
>facepalm<

This article gave me a boner. No, wait. This article is a boner? How are we supposed to use the word?

It's just like when I used to read the early stories of the Justice League of America and there were stories that included Martian Manhunter using "gay" for "happy" and "queer" for "weird."

Actually, guys, at this point in history people were using "boner" as slang for an erect penis. It merely wasn't as commonplace as the use of it to mean a mistake. The more common slang between the 1910s and 1950s were "bone on" and "hard on" believe it or not.

this would have been funnier if Babs wrote the article.

" lol, just an old expression. Captain Hindsight says they should of used a different word. "

WTF

I think the hot for words chick did a video on this.

Did they explain on continuity or an Elseworlds comic that Batman and the Joker came to some sort of truce for a while where Joker wasn't killing people?  (I think referring to the era of wacky pranks and giant props).

 Way too funny some of those lines in the story. These old Batman stoires just keep getting weirder and weirder

This would have been so much funnier if jokers plan to force batman into a boner had somehow involved robin.

This made my day.

" Did they explain on continuity or an Elseworlds comic that Batman and the Joker came to some sort of truce for a while where Joker wasn't killing people?  (I think referring to the era of wacky pranks and giant props). "

Coincidentally "erectile dysfunction" during the 1950's referred to the act of sabotaging a newly completed skyscraper, Viagra was a popular television show, and male genitalia was a thing of the past... oh the 50's. Why did we ever leave you?

I love how the cover is of a Joker totem pole.

Wizard Magazine covered this a long time ago.

hahahahaha "How can he force you into a boner?!"