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The Bat Boy Archives

Knappster — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:26:24 -0800

In keeping with its mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," Google Books presents every issue of Weekly World News from 1981 to 2007. previously via

Bat Boy, RIP

Yakuman — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:54:20 -0800

Bye Bye, Bat Boy! The Weekly World News is suspending publication.

Ed Anger, R.I.P.

chicobangs — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:02:38 -0800

Eddie Clontz, longtime editor of the Weekly World News, creator of Ed Anger, Bat Boy and other semi-real totems of society's fuzzy underbelly, is dead at 56.

The fact that I had to find this out in The Economist, of all places, makes me madder than -- than -- than George S. Patton at a Peace Rally.

jcterminal — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 19:27:07 -0800

omg we're all going to die, which means the hurricanes, the war against terrorism, high school free speech... it's all a big nothing!

aaron — Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:16:34 -0800

So it's finally come down to this. E-content, 2002 style. Could there be any more conclusive proof that the dotcom era is over?

endquote — Tue, 04 Apr 2000 19:19:50 -0800

"It is already possible for an assassin to send someone an e-mail with an innocent-looking attachment connected to it. When the receiver downloads the attachment, the electrical current and molecular structure of the central processing unit is altered, causing it to blast apart like a large hand grenade."