Really, ol’ chum, it’s better that you didn’t know.
As uncomfortable as you might be right now, do you really want to ask such questions? They’ll probably just tell you this outlandish story of how there’s a villain who calls himself The Outsider. Now this Outsider fellow, he’s quite a force to be reckoned with, what with his ability to turn copper into kryptonite or turn himself into a home-wrecking tornado. Unfortunately, Afred … he just happens to live in your body. One minute, you’re serving crumpets to The Boy Wonder. The next, you’re passed out on the floor of the Batcave, turning into this white-skinned, bald-headed super-villain who doesn’t wear a stitch of clothes. Darn the luck.
Naturally, the Man of Steel, the Caped Crusader and all their friends have to join forces to bring you — I mean, him — to justice. You’ve never known this, you see, because one of the side effects of defeating The Outsider — and he’s always defeated — is selective amnesia for his host. Of course.
So you see, Alfred, maybe you shouldn’t ask so many questions.
(Panel from DC Comics Presents #83, July 1985. Pencils by Irv Novick.)
