Worst joke in GR?

[Nigel E. Richardson]

Just started rereading Gravity's Rainbow for the first time in a couple
of years, and on page 11 of the UK Picador edition, I noticed a truly
awful joke I'd previously missed:

"He's driven out, away, east over Vauxhall Bridge in a dented 
green Lagonda by his batman, a Corporal Wayne."

Is this a one-off, or yet another source for names in GR, the alter-egos of
comic book characters? 

Nigel E. Richardson

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Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and your sob probes...
http://turnpike.net/metro/N/ner/index.html - is that photo meant to be ironic?
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