On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 7:21:03 PM UTC-4, George Grattan wrote:
RacerX wrote:
No one's mentioned Simonson's Manhunter yet??? Sheesh....
I know, I know. The fact that I left him off my initial list of 50
almost kills the fun of this for me, too. :-)
But I did mention him subsequently, and he would have to be a special
entry, anyway, due to having been created in the Golden Age. But I think
he deserves a mention on any eventual list.
Goodwin & Simonson's Manhunter! Mustn't forget the late,
great Archie Goodwin, who thunk up the idea of putting the
brightly garbed adventurer in the back pages of DETECTIVE.
It was easy to talk the editor into it. That was Archie, too.
The 70s Manhunter in `TEC was, once he teamed up with JLA-member
"The Batman," a heretofore unseen Earth-One Paul Kirk, so, isn't
he as much a "new character" as Barry (Flash) Allen or Hal (Green
Lantern) Jordan were in the mid-late 50s? The addition of the
healing factor, before Wolverine (but after Captain America in
Ted White's prose paperback novel, "The Great Gold Steal,")
makes MH-II superpowered in a way the original never was.
Other E-2 )or wherever) to E-1 (or Earth-B) transplants, such as
The Spectre, Greg (The Vigilante) Sanders, Ted (Wildcat) Grant,
Plastic Man, etc.
https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-171/2/
And folks, The Phantom Stranger debuted in his own magazine in
1952! That's pre-code,
https://www.comics.org/issue/9822/cover/4/
PS was revived with an appearance in SHOWCASE #80, with a cool
Adams cover....
https://www.comics.org/issue/22510/cover/4/ Feb `69, released
at the end of 1968. The follow-on series didn't have new
stories until the 4th issue.
https://www.comics.org/issue/23082/cover/4/
I would still peg the PS revival as a Bronze Age phenomenon,
as much as the return of spookiness to THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY
and the other Code-friendly horror anthologies - the
"mystery comics," as they were known - was.
One of the FIRST ISSUE SPECIAL one-shots, featuring the
Kirby-created Mark Shaw version of MANHUNTER had a
delayed effect, when Steve Engelhart re-introduced him
into his JLA stories, and tied the Manhunter cult into
the Green Lantern mythos. A one-shot revival on the order
of the JSA counterparts of the 50s and 60s morphed into
a major group of villains.
BTW, I LOVED Ditko's shade, and just as I critique the O'Neil-
written stories starring his Question-impostor, I see the
Milligan Shade as a totally different character.
The Parasite first appeared in ACTION COMICS V1 #340, in 1966.
https://www.comics.org/issue/20227/cover/4/
The 70s also had DC publishing prominent licensed properties,
such as Captain Marvel and Family in SHAZAM! and the Edgar
Rice Burroughs characters: Tarzan, Korak, John Carter of Mars,
etc.
Let's not forget the mighty Isis!
Kevin R
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