Obscure Golden Age Heroes

Little Miss Redhead gives me Blue Boys.

But awesome thread, I love obscure characters.

 

Dan the Dyna-mite was that poor guy who [blackout]Got his body stolen by the Ultra-Humanite so he could make Hitler the most powerful being on the planet in Golden Age[/blackout]

 

The King, AKA King Standish, Master of Disguise, so good that he can fool the families of those he disguises himself as. First a crimefighter with the Green Hornet approach of claiming to be a criminal, later on a member of the OSS:





http://www.toonopedia.com/theking.htm

 

He sounds prety fab actually

That damn dirty ape

 

Larry Jordon father of Harold (Hal) Jordon.... cousin of Hal Jordon.... isn't that confusing...

 

I thought he was just his cousin.

 

The first Airwave was Larry Jordan who had a child with Helen Jordan and named him Harold, which happened to be the same name as his cousin who would go on to be Green Lantern. Harold became Airwave when he grew up.

 

Hop Harrigan. He had his own Radio Series and Movie Serial in 1940's.

 

I can see why some of these heroes didn't make the cut. A few I could see making a come back if they reworked the designs. Probably not the blue guy though.

 

One of the more prominent heroes of his day not that could have been a DC hero, the Black Terror, first appearing in Exciting Comics #9 (May 1941, Nedor Comics):

 

Black Terror now features in Dynamite comics Project Superpowers, which on the whole I like.

 

Even more obscure, the Duke of Darkness from Triple Threat Comics (Winter, 1945):

 

That looks an interesting concept.

 

This public domain superheroes wiki may be of interest

Comic Book Characters

 

Did anyone here ever read Centaur Chronicles ? There's a revival of all those Golden age heroes. It's actually quite cool. Some are really templates of the current big ones, or so I find.

 

I've not heard of Centaur Chronicles (the only CC that I can find online is a fantasy-romance series of novels involving actual centaurs!). Who's it published by?


Edit: Okay, found a couple of images and it looks like it's a French comic. Do you know if there have been any English language editions?

 

Him and The Shadow are why I started buying Dynamite.

 

Dynamite are probably my second favourite comics publisher after DC I really like most of the Project Superpowers stuff that I've read so far - especially some of the solo tie-ins. And I'm a b-i-i-i-g Vampirella fan (have been since her days at Warren)

 

I'm still holding out hope Conan goes to them someday or back to Dark Horse. I do not like what Marvel has done with him.

 

I like what I've seen of their take on Red Sonja in their company crossovers Prophecy and Swords of Sorrow (and there's a Vampirella/Red Sonja team-up running atm that I'm trade-waiting on), although I haven't read any of her actual solo stuff with them. Could be interesting if they get Conan as well.

 

I contacted the publisher because I had not the response for you. Now I have it. They'll launch a kickstarter campaign just after summer for the english version, available then.
It's quite cool actually because there are old and new art in it and the new story bring something fresh. I hope this helps.

Back on topic, I love how Dynamite happens to have crzay ideas or maybe just fanboys ideas and make it happen.