Phantom Stranger started out wearing a shirt and tie and a black trench coat, before changing to the white turtle neck, medallion and cape look. In the last twenty years he’s tended to swap back and forth depending on who’s writing/drawing him.
He seems to have several different hats, too.
Doctor Doom.
Although he needs to.
Phantom Stranger is a good one. He’s been around since the 50s, believe it or not.
The Question: He was always in a business suit in the Ditko days, but when Denny O’Neil got ahold of him, he was as likely to show up in a baseball cap and biker jacket as his Brooks Brothers duds.
Dr. Doom: Look at his first appearance again. No cape. His classic appearance wasn’t codified until his second or third appearance. Simonson tried to update his armor a bit, as did Claremont and LaRocca (when Reed was impersonating him for about a year, a storyline nobody but me seemed to enjoy). Another artist tried to give him a leather mask. In his most recent appearances (FF, Avengers:The Children’s Crusade), he wore a white cloak and tunic.
Damn it Bosda! Dr. Doom was the first to come to my mind!
As a reader of indie or small company comics I’d also throw out The Elementals from the Comico title. I don’t remember there being any costume change with nearly all of the characters featured in that title.
Doctor Solar, the Man of The Atom didn’t even wear a costume at first. Since he started wearing one, I don’t believe it has changed.
Did Spider-Man 2099 ever change his costume? I don’t recall it happening, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t.
Just the black one mentioned previously, and I think that counts.
Ctrl-f doesn’t bring up any previous uses of 2099 in this thread before my post, so are you thinking of regular Spider-Man? He’s not the same guy. Also regular Spider-Man’s had more costume changes than just the black one. Does no one remember the red & gold “Iron Spider” one from just a few years ago anymore?
I’m sorry?
I’m niot sure it counts as a costume alteration, but in his first appearance in FF#5 you could very clearly see a metal headpiece covering the top of his head behind the mask. In subsequent appearances, that metal headpiece over the top of is head isn’t in evidence, and even a couple of dozen issues later Doom simply seems to have a face plate, with no other metal covering his head (you can se his hair in silhouette when he’s unmasked)
BMalion is referring to regular Spider-Man, wearing the symbiote suit (the one that later became Venom). TBG thought that BMalion was referring to Spider-Man 2099, who is a different character. Does that clear things up on both sides?
Spiderman 2099 might be a winner.
The Human Torch. When has flamed on.
Thank you, Chronos, I have never heard of Spider-Man 2099.
Not true. In FF#! Johnny Storm looked completely different – like a vaguely human-shaped flame, rather than the parallel-lines-covering-his-body firebrand – than he did only a dozen or so issues later. It was so striking a difference that , when they reproduced the first few pages of FF#1 in their first Annual in 1963 they felt compelled to redraw the Human Torch for it. They didn’t redraw The Thing, even though his appearance had changed from a sloppy rock-like Kirby Monster to “guy covered in pieces of broken flowerpots”.
And, of course, his appearance has altered as new artists depicted him, especially in recent years.
As for the original Human Torch, his appearance on the cover of the first issue of Marvel Tales is different from his appearance inside (an on subsequent covers), and he looked even more different when Marvel revived him in FF ANNual #4. And his flame-off costume changed quite a bit over the years.
Comparison of Human Torch appearance in FF#! and in FF Annual #1:
Appearance on recent cover:
I 'm not sure different artists interpretations of the same costume/effect would count.
I didn’t see a lot of variation in the images of Etrigan the Demon. Recent depictions look similar to the way I remember him.
How about if they’re the same artist? Jack Kirby drew them both.
And I don’t think it’s because he wanted to hide Naughty Bits from the CCA.
The same artist decided to draw the same effect differently.
And speaking of the king’s other creations, I don’t believe Darkseid has changed, has he?