He had two other girlfriends with the initials LL during the Silver Age, though one was the Superwoman of a different solar system so she could have handled it as well. Don’t remember the names off hand, just the initials.
The entire output of Charlton Comics was low rent. They had some talented artists, but paid so badly that they all soon left them for DC or Marvel. As for the characters, there were Mr. Muscles, Nature Boy, the Fightin’ Five, Thunderbunny, and Zaza the Mystic, among others.
Charlton’s slogan, “Charlton Comics Give You More” was a punchline. Charlton gave up superhero comics around 1970 and ended up selling most of their characters to DC (best known: The Blue Beetle).
Oh, and J’onn J’onzz did have his own stories in the 1950s and 60s, as a regular supporting feature in Detective Comics.
J’onn also had his own title in the 90s, and a miniseries a couple years back. He’s also one of the main characters in the current Stormwatch book. Which, I guess some people might consider a downgrade from the JLA, but…
Well, it’s supposed to be a spoof. In fact, from my limited exposure to the comic, the concept is actually rather funny: an obese adolescent who wears a perpetual deadpan expression turns out to have a number of special powers than enable him to save the world on numerous occasions with the knowledge of nobody else but him. That’s not a bad idea for a deconstruction of superhero tropes.
Didn’t they also have the Question and Captain Atom?
Weird War Tales was a compilation comics with horror stories or your usual tales of heavy-handed comicbook irony. I used to read it regularly.
Around the time I was outgrowing comics they started using recurring characters. One of these was G.I. Robot, who I was going to make smart comments about but the Wikipedia description of his debut does the job:
A functional android in 1944? Bah, that’s nothing, you should see the giant Nazi on Dinosaur Island.
It wasn’t long after that that the Creature Commandos came along. This was a platoon with a werewolf, a vampire, a Universal Studios Frankenstein, and a chick with snakes for hair. Anybody see a problem with this? Actually, the Project M backstory isn’t that far off from the Hellboy backstory, so DC could’ve had something decent, provided decent writers. They didn’t have any. “Gee, I wonder what Frank will say about this recent development. Will it be ‘YAARGH’ or ‘ARGH’?”
Plus–He’s Alan Moore’s favorite!:
How could I forget Section 8
A team of 8 insane would-be superheros with low-grade superpowers, or very strange fighting styles.
Dogwelder: A man whose fighting style consists of spot-welding dogs to his enemy’s faces.
The Defenestrator : His fighting style consists of throwing his enemies through the nearest window. He carries a window around with him for the purpose.
Friendly Fire : He can fire heat blasts from his hands, but usually hits his own team-mates.
and the rest.
I’m going to dig deep to way back in the golden age and bring out Madame Fatal, a dude whose “power” was dressing up as an old lady and punching people.
ETA: He also hit people with his old lady cane. I forgot about the cane.
How about Chester Brown?
Sounds like a beta version of the Frenchman from The Boys, another Ennis book.
Captain Marvel.
My favorite has beens are The Inferior Five.
The Mighty Samson, if he wore an eyepatch.
I also loved the original Lost In Space, predating the TV show.
I also loved the backup feature in Doctor Solar, Man Of The Atom, the old professor who lectured us on science.
I think you’re talking about Kamandi.
That was, hands down, the worst thing I ever paid money to be exposed to. I remember vividly that one of the “heroes” the magic dials conjured up was straight out of the Mighty Men and Monster Maker.
the Micronauts (which was actually a fun comic book with good art and an interesting universe backstory.)
I actually read all of them as a kid.
He said nothing about talking animals.
Man, that was an awesome comic. Almost up to the coolness of the toys. I’ve pondered buying the omnibus, but haven’t been willing to pony up $299.99, yet.
(Dial “H” for Hero - the 80s years)
Wow. I just read the Wikipedia page. Even for comics, that’s a pretty fucked up storyline.