Well, yes, Johnson didn’t want the Incredible Hulk to be seen as campy, but I doubt he had the Batman series in mind as they were a decade removed.
It should be noted that the ‘alliterative names’ thing for civilian names is less a ‘comic book’ thing than a Marvel thing. Supposedly a result of Stan Lee’s famously terrible memory.
Outside of Superman’s galaxy of LLs and Guy Gardner, I’m at a loss for a relatively major DC characters with alliterative names. Certainly there are some, but it’s not as much of a thing as it was for Stan-penned Marvel.
Another figure from the Silver Age was Mon-El, a Superboy analog from the planet Daxam.
Monel metal is a strong and corrosion-resistant nickle alloy and apparently was the actual source of the name, which seemed cool and scientific at the time.
Wally West.
Gorilla Grodd
John Jones.
Billy Batson - Libby Lawrence - Hector Hall - Shiera Sanders - Ronnie Raymond - Mari McCabe - Freddy Freeman - Cassandra Cain - Zatanna Zatara…
Daniel Dunbar, James Jesse, Rod Reilly, Scandal Savage, Hank Heywood, Darrel Dane, Sam Scudder, Richard Raleigh, Preston Payne, Dinah Drake, Mark Mardon, Sonia Sato…
Jenna Jameson, anyone?
Okay, admittedly I’m only an occasional comics reader, but the question was for “relatively major” characters. If we define “relatively major” as meaning someone I’ve heard of, then most of those fail.
Ace Archer, Blue Beetle, Capt. Comet, Dr. Death, Emerald Empress, Felix Faust, General Glory, Hector Hammond, …
It’s funny how many codenames are being listed as ‘civilian’ names, here.
You’re fudging. The Captain Marvel characters like Billy Batson and Freddy Freeman (not to mention Mary Marvel) were invented long before DC bought out Fawcett. Shiera Sanders, Hawkgirl, was an All-American character. They shouldn’t count in a list of what DC did.
They are evidence that Stan Lee was merely following a long tradition, though. I mean, J’onn J’onzz?!? Who wouldn’t want to imitate that?
Scandal Savage?
Vandal Savage’s daughter. Was one of the leads of Gail Simone’s Secret Six series.
May or may not exist under current continuity. (Kass Sage seems to fit into Savage’s timeline where Scandal would have.)
Or J’onn J’onzz, for that matter.
Well, one of the early English novelists, Tobias Smollett, writing around 1750, came up with The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle and The Adventures of Roderick Random. Charles Dickens wrote Nicholas Nickleby and had characters named “Tiny Tim.” So alliteration ain’t new.
J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter - any other heroes that alliterate in both identities? (Daredevil maybe, depends if you count it as one word or two)
Hmm. By that logic, I guess we also shouldn’t count, say, Eve Eden – but do we get to count, say, Dan Dreiberg toward what DC’s done?
Regardless, there’s Hank Hall and Boston Brand and Tom Tresser and Buddy Baker and Christopher Chance and Trey Thompson and Kathy Kane and Robby Reed and…
It’s a wide, wide Anglo-Saxon world.
Don’t forget Simon and Sapphire Stagg: two generations of alliteration.