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Is it too late to make this a Lady Satan thread?
She does have remarkable eyes
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Anyone got an idea for Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters?
>yeah, eat pitchfork you fucking crone! you're the best, Lady Satan!
Uncle Sam should be an NSA agent and the Freedom Fighters like hackers and weirdos in some crime show. It's never worked as a superhero team but the heart of the group is so complex and would really shine in a realistic story.
Can Doll Man change the size of his penis or just his whole body?
He can only make himself smaller so it's between:
>be a manlet with a big penis
>be a big guy with an average penis
His whole body at will. But his penis has the strength of a regular penis.
Doesn't he only shrink anyway?
He can't make his penis smaller so it would still be an average penis on a manlet. Are you fucking high?
>Human Bomb
Roy Lincoln's origin is just like in Police Comics. He's a chemist helping his genius father develop a chemical explosive to help the war effort, dad only manages to make a vial of it, and then Nazis suddenly storm in.
For a shared universe I'm thinking about combining all these "develop a plot device, suddenly Nazi spies" origins into one big Manhattan Project esque thing that gets blown by Nazi spies.
So to prevent the Nazis from getting the formula he drinks it, and becomes the Human Bomb.
Roy was never as smart as his father, and though he tries he can't replicate the formula and he can't find out how to cure himself. Reckless to an almost suicidal degree Roy throws himself into battle against the Axis blaming them not only for his father and the loss of his father's greatest invention but for turning him into a freak. He develops a close friendship with The Ray whose energy power allows him to siphon off Roy's excess energy and keep him from feeling the incredible pain his powers bring, for a time. Ray also helps to curb Roy's rage and anger.
In the original comics Roy's powers were to make anything explode if he touched them. Here his powers are unstable and constantly mutating. Sometimes he blows things up if he touches them. Sometimes he emits waves of energy. Sometimes can make things vibrationally unstable so that if they move too much they explode.
Eventually Roy finds that he can change his powerset at will by exploding and reforming himself
One storyline consists of Roy being offered the chance by Allied command to end the war by teleporting him on a suicide mission in the heart of Tokyo and Ray talking him out of it, not only because it would kill him but because it would mean the deaths of countless Japanese civilians.
In the 1960's following the deaths of his pal The Ray and others he fought the war alongside Roy's impulsive temperament gets the best of him and he volunteers for NASA experiments into deep space and other dimensions. Completely indestructible Roy is the ultimate guinea pig.
And he doesn't mind the intense loneliness.
On one mission he's picked up by Star Trek esque energy aliens who confuse him for one of their infants. The experience, while incredibly strange, was a good one for Roy. He was adopted by a race he couldn't hurt and brought to a world he couldn't destroy. They changed him, helped him mater his powers, and a decade later Roy returned to Earth a changed man.
Now completely made out of energy and comfortable as energy Roy's upgrades his bomb disposal outfit to a 1970's sci-fi inspired space suit with a helmet full of energy lights. Roy renames himself the Human Star and works as a diplomat between earthlings and energy-based aliens as part of the superhuman exploration team ARGO.
Stars are just little cosmic explosions after all, right?
Anyone got any good ideas for bad guys?
Human Bomb is criminally underappreciated. This is a brilliant direction that very much honors the spirit of the character
For Human-Bomb? Let's see...
>Hiroshima Shadow
>Japanese spy that was exploded into 2nd dimension by the Human-Bomb
>like a shadow that moves around and does evil?
>uses abilities and ninja training for espionage/assassinations
>seeks revenge
Not my best idea now that I read it. It's all for the sake of the insensitive pun, really.
So how good is Remarkable in the awesome scale? The word itself gives me the feel of how you would describe an athlete but in old timey comics they use the word to describe superman and fucking Stardust of all people.
What if we had the original superman act as some ultimate villain. Someone who everyone has tangled with in this new shared universe. In this new origin the potion that granted Bill Dunn telepathy never expired. It's effects were permanent. Thusly he has remained immortal,kept locked away in a specially designed jail cell underneath Alcatraz Island. Think of an evil Prof X who is a little more dull and not as clever.
>Magician from Mars
Two centuries into the future, Jane "Gem" Faro was the daughter of Martian scientist. Sadly for Jane, much of Martian society had slowly become little more than a cult to herald the arrival from of being from beyond the stars who, legend had foretold, would bring the Martians into an ascended state of existence with the being. Unfortunately for Jane, she was little more than a piece of that prophecy whose own awakening would herald the being's arrival.
At the age of thirteen her powers began to awake and through her the being was able to exert its will onto the universe. The Martian prophecy came true in a sense as Jane, the being's vessel, killed the Martian population absoring into herself the very essence of the people who had lived there. In a hunger for more souls and more power, she made her way to the moon but the being's control over her was shattered away from Mars. Taken in by the Moon's top scientist, a young woman named Mysta, Jane spent the next few years trying to understand herself.
One thing became clear: the being's attempted entrance into the universe had triggered something very wrong. In the farthest reaches of the universe things had started becoming unstable. Stars were extinguished, galaxies went dark. A crack for the extra-universal beings had been created and the dam was starting to burst. The universe, perhaps even reality itself, were starting to unravel.
Jane slowly developed not only strength greater than any known being but a deep connection to the very cosmos themselves that allowed her to bend, break and change the rules of reality. Feeling responsibility for the possibly coming cosmic collapse, armed with these abilities, the combined knowledge of the Martians and joined by her mentor Mysta, Jane sets off on a universal journey. Her name long forgotten, she is simply the Magician from Mars, scion of a dead world.
>The Ray
The continuity of the Ray was loose, as was his powers. In the first story its not really clear what the Ray is. At first he seems to be something created out of Ray Terrill when he got caught between unfiltered high atmosphere sunlight and a lightning bolt, he even says that Ray Terrill is dead and that there is only the Ray now, but later stories had him just be Ray Terrill.
This Ray is going to be something created out of Ray Terrill when a freak electrical blast caused particles of an invisible high atmosphere hyperfauna (as per Charles Fort, Arthur Conan Doyle's 1916 short story The Horror of the Heights, and the Crawfordsville Monster) to fuse with his thought patterns.
The Ray is under no illusions about what he is. He buried what little remained of Ray Terrill's body. But he's vowed that though death and loss marked his birth his life would be marked by a flourishing a life.
The Ray is a bright, sunny creature. He's often on the front lines with his pal the Human Bomb, but while the Human Bomb's recklessness is fueled by anger and self-loathing the Ray's recklessness is fueled by a desire to protect people and save as many lives as he can by bringing WW2 to a swift end.
The Ray can use his powers to heal, and he's as often a medic on the frontlines as he is fighter. He's often paired with the Human Bomb not only because their energy powers compliment each other but because he can curb the Human Bomb's aggressive tendencies. The Ray is the only one besides Uncle Sam that the Human Bomb will listen to.
The Ray was on the Spectro led superteam that subdued Stardust the super wizard, his numerous ray powers serving as counters to Stardust's own rays. He was also the superhuman that subdued the Japanese Goddess Amaterasu, both by overpowering her and convincing her that she was being used by the Japanese government who only loved and respected her as a weapon (metaphor for how Imperial Japan treated Japanese religion and folklore).
That's kinda the charm of it, in my opinion. It's a totally underwhelming description, just like Stardust traveling at "terrific speeds", so it just makes it all the funnier in context. Although admittedly Fletcher definitely could've benefitted from a thesaurus.
Samefagging, essentially a combination of moody, existential introspection from an all-powerful being combined with cosmic (literally in this case) horror.
The Ray never took residence on the ground, feeling most comfortable among the clouds in castle built from clouds and light. Eventually this castle would come to house a hyperfauna and weather research station called Terrill Base.
The Ray has a natural rapport with Earth's hyperfauna and keeps a "herd" of them that sometimes assisted him in battle. There's nothing like a couple of living thunderstorms and animated beams of sunlight to fight against Japanese Oni armies.
Eventually the Ray would meet his end in the 1950's saving the galaxy from Konsume the Living Black Hole.
God damn yes that costume is excellent that character should exist
>feeling most comfortable among the clouds in castle built from clouds and light.
This is beautiful.
It's pretty rad
Thank you both. I'm working hard with others to update the public domain heroes. I got an (incomplete and on hiatus) text story about Daredevil up at the Capeworld website.capeworldcomics.com
Presto the kid seems like a fun character we should revive. He's a magic cowboy.
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>fights native american spirits
>arch nemesis is a snake oil salesman
>saloon whores love him
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Basically Lucy but cheesy enoug for the concept to be endearing.
>Captain Blue
Look at this guy. I love pirates that go all out on the pirate stereotype. To update him we change him from a sea pirate to a sky pirate mercenary. His fleet solidify hyperfauna, transforming them into invisible and undetectable floating islands and then selling them to the Axis or the Allies, whoever pays them the most.
With the birth of the Ray their operation is in danger. The Ray can solidify hyperfauna, being that he's part hyperfauna himself, and he's ruining Captain Blue's monopoly
It takes balls to try assassinating a guy made of light. But Captain Blue is gutsy as hell.
Captain Blue even has his own faceless mook army. And if I find any other interesting bad guys in the Ray's Smash comics appearances I'll probably place them as his mercenary army lieutenants.
Should we dip our toes into the open source pool? I was flipping through a few and they seem rather fun.
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>Girl Commandos
Pat Parker is a high junior working a summer job at Camp Elgin, a summer camp for girls, as a counselor and clinic assistant. Tragedy strikes however when an attack occurs on the camp and a bomb is set. However the bomb is not a simple explosive but a device that uses temporal energy, the result transporting large portions of the camp into the future.
The future, however, is a hellish ruin destroyed by war and disaster. Banded together by a desire to survive and find a way home, they hear rumors of an oasis of civilization. Together they trek through the wastes, walking through Hell in an attempt to find Nuova Paradiso. A group of Girl Commandos searching for reason in an unreasonable world.
Well hello there. Why are girls with guns so perfect bros?
There's tons of jungle queen characters in the public domain, even Sheena. How would you revive them?
If you can look up their appearances from Speed Comics they're actually pretty good for shlocky Golden Age war comics. Drawn (and written?) by a woman which seems like a rare thing for that time period too.
Jungle continent (i.e. the Savage Land as an entire continent or something). Massive crossover between the various jungle queen characters as rulers of their own domains, kingdoms (queendoms?), duchies and other political entities. Lots of jungle style political and military action, alliances, backstabbing, etc. A jungle version of the Thirty Years' War.
Also the occasional gorilla-man, jungle priest and panther demon.
The Ray had a kid sidekick named Bud (kid sidekicks were incredibly common in the golden age). I the update he's one of Captain Blue's child soldiers, a war orphan who along with other war orphans is rescued by The Ray who adopts them to help him run Terrill Base in his castle of light and clouds.
Bud is perhaps the saddest of the war orphans, not even having a name besides his nickname Bud. Bud believes himself worthless, because that's all the mercenaries that raised him told him. But the Ray recognizes that Budd is a bright boy and educates him as best he can.
Bud grows up to become the Ray II after the Ray dies fighting Konsume the living Black Hole. A brilliant scientist Bud replicates the powers of the original Ray through a light projecting ring and like the original Ray commands a herd of hyperfauna pets.
Some pulp mystery men in an experimental plane crash into a Lost World stuck between worlds and their daughters become the the various jungle queen characters that rule over their own domains?
>Continent
Kinda har to explain how a whole continent is hidden, especially in a time with airplanes.
How about ye old hollow earth? With entrances on the amazonian forest, darkest Africa, the North Pole, and some random pacific island, it doesn't matter where they got lost they end up in the hollow earth where it's all jungle all the time, with the occasional dinosaur and societies formed by aztecs, lost roman legions, and other groups.
Also why only jungle queens? Are there no jungle kings? No Tarzan wanna-bes? Mabe the man himself, is Tarzan public domain?
Hollow Earth or just Bermuda Triangle esque pocket dimension.
There can be jungle kings of course. But I imagine there's more appeal in watching jungle queens engage in scantly clad hand to hand duels over realpolitik than jungle kings.
The trick will be in making each jungle girl/king distinct since 99 percent of the time they're basically the same exact character.
>But I imagine there's more appeal in watching jungle queens engage in scantly clad hand to hand duels over realpolitik than jungle kings.
Pretty much. You can either get Tarzan or Tarzan in a leopard bikini.
In all honesty Jungle Kangz/Kwaynze shit just a dull genre in general though.
>Bozo the Iron Man
The original Bozo was a tool used by hard boiled detective Hugh Hazzard who claimed Bozo from his mad scientist creator. Hugh was able to both remotely control Bozo and pilot it from the inside like a suit of armor.
When war broke out the US military used Bozo as the basis for a mass produced Bozo army.
Hollow Bozos were like the original Bozo and were used for a variety of purposes from transporting weapons and equipment to seeking out and evacuating wounded soldiers to providing additional protection to soldiers as armor. They were even used as anti-superhuman weapons that tracked down enemies and imprisoned them like Iron Maidens. They were of particular use to the Black Terror Squadron. Even though they provided negligible protection for the already super-durable Terrors they were skilled at seeking at and evacuating wounded Terrors from the field.
Solid Bozos replaced the hollow center and life support equipment with additional weapons, armor, and engines.
Under the MacArthur plan Bozos were re-purposed as industrial equipment for the rebuilding of Japan and inspired Japanese engineers to look toward robotics to replace their depleted superhuman population.
In Japan Bozos were known as Iron Priests due to the similarity of the word Bozo to the Japanese word Bozu.
It really, really is and I say that as a fan.
ERB Tarzan still holds up but oh god has it been a flatline ever since then. Jungle Adventures is a duller, deader genre than zombies.
Which is why I'm hoping "Jungle Queen Realpolitik in a world of dinosaurs and mysterious alien ruins" can breathe a little life into it.
Maybe there's racial tension between native humans and native beastpeople, and some of the queens are also catgirl rivals to the human queens. You'd have Princess Pantha and Tiger Girl on one side and Sheena and Rulah on the other. Skins vs Furs.
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This one looks Awesome.
A couple of those open source guys look cool, but I can't help but feel they need a wiki separate from the golden age set.
I think the biggest problem, aside from the stock characters, is that jungle is a setting, not a genre, and a lot of writers forget that.
If they become a team, then you'd have to call them something different instead of Freedom Fighters since that was a DC thing (the Quality heroes never became a team till DC started using them, IIRC).
well a lot of the villains from Fletcher Hanks' stuff would make great recurring villains if we dial back Stardust and Fantomah a bit
if we need a "Jungle King" sort of character, maybe we could use Lion Man from All-Negro Comics(similarly if we have a major non-superhero detective running around I suggest Ace Harlem should be that character)
That is really cool, I love it when superhero equipment can be mass produced without immediately becoming worthless.
You're not just updating these old concepts, you're giving them a very tangible effect on the world, unlike modern comics where cape stuff is just superimposed on our reality and can at best maintain the status quo.
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I kind of like this guy, a gigantic invincible Yellow Peril demon, essentially Aku's racist prototype.
My favorite part is this.
>Claw left Earth during WWII by tricking the Nazis into building him a rocket.
Like an immortal monster eventually decides "you know what? Fuck this." And fucking cons the Nazis into building him a ride home. That is hilarious to me.
>Man of War
In Man of War's short golden age run he was a creation of Mars god of war. Acting more like Ares than Mars he combined the powers of Zeus, Poseidon, Hermes, and "all the other gods" (shades of Captain Marvel!) into a single form and planned to send him as a gift to the Axis war-bringers.
Fortunately Mars was a dumbass and accidentally sent his super weapon to America where magic rules meant that he would have to fight for peace freedom and the red white and blue.
The update version is a bit different.
The Axis isn't nice to superhumans and gods. When your government is a totalitarian collective individuals that wield more power than groups are dangerous. The different Axis nations have different approaches to handling superhumans and god. The Germans set a cosmic Ragnarock in motion-all the doomsday scenarios of different religions are going off all at once in the spiritual side of Earth. Not only does this provide a great distraction for Allied superhumans and wizards but it's slowly annihilating the gods of Earth. Superhumans are highly regulated, and the Nazis prefer to use superhumans created by combining SS elites with cybernetic technology (which means we'll have updates of all those disfigured Nazi badguys like Iron Jaw, The Crane, The Hammer, etc).
The Japanese people have a deep respect for their kami and yokai. But the Japanese government see them like they see their people-as disposable assets. They are controlled like the people are controlled through lies and promises, and when that fails threats and intimidation. Superhumans are embraced as sons and daughters of the gods and are held up to the same level as the Emperor and his family.
And now we come to Italy. The birthplace of Fascism, the country that produced walking cartoons like Mussolini and D'Annunzio, the country that produced Futurism that rejected the past for a future of industry, speed, and newness.
Italy doesn't get near the play it should in cape comics.
In the 1910's Italian Futurist super-scientists attempted to create a new god, who would create a new pantheon, a new religion, a new world. Mankind's ideas were flawed and belonged to the dustbin of history. The ancient gods were laughable, and disgustingly human.
It was time for a new god of metal and lightning and endless motion, a new god with new ideas that would create a new world.
In a day and night of inspiration, magic, and horrible sacrifice the Futurists created Futurae, God of the Future.
Futurae is the power behind his puppet Mussolini. Futurae is the spider that lurks at the edges of the spreading Ragnarock, preying on wounded gods and adding them to his growing body.
All superhumans belong to Futurae. All superhumans are the arms and hands of Futurae. Featureless, faceless, clad head to toe in black body armor. They do not announce their powers like American superhumans with their loud costumes and proud names. They have but on name and one identity-Futurae.
As Futurae's empire moves like a swarm of locusts across Europe taking far more land than they did in our reality he finds the time to create a son, Procul Futurae the god of the Far Future (post-modernism). Procul Futurae is the anti-child, the breaker of narratives, the drainer of meaning, the de-constructor. His father is the grand incorporator . He is the grand dissolver.
Futurae wishes to raise Procul Futurae to adulthood and then attempt to consume him. If Futurae survives he believes he will become invincible and eternal having absorbed his opposite.
Futurae's greatest secret is that he's not actually a new god. He's merely Moloch, god of child sacrifice, disguised as something new.
For what is fascism but large scale child sacrifice?
But here's where Man of War comes in. The Roman gods pull their power to create a new god of their own, one based on the stories and myths the modern superhumans create in peoples' hearts.
They create a superhero god.
Given that the world is engulfed by war, Mars was a natural choice to lead the creation of the new god.
Although born in war and powered by war Man of War loves peace just like his father Mars (Mars was a lover of Venus after all). He mother is Venus, and he has her heart-and his father would say her softness.
Man of War primarily fights against Italy and Futurae. He is the living myth of the chaoskampf, and Futurae is his dragon. The more he destroys of Futurae the more of his pantheon he creates. He creates out of Futurae a mythology- a Woman of Dawn, a Man of Skies, a Woman of Destiny, and a Man of Death-big archetypes just like he is.
Man of War isn't on good terms with father Mars. He hates feeling like a tool, he hates feeling like he was made just to fight and bring about a preordained destiny. Mars for his part believes his son is far too soft and too merciful a warrior and ridicules him for his softness to try and toughen him up.
Woman of Dawn loves Man of War, but Man of War doesn't want to fall in love with any kind of goddess and rudely rebuffs her shows of kindness. But she's still always there to treat his wounds and comfort him.
Man of War dislikes gods and dislikes being thought of one. He'd much rather be thought of as a superhuman. He idolizes the superheros around him.
In terms of updating his design, lets kit him out with Roman themed weaponry while still keeping his red shorts blue shirt look more or less intact.
First of all his golden eagle is now a golden dove. Its a symbol of his mother Venus and protects him with her magic.
As for the sword of mars he uses to cut through anything, we should keep it. Mar's weapon was a spear, but flaming swords are really, really cool. And hey, we can have the sword transform into any flaming weapon we want-even weapons from alien worlds and cultures. It's Mars' weapon after all.
His little Ray fin is changed to a full on Roman galea.
After destroying both Futurae and a super powered Mussolini Man of War adopts the young Procul Futurae as his son naming him the Son of War.
Taking the name and position of Futurae Man of War becomes known as the Man of Modernity and Procul Futurae becomes known as the Son of Tomorrow (see what I did there?).
Man of Modenrity's pantheon helps the spiritual worlds recover from the Nazi's Ragnarock wave and serves as a neutral mediating force between the pantheons of Earth in their interactions with each other and with mankind.
Reading up on Jack Cole's Plastic Man. Got to say it feels good to find a golden age strip that's actually pretty good to read.
I'm going to have to do something with Plas. It's interesting how different the original is to the modern DC version. He's far less zany, and a big part of his gimmick is that he uses his Eel O'Brian persona to get information on crooks.
There already exist numerous Jungle Lord characters that one could use. Lion Man, rather notably, isn't a Jungle Lord character - he just dresses like one.
A public domain thread awhile back posited Ace Harlem as the primary antagonist to a thrill killer vigilante version of Miss Masque.
I swear there was a jungle lord guy with size changing powers. But I'm not sure exactly who it was.
We need to pick some of the cooler looking non powered heroes and give them some sort of powe or gimmic.
Why? Not all heroes need superpowers and there already exist plenty of superpowered heroes.
And lets face it, guns are pretty much a superpower as long as you're not bulletproof.
There is Phantasmo, but he was one of the "go to Tibet and come back with powers" type heroes.
Also found this character who would be great to use as a recurring villain:
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>No comics published by Quality Comics were copyright renewed by either Quality itself nor National Periodicals and all characters would be public domain for copyright purposes including Plastic Man and Blackhawk, who both enjoy Trademark protection as marketing symbols of DC Comics.
So I can write a story about Plastic Man but not have him or his name on the cover?
Yep. It's the same deal with Captain Marvel and the Marvel family.
You guys know any good cowboy characters? WW2 is nice but how about Wild West capes?
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>All-Negro Comics
haha marvel are you seeing this
>The Black Terror
One of the most recognizable PD heroes, Bob Benton was a chemist who discovered created a super soldier serum that put Captain America's to shame. With it he was bulletproof and capable of not only lifting and throwing tanks but battleships. Because it was the golden age a sharp whack to the head was still enough to knock him out. SOMEHOW.
He had an assistant named Tim who went by the name Kid Terror who also got powers when he reproduced the formula.
The fact that the Black Terror and Tim now had a safe stable super soldier formula that could easily be replicated never really occurred to them.
It does now.
The Black Terror Squadron is the United State's infantry workhorse. In their Jolly Roger uniforms the Black Terrors invade Europe with all the panache of swashbuckling pirates. Black Terror formula doesn't make a man as strong as as Crusader's Lamesis or Blue Beetle's 3X pills, but it more than makes up by never wearing off. This makes the Black Terror Squadron ideal for holding captured areas while more powerful superhumans recharge.
There were a lot of Black Terror knock offs in the Golden Age, and I'm thinking about folding them into the Squadron. Within the squadron rank is determined by capes. The standard red on the inside and blue on the outside capes are worn by elites like Bob and Tim. The reverse is worn by the rank and file.
What if a Bozo malfunctioned and tries to be a human but since it's a machine of war all it can do is destroy? He could be like /r9k/ the character
Jeff Dixon, the Bronze Terror, ran as a backup feature in Daredevil's magazine. The stories were shocking nice to Native Americans given the timeperiod. Jeff was a college educated full blooded native (tribe not stated) who protected his people from white criminals.
His strip was even called REAL AMERICAN.
His updated version is a Navajo codetalker and comms master for the Black Terror Squadron. He keeps the cool skull facepaint and headdress (Navajos wear them) and adds a large communication device strapped to his back like a backpack that looks like a 1950's computer.
BOZO WANT TO HUG, BUT ALL BOZO HUGS BREAKS
Who are the coolest PD female superheroes? Other than Fantoma, I already know about her.
Bill Norris was a deadly member of the French Resistance before becoming a Terror and his superpowers combined with his skills make him the Squadron's scout and assassin.
Bill's drive and enthusiasm to exterminate the Nazis unnerves his allies, but they can't deny he's good at what he does.
His call sign isn't Grim Reaper for nothing.
His outfit is a mix of his golden age outfit and the Black Terror uniform. The Black Terror look dominates, but Bill changes the usual cape for a hooded one with the Jolly Roger displayed on the back.
>Avenger, Space Detective
Original stories took place in 2255 New York where the title character fought crime with his female friend Teena. Raygun Noir detective stories, noir storytelling and mood combined with the aesthetics and kookiness of raygun futurism, practically write themselves.
Would anyone read a comedy about Moon Girl and Owl Girl teaming up with Man of War and Fighting Yank? I have no idea how to do a serious story so maybe they just go around arguing and getting into shenanigans
Isn't that just Warbot In Accounting?
Dat Teena.
>X of the Underground
Who she is, nobody knows. She has long since discarded and forgotten her own identity. In a dystopic future regime she had been trained from birth to be the perfect spy. Now a young woman, known only by the name X, she is sent to join the underground resistance that wages a campaign of terror to overthrow the state to bring what they term freedom but what the regime calls anarchy.
But her skill as a spy, to subsume herself completely into her role, means that X is beginning to question just who she is. As she becomes more connected and journeys deeper into the Underground she feels her loyalties being tested. Will she complete her job and bring down the movement that threatens the stability of the state which she's pledged undying allegiance? Or will she find herself coming to truly aid her enemies?
Brad Hendricks, the Ghost, was a pilot who looks suspiciously like a certain character from a certain popular video game. Even though he lacked superpowers he somehow became the archenemy to the Yellow Claw, the golden age's Aku and Oriental caricature.
His updated version is the Black Terror Squadron's pilot, transporting the team in their enormous Terrorship and supporting them with his personal Ghost Plane fighter customized to keep up with his superhuman reflexes.
He wears an all-white version of the Black Terror uniform with a solid red cloak and helmet customized to look like a skull Command has told him that as durable as he is a helmet won't be anything but a nuisance, but he learned how to fly planes wearing a helmet and by god he'll do his job wearing a helmet.
I'm not sure how to make him the arch of the Yellow Claw and have it make sense. But then again it didn't make sense even back in the golden age.
>that one issue when he uppercutted a dude off a fucking skyscraper
Uhm no. Read the thread? We just came up with this idea.
Meet the Black Terror and his sidekick Kid Terror. They have he remarkable ability to somehow not get sued into oblivion.
I mean seriously. Captain Marvel got shitcanned by DC but these guys got away from Nedor? It just goes to show you copy right is a bum deal.
Their updated versions are an elite duo on the Black Terror Squadron recognized by the their Jolly Roger insignia being surrounded by a red circle. They're experimental prototypes that can be "supercharged" with Terror Formula to temporarily become raging engines of destruction. Hence why they get the callsign "Fury".
And I forgot my pic.
They aren't to be confused with the sexy heroine Black Fury who sometimes was known as Miss Fury.
Alternatively - Inspired by tales of The Night Witches, Mariya Oktyabrskaya, Alexandra Boiko and Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a bunch of widows and daughters enlist and make it into Europe, fighting in WW2 as saboteurs, assassins and spies.
>put an apple on your head, Jeff
Fucken dying
>Wally Wood draws a sexy lady
I would kill to reboot The Boy King and his Giant. So much could be done there.
>Young Prince David is the heir to the throne of Lakia, a small European country that attempts to adapt to modern times, but very much tries to keep its own traditions and avoid major conflicts
>However, a terrorist known as The Crane invades Lakia, and utilizes a giant mechanical war machine funded by a mysterious "Dr. Plasma," and kills the king.
>The king gives David the family crown, and gives him a map to an underground tunnel.
>David follows the map and finds a giant statue, made purely of "stone as hard as the hearts of evil men."
>The crown is mystically linked to the giant, and the giant is summoned.
>David magically controls the giant with his crown, and protects his land from various monsters and villains, as well as learns to be a king.
Boy King and his Giant was pretty rad for a golden age book. I only wish they didn't shift focus away from the giant so much. The best moment in the book was the giant fighting a giant Nazi robot dinosaur.
I think that is something that would be better off done separately. Girl Commandos generates a mental image that isn't really a bunch of widows. Make it an entire team of widows and tie them in with Black Venus.
You really need to go full Weird War with Boy King.
What do you think can be done about this... Entity? Standards too incompatible with humans like Stardust or would that be redundant?
Just make him an angel. Keep his gimmic being that he empowers others to fight injustice more so than fight it directly.
Harvey comics Black cat,Phantom lady,Polka Dot Pirate,Tomboy,there's too many to choose from honestly .
Fantomah should be the ultimate monarch over all the other jungle queens. What if the jungle queens all operated together,like a council? More over,if the continent was meant to be hidden,have it be hidden through some Bermuda Triangle esc shenanigans or have it be encased in a massive air bubble under the sea,reminiscent of Atlantis or something.
At the end of the day they're still public domain though. All we'd have to do is credit their creators.
I like the idea of a lost world jungle council.
Are the Dell Monsters public domain? I can't find them on the wiki but a lot of other Dell properties are there
pdsh.wikia.com
They should be. They look like a kickass team by the way.
Weird war is what most of us are doing with our revivals. You know Pattons tanker uniform proposal? I'm thinking of making that the standard army uniform with a ray rifle and jet pack.
Yeah that's why I asked,Dell had an amazing library of characters. For you Fantastic four fans,me included, they even attempted to cash in on the success of the FF back in 63'. I believe the Fab 4 are in the public domain aswell for those of you who are interested.
That's incredible. I wonder if we can take our public domain universe past the 40's and into the post war decades?
>Patton tanker uniforms
Pic related. These things are what you'd wear when you fight alongside superheros against Nazi robots and Japanese kami.
To think, we almost had this in real life.
>He's far less zany,
I kinda wonder when Plastic Man himself got more zanier. I want to say it might've been the 90's since Morrison admitted to writing Plas as being like Jim Carrey's Ace Ventura. IIRC Bob Haney wrote Plastic Man as kind of a depressed character in his issues of Brave and the Bold.