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Post by dans on Apr 22, 2024 11:27:20 GMT
I need an adventure for an original character in Great Britain in the mid-50s and I'd like to read some British comics from around that time. Anybody know how to find them online? 50s Marvelman might be the best match, but stories about any heroes or heroines with super powers would be helpful. Or maybe Marvelman not really a good match after all because his adventures take place in the US... There are some UK heroes listed here: UK Heroes of the 50s Captain Zenith, Captain Universe, Electroman, Johnny Jet, Mr. Apollo, and Val Venture all look like good matches for what I'm interested in. Thanks! |
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Post by dans on Apr 22, 2024 17:52:54 GMT
I found a place to read about Val Venture (and Ace Hart, Atom Man) and their adventures were either in outer space or didn't offer any hints about how to make my story 'belong' in England. One of the stories referenced Oklabama, and I scoured the map of the British Isles but couldn't find it. Then I realized it is right next to Missalina!
And found some copies of Marvelman, too. Geez, they are terrible!
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Post by DocQuantum on Apr 22, 2024 19:44:21 GMT
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Post by DocQuantum on Apr 22, 2024 20:58:00 GMT
And found some copies of Marvelman, too. Geez, they are terrible! Yeah a lot of these comics are written for a VERY young audience, so the quality is about what you'd expect. The humor and adventure comics are better than the UK superhero comics, IMO. |
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Post by dans on Apr 22, 2024 21:27:54 GMT
Thanks. Those are all pretty awful, aren't they? Guess I'm spoiled... Very difficult to find a super hero who actually has adventures in London or even the UK. |
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Post by redsycorax on Apr 22, 2024 22:17:11 GMT
Try and hunt down a copy of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest, the latest Alan Moore graphic novel in that series. It's full of UK superheroes from the fifties and sixties. With any luck, there may be a concordance website... I'll scoot off now and see if I can find some for you, Dan... Here are some...: internationalhero.co.uk/50.htmlThere are a lot more in the sixties, though: internationalhero.co.uk/60.htmlOkay, so in LEG: Tempest, there are two rival 1950s UK superhero teams composed of (currently public domain) the following: The Seven Stars: Vull the Invisible, Zom of the Zodiac, Flash Avenger, Captain Universe, Marsman, Electro Girl/Woman and Satin AstroThe Victory Vanguard: Ace Hart, Mark Tyme, the Purple Hood, Tommy Walls, Crash Brittanus, Mr Apollo, Silver, Mr. Muscle and Speed Gale.I agree, some of them are fairly insipid and juvenile concepts, but we're dealing with pre-teen and early teenage audiences here in a more innocent age. Captain Universe was one of the more original takes on Captain Marvel, Marsman actually predated DC's J'onn J'onnz by a couple of decades, while Electro Girl/Woman had definite potential. The other two seemed to be the most interesting members of a very anodyne, poorly characterised bunch. Mr Apollo: internationalhero.co.uk/m/mrapollo.htmlSpeed Gale: internationalhero.co.uk/s/spedgale.htmlNB: This is the Jess Nevins Annotations website Doc refers to below: www.jessnevins.com/annotations/tempestannotations.html |
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Post by DocQuantum on Apr 22, 2024 22:30:40 GMT
Try and hunt down a copy of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest, the latest Alan Moore graphic novel in that series. It's full of UK superheroes from the fifties and sixties. With any luck, there may be a concordance website... I'll scoot off now and see if I can find one for you, Dan... Yeah there’s an Annotations website by Jeff Nevins that has notes on all of the LOEG series. The one with the character based on James Bond uses the style of British comic strips as a storytelling method. |
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Post by dans on Apr 23, 2024 14:21:09 GMT
I found a British superhero named Streamline, who showed up in maybe 4 issues of Streamline Comics. I think he is going to show up in this story. He injected himself with Elixir X which gave him super speed and superior regenerative abilities and in issue 4 they referred to him as 'Britain's Superman' and then he never showed up again. He fought some pretty standard bad guys to start but also fought a mad scientist who was going to use an atomic ray to blow up world capitals.
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Post by redsycorax on Apr 23, 2024 22:21:09 GMT
From what I've read, Superman class superheroes tended to be quite dominant in Britain in the forties and fifties. Although Speed Gale and Gary (...) dress like Batman and Robin, so go figure...
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