
(From "Master Comics" number 85, 1947.)
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(From "Master Comics" number 85, 1947.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
I am turning over today's installment of "Bad Super-Hero Costumes" to Brian Hughes at "Again With the Comics" for his most excellent run-down of two-issue Golden Age sensation "Dynamite Thor", who is every bit as awesome as you would expect from a guy whose "power" is throwing dynamite at anything getting in his way.
Head on over to Brian's place and check out the full article, it's really a hoot. Or, rather, it's dynamite!
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Posted in Bad Super Costumes
(From "Master Comics" number 62, 1945.)
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
I don't know for sure why Superman is Greek but there you have it. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are all © DC Comics, Inc.
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Posted in Sketch of the Day
Look at this vibrant Golden Age lineup of spandex-clad super-heroes, led by none other than the redoubtable Big Red Cheese himself, Captain Marvel:
Sadly, the only one of these valiant warriors from a bygone age to survive into the modern universe is Captain Marvel. His outfit hasn't changed a stitch in all that time, which I guess shouldn't surprise anyone since Billy Batson never hit puberty either, despite fifty years to bake. I guess the lightning giveth, and the lightning taketh away.
His fellow adventurers were not so fortunate, sadly, and except for Bulletman have largely disappeared from the face of comic-dom.
That's where you come in.
Your challenge this week is to bend your enormous creative skills (with a little help from HeroMachine, of course) to the task of reimagining one of these other four masked men. Take their fundamental concept and twist it, change it, tweak it, update it, make it modern and cool and stylish. And of course, that means they need new threads, because these supporting cast-members don't have all-powerful wizards flinging thunderbolts around to quell the fashion police.
From left to right on the cover, your targets are (click to get more info on them) Spy Smasher; Bulletman; Minute Man; and/or Mr. Scarlet.
You have one week! On next Monday, I will select the best proposed redesigns and post them for a community vote for the overall winner, who will as usual receive their choice of any one item of their choice, or a portrait of themselves, to appear in the final HeroMachine 3 program. Their character, along with the runner-up, will also be featured in a prominent ad on UGO.com to be seen by millions of visitors for the week.
The other rules are the same as always:
Good luck everyone! And sorry this is so late, in the mass of contest posts earlier I somehow forgot to do the new one. Thanks to Danny and Kaldath for poking me.
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Posted in Challenges
In keeping with our new democratic traditions here at HeroMachine.com, I, your benevolent overlord, have selected what I consider to be the funniest six entries for Caption Contest 68, and now you -- yes, you! -- get to decide which one should win its author the choice of a custom item or portrait of themselves to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 app. Here are your choices (you get to pick up to two, click on an image to see it in a larger, more legible format):
[polldaddy poll="2591670"]Good luck everyone, and congratulations to those five Honorable Mentions!
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Posted in Challenges
I am happy to announce the winner of Character Contest 25 is ... Anarchangel!
The margin of victory was one vote, but even crazier is that the vote for second place was even closer -- it was a tie! So our two runners-up, who will also be featured in the banner on a rotating basis, were (in order they appear below) Psycko Sama and Hammerknight:
Anarchangel wins either one item of his choice, or a portrait of himself, either of which will appear in the final HeroMachine 3 release. Congratulations to him, and to both Hammerknight and Psycko Sama! Great job to everyone who entered, my thanks.
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Posted in Challenge Favorites, Challenges
Per requests from Fabien and a couple of others, I just added a set of mechanical robot treads to the Body-Monster set:
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Posted in HeroMachine 3