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10 unusual facts about John Ostrander


Dark Times: The Path to Nowhere

The story begins in the days following the events in Purge by John Ostrander, and intertwines with the events of Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader by James Luceno.

Eclipso

Series writer John Ostrander chose to portray this as a distinction between the Spectre's pursuit of "vengeance" and Eclipso's pursuit of "revenge".

Graham Nolan

In June 1990, he launched John Ostrander and Tim Truman's Hawkworld comic, pencilling it for 26 issues until late 1992.

Jemm

During his run on Martian Manhunter, John Ostrander used these similarities to explain that the Saturnians were a race created by and modelled on the Martians.

Kim Yale

She married a fellow comics creator, and frequent collaborator, John Ostrander the same year.

Outlaw Kid

The Outlaw Kid reappeared in the four-issue limited series Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes (2000), by writer John Ostrander and artist Leonardo Manco, which specifically retconned that the naively clean-cut Marvel Western stories of years past were merely dime novel fictions of the characters' actual lives.

Rick Flag

Bob Greenberger, who co-created the Suicide Squad alongside John Ostrander, has publicly objected to the resurrection of Rick Flag.

Sandy Hawkins

Published in 1992, the Armageddon Inferno miniseries written by John Ostrander takes the JSA members out of Ragnarok and brings them back to earth, allowing writers to use them in future stories.

Star Wars Legacy 4

Star Wars: Legacy 4 is the fourth issue of the Star Wars: Legacy comic series written by John Ostrander and published by Dark Horse Comics on 4 October 2006.

Thomas Martin Easterly

He was brought back to Missouri by John Ostrander, founder of the first daguerreotype gallery in St. Louis, in early 1848.


Gunhawks

In John Ostrander and Leonardo Manco's 2000 miniseries Blaze of Glory: The Last Ride of the Western Heroes, the Gunhawks returned, but in a greatly modified form.