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unusual facts about superheroes



AC1

Action Comics #1, containing the first appearances of several superheroes

Alex Power

With the end of that miniseries, Alex was not seen again until he appeared on the cover of Avengers: The Initiative #1 (in his Zero-G costume) as one of 150 Marvel superheroes either involved with, or being considered as potential recruits by the Fifty State Initiative.

Andrew Chord

Due to Chord and Tai's urging Dwayne became Night Thrasher and assembled a young team of superheroes named the New Warriors.

Anna Rozen

She has also worked as a translator, her French version of Andrew Kaufman's All my friends are superheroes appearing in 2007.

Coal Tiger

When all of the members of A-Next were captured by an evil version of A-Next called The Revengers, Coal Tiger was one of the many heroes who came to free the captured superheroes.

Colleen Wing

Colleen has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who have registered as part of the Initiative.

Daring Mystery Comics

A small handful of other Daring Mystery superheroes have been revived or have made guest appearances in modern-day titles, such as the World War II-set flashback series The Invaders and the feature "Liberty Legion" in Marvel Premiere.

Debrii

Deborah has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who are a part of the Initiative program.

Deliria

Inspired by authors like Charles de Lint, Erik Davis and Francesca Lia Block, films like Edward ScissorHands and Practical Magic, world music and ethereal wave music, and TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Deliria's setting emphasizes "normal people" over superheroes.

Ealy Mays

Mays’ 2005 “Migration of the Superheroes” exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre makes him one of the few African-American artists to date to follow Tanner’s footsteps to the Louvre.

Folding Circle

After that the three villains have been identified as members of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book Avengers: The Initiative #1.

George Olshevsky

While compiling the Marvel Indices, he "produced some 60 fully illustrated books, totaling more than a million and a quarter words," producing indices to all the major Marvel Superheroes (including Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Marvel Team-Up, etc.

Giant oceanic manta ray

The Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants includes an antagonist/secondary character named Man-Ray, a super villain based on the manta ray who acts as a nemesis to the series' superheroes Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.

Graffiti in Russia

An example of this is the Russian Red Army soldiers on a monument in Sofia, Bulgaria, which has been turned into popular superheroes and cartoon characters (including Superman, Santa Claus, Ronald McDonald, and the Joker) by an anonymous graffiti artist.

Halo Corporation

Marlowe also started to support other superhero initiatives: Halo made payments to the Monarchy and was one of the funders of the Seminary, a school for superheroes (Wildcats 3.0 #1-24).

Hero Cruz

Hero eventually lost his vest, but found the even more interesting "H-Dial" (of Dial H for Hero fame), and soon realized that by spelling H-E-R-O on its dial, he would be granted the powers of and persona of one of several superheroes, supposedly merging with them using hypertime.

Heroes World Distribution

When the former Mego Corporation trademark "Superhero" was purchased by Marvel and DC, Superheroes Enterprise was forced to change its name to Heroes World.

Italian Spiderman

Ostensibly an Italian take on the comic book superhero Spider-Man, the film is a reference to foreign movies that misappropriate popular American superheroes such as the Turkish film "3 Dev Adam" and the Japanese TV series "Spider-Man", both of which alter the character of Spider-Man for foreign audiences.

JJ Horner

In 2010 he created a Converse shoe insole for professional skateboarder Nick Trapasso and was listed as part of the Creatives, cultured superheroes of Metropolitan Phoenix.

JSA: The Liberty Files

This series was based on characters from the Justice Society of America but portrayed them as covert government operatives in a World War II-era setting, rather than their traditional portrayal as superheroes fighting criminals.

Klaus Nordling

For Marvel Comics predecessor Timely Comics, Nordling and an unknown writer created the Thin Man, one of comics' first "stretching" superheroes, in Mystic Comics #4 (July 1940).

Legion of Substitute Heroes

They were depicted as reasonably effective superheroes until Keith Giffen, during his tenure as Legion writer, began depicting the team as something of a joke.

Lorelei Travis

When a group of superheroes known as the New Warriors accidentally blow up a town causing the general public to turn on superheroes and eventually ignite a superhero civil war.

Luis Roberto Guzmán

In his youth Guzmán was a follower of several fictional superheroes, including Atom Ant and ThunderCats, which influenced his acceptace for the role.

Mark Zug

He discovered his passion for painting to bring to life things not available to the senses - dinosaurs, superheroes, Jules-Vernean submarines, imaginary cars, races of ancient astronauts, starships inspired by then-fresh Star Trek etc.

Nelvana of the Northern Lights

On October 5, 1995, Canada Post issued a stamp depicting her, as part of the "Comic Book Superheroes" series that also included Superman, Johnny Canuck, Captain Canuck and Fleur de Lys.

Night Raven

During the decade, Night Raven appeared in various Marvel UK titles, including a run of text stories beginning in Marvel Superheroes (#382-386) by Alan McKenzie and continued in The Daredevils (#6-11) by Alan Moore and Jamie Delano.

NStigate Games

Meanwhile in 2005, Nihilistic completed development on Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, a fighting game based on Marvel Comics' various superheroes.

Pøbel

One series, for example, portrays superheroes such as Superman and Batman in decrepit old age.

Project Liberty

The Liberty Project, a team of former supervillains into superheroes of Eclipse Comics

Red Circle Comics

Archie planned to begin publishing superheroes again in the late 1980s with an imprint called Spectrum Comics, featuring a number of high-profile talents, including Steve Englehart, Jim Valentino, Marv Wolfman, Michael Bair, Kelley Jones, and Rob Liefeld.

Red Raven

As part of the Marvel NOW! event, Dania is among the teenage superheroes that were captured by Arcade and forced to fight for his amusement in the pages of Avengers Arena.

Robert Cobb

Bob Cobb, the secret identity of Mon-El of the Legion of Superheroes when he lives in Smallville.

Seventh Sanctum

Superheroes/Sentai - including "Silly Superhero Name Generator" and "Sentai Story Generator"

Smiling Tiger

Smiling Tiger has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book Avengers: The Initiative #1.

Steve Englehart

2, #12-17 (May 1972 - March 1973), Englehart integrated the Patsy Walker character, the star of a teen romantic-comedy series into the Marvel Universe alongside the company's superheroes.

Takron-Galtos

The young superheroes are released after Boltax is revealed to be the supervillain Universo, who had turned the population of Earth against the Legion by putting a mind control chemical in the water.

Team-up

In American superhero comic books, a team-up is when two superheroes or superhero teams who usually do not appear together fight crime together.

Texas Twister

Texas Twister has been identified as one of the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book Avengers: The Initiative #1 (June 2007).

The Dark Knight Strikes Again

He confronts Wayne at the Batcave, but Batman and the other superheroes defeat him.

The End League

The series was created by Rick Remender and Mat Broome and focuses on the struggles of the last of the superheroes in a world in which the supervillains have prevailed and enslaved what remains of the world.

The Thanos Imperative

The story is the culmination of events starting with the "Annihilation" and more specifically the storyline "War of Kings", which climaxed with the opening of a hole between alternate universes, and "Realm of Kings", which involved different characters in conflict with the Many-angled ones and counterparts of the Earth-616 superheroes.

Twilight of the Superheroes

The 1991 crossover Armageddon 2001, for example, involves a messenger from the future travelling to the present to convince superheroes to avoid a disastrous future.

Z Densetsu: Owarinaki Kakumei

The sentai genre (the word sentai means literally "squadron") evolves around a team of costumed superheroes fighting villains and includes such popular television shows and franchises as Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger (remade into Power Rangers for the US), Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Metal Hero.


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