I
have always had a special fondness for Captain Comet, the first mutant
superhero in comic books. Created by John Broome and Carmine Infantino (and drawn above by Murphy Anderson
and Joe Giella), the character is poised precisely between the Golden and Silver
Ages, an oasis in the superhero desert of the early 1950s, and foreshadows the
streamlined elegance of DC science fiction and superheroes like the Flash. A
true Man of Tomorrow — he is evolved 100,000 years beyond his time — Captain
Comet was a Superman updated from the Depression to the postwar flying saucer
era. The story above is from Strange Adventures 29 (1953).
DC Comics always had more giant, threatening tops than one would imagine (from Strange Adventures 10, July 1951) |
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