More About Marvel...
Dec. 21st, 2008 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotTurns out that Marvel had their own WW1 Air Ace Superhero--the Phantom Eagle.
He was an American with family in Germany, who fought the Germans under an assumed identity to protect his kin from reprisals. Marvel introduced him in the early 1970s, when war comics were beginning to lose their steam. What strikes me as being very strange...more than thirty years after his last appearance, Marvel currently is reviving the character in a miniseries.
Yes, Garth Ennis, the writer who revived Enemy Ace--and Howard Chaykin, the artist who DC threw at Blackhawk in the Eighties. The series just started this fall. I wonder if it'll be offered as a compilation.
FP
He was an American with family in Germany, who fought the Germans under an assumed identity to protect his kin from reprisals. Marvel introduced him in the early 1970s, when war comics were beginning to lose their steam. What strikes me as being very strange...more than thirty years after his last appearance, Marvel currently is reviving the character in a miniseries.
Yes, Garth Ennis, the writer who revived Enemy Ace--and Howard Chaykin, the artist who DC threw at Blackhawk in the Eighties. The series just started this fall. I wonder if it'll be offered as a compilation.
FP
