Thursday, June 27, 2019

Comics knowledge expanded

Hey, I don't think I knew this before: 
The Gay Ghost (later renamed the Grim Ghost, not to be confused with Grim Ghost) is a fictional superhero in the DC Comics universe whose first appearance was in Sensation Comics #1 (Jan. 1942), published by one DC's predecessor companies, All-American Publications. He was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Howard Purcell.
A little further Googling in image search brings up some amusing, hardly gay at all, results:





and now I see Cracked did have an article in 2013 that listed him as one of the 5 most absurd superheros, with this quote noted:




As for cringe-y dialogue:

 and this:


I am, verily, amused.


2 comments:

GMB said...

Sometimes they create these superheroes and then they have to wind them down after a few comics because they keep on getting beat up.

GMB said...

Probably they had a lot of gay superheroes in the draft stage. But the damsel in distress might perish when the hero needed to get to the hair stylist. Or when he was about to fight with someone really butch but found that he rather liked the buff guy to be kicking him in the head.