However, it also introduced a brand-new Marvel hero known as the Captain.
Tragically, Leather Boy didn’t stay amember of the Great Lakes Avengersor even a superhero.
Leather Boy has returned since as a spiteful but relatively harmless enemy of the GLA and squirrels everywhere.
Robert Frank’s Whizzer debuted in 1941’sU.S.A.
I mean, come on, you’re named the Whizzer and you sport a YELLOW COSTUME?"
I had no idea!
Just two cool names put together!
Zeitgeist, I guess.
The series later flipped this insulting caricature on its head, revealing thatSurrender Monkey wasn’t actually French.
The entire Euro-Trash team were a psy-op deliberately designed to manipulate the American public.
“, referencing the famously harsh censorship of comics which resulted from a 1950s moral panic.
This time, the complaint came from Boneyard Press, who already had a character of the same name.
The ’90s were a great era for Marvel Comics with some truly iconic characters and stories introduced.
However, these figures are not comparable.
Source: Chris Hassan,AIPT;Comics Journal
