Saturday, October 25, 2025

Metamorpho and The Falcon in: "Showdown With The Secret Empire!"

 

It's pretty cool that Metamorpho is now a much more recognized character to the general public, thanks to his inclusion in Superman.  I hope we get to see him onscreen again soon, and I wonder which lesser known DC character might show up next.  Bring on The Creeper, Space Cabbie and Skyrocket!

The Falcon and Metamorpho fought the Trojan Horde in STF #3054... and they first met in STF #2641...

19 comments:

MWC said...

Wait, are they fighting Cobra Commander?

Bob Greenwade said...

I just noticed that we're coming down the wire to #5000, which will be dropping somewhere around Thanksgiving!

I'm crossing my fingers that we get something super special to mark getting to the halfway point toward a five-digit run. Maybe there can be a big build-up, and then instead of characters headlining it's just "SECRET CRISIS"!

Ross said...

Oh we've been building to #5000 for years... lots of time travelling exploits have led to it. It will be an oversized issue with lots of extras.

Anonymous said...

Nope! The leader of the Secret Empire has always been addressed as Number One. The most infamous of those title-holders having been the one who killed himself rather than be captured by Capt. America in the Oval Office of the pre-Bicentennial White House. He was, of course, supposed to be a Richard Nixon analog! Which raises the question: which POTUS is this one supposed to be? ;-)

Carycomic said...

W.C. Fields: "Then I shall await that publication with bated breath."

Groucho Marx: "Why would anybody want their breath to smell like bait? That's the most ridiculous thing I ever hoid!"

Detective Tobor said...

THAt would be a hook, line, and stinker! I wanna know what would Super-Adaptoid be like taking Metamorpho's abilities?? Also, Ross, i have noticed the internet has a number of fans doing Crossovers. You're a trendsetter!! Congratulations!!

Carycomic said...

Re: your first question? It would be elementary, my dear Tobor. Elementary!

MWC said...

Oh, OK. Thanks.

Anonymous said...

How about Rage taking in Amazing Man?

Carycomic said...

As in John Aman (from Golden Age Centaur Comics) or Will Everett (the African-American JSA-er first introduced in the 1980's)?

Anonymous said...

It never ceases to amaze me how often cover art colorists always used to differ with how the characters' outfits were colored inside the comic. At least during the 1970's. For example; this cover art version of the original Moonstone (nee Lloyd Bloch) looks more like the Demon Druid's "Alchemoid" (from CAPT. AMERICA v.1/#188)!

Simreeve said...

'Number One'? I wander if it was also him as the hidden controller of 'the Village' from British 1960s TV show 'The Prisoner'?

Carycomic said...

Hard to say. The series finale was more than a tad ambiguous as to whether or not Numero 6 was confronting an alien shapeshifter or a surgically created double at the end, there .

Carycomic said...
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Anonymous said...

The latter, of course!

Bob Buethe said...

DC's "The Prisoner: Shattered Visage" miniseries explained the last episode as being Number Six's hallucinations after his mind finally snapped.

Bob Buethe said...

I love Ramona Fradon's art. But I've seen several of her commissioned drawings online, and it really bugs me that when she colored her own work, she colored Metamorpho's feet and hands in peachy skin tones.

Carycomic said...

An apocryphal explanation at best, though.

Anonymous said...

Closer to winter solstice, actually.

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