Friday, November 28, 2025

Captain America and Doll Man

 

I liked reading Doll Man tales when I was a kid, and that was no small accomplishment, given his costume and superhero name, neither of which were very cool.  The amazing  artwork I saw in the reprints featuring him was enough to overcome those hurdles.  I do wonder if the character might have been named Action Figure Man or something else had he been created a decade or two later.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

That would probably have been the case, Ross. Lord knows, shrunken man stories in general have certainly become popular enough on the Internet since the Turn of the Millenium! I believe the popular initialism is GTS SF.

Mark said...

Very red, white and blue heroic cover. Nice, Ross!

Detective Tobor said...

Love the cover design, Ross, very driving!!
Since the days of the Atom in the JSA, what were the below average height heroes called?? Toyman, Tom Thumb, Mighty Mite??

Simreeve said...

Ant-man, Yellowjacket... and for superheroines Shrinking, Wasp...

Simreeve said...

OOPS! Somehow omitted the second part of Shrinking Violet's name from the above post. :{

Bob Greenwade said...

I dunno about the comics, Tobor, but in the Champions RPG community we tended to call them Shrinkers.

And Ross: Now that Doll Girl's made her debut on the blog, maybe we can see her teamed up with the Wasp.

Carycomic said...

During the Golden Age, there was a shrunken crime-fighting twosome at Centaur Comics called Mini-midget and Ritty (as in "Itty Bitty"). And, in the Crusaders vs. Crushers Universe, there is the mind-controlling minx called Marionette!

Carycomic said...

The foot-tall paramour/partner of a renegade android known as the Mocker.

Bob Buethe said...

And DC's nearly forgotten (deservedly so, IMO) 1997 series "Young Heroes in Love" included the diminutive duo, Junior and Zip-Kid.

Carycomic said...

It must've been forgettable. I've never heard of them till literally this moment!

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