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.
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.
ReplyDeleteVery red, white and blue heroic cover. Nice, Ross!
ReplyDeleteLove the cover design, Ross, very driving!!
ReplyDeleteSince the days of the Atom in the JSA, what were the below average height heroes called?? Toyman, Tom Thumb, Mighty Mite??
Ant-man, Yellowjacket... and for superheroines Shrinking, Wasp...
ReplyDeleteOOPS! Somehow omitted the second part of Shrinking Violet's name from the above post. :{
ReplyDeleteI dunno about the comics, Tobor, but in the Champions RPG community we tended to call them Shrinkers.
ReplyDeleteAnd Ross: Now that Doll Girl's made her debut on the blog, maybe we can see her teamed up with the Wasp.
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!
ReplyDeleteThe foot-tall paramour/partner of a renegade android known as the Mocker.
DeleteAnd DC's nearly forgotten (deservedly so, IMO) 1997 series "Young Heroes in Love" included the diminutive duo, Junior and Zip-Kid.
ReplyDeleteIt must've been forgettable. I've never heard of them till literally this moment!
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