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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 9539221" data-attributes="member: 508">I just spent the last hour or so reading the first three issues of three homemade comic book titles I wrote and drew back in March - August 1979, that I unearthed in a folder in a drawer in my gaming library.  That would have been the end of my first year in high school and the summer before I started my sophomore year.  The titles were:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Professor Precarious - a geneticist who experimented with animal extracts, injecting himself with various compounds that temporarily transformed him into various animal/human hybrids.  His most successful was the ant/eel compound, which gave him the proportional strength of an ant, the ability to walk up walls, and the electrical zap of an electric eel.  (Unfortunately, it also gave him the head of a human-sized ant, so he was mute while in that form - and he looked more like a monster than a traditional superhero, usually wearing slacks and his lab coat instead of a uniform.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Laserman - a superpowered humanoid from two alternate realities away from Earth, who was sent to explore these other realities, and who got stranded once the scientists back at his home dimension realized the launch-points from one world to another were forming permanent, one-way gates.  So they shut down the program while they worked on coming up with a solution that didn't further mess up the realities, and in the meantime Laserman became a crimefighting superhero on Earth.  He could shoot energy blasts from his hands and the buttons on his belt created a force field and temporarily transported him into an otherwise empty pocket dimension where he could heal up as necessary (or deposit enemies until he was ready to deal with them).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dawnspirit - a Los Angeles college student volunteered as an experimental subject in the rapid transfer of knowledge directly into the brain (the plan was for her to learn fluent Spanish in mere minutes), but an overload of the equipment hooked up to her head caused her to develop telekinetic powers (including the ability to fly telekinetically).  So naturally, she decided to use her newfound powers to become a superhero.</li> </ul>It was fun reading these over (those I could make out, in any case, as some pages have faded significantly over the intervening years), and I could see my (primitive) artistic abilities increase in those few scant months; it's also pretty obvious I learned what I knew about comics from the Marvel Universe comics I was reading at the time.  But I still have issues 4-6 of those three comics to read later, as well as the two issues I did of a fourth title:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Guardian Force - a group of five superpowered aliens from the planet Coragon assigned as the protectors of Earth from alien threats until the planet was deemed worthy of joining a Galactic Federation.  The members were Sun King, Moon Goddess, Matter Shaper, Rain Master, and Hunter (the last two of which were significantly underpowered compared to the first three).  Issue 2 of this series, the last of the whole bunch, has a date of July 1981, which would be in the summer before my senior year in high school.</li> </ul>I'm drowning in nostalgia over here!Johnathan</blockquote>

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