The Most "Creature of Their Time" Character DC Ever Did Was...?

[DrNewGod]

Someone on another thread mentioned The Sea Devils as an obscure DC property that they like. Got me thinking about how TSDs were really creatures of their time, Challengers of the Unknown knockoffs that came along during an early 1960s fascination with scuba-diving.

I don't know if you could ever make them really fly (or swim) again in today's world.

What are some others DCs done that are just hopelessly products of their time?

[MajorHoy]

Brother Power The Geek?

[j9ac9k]

You've been JAMMED!
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[Zero Hunter]

Oh god No!!! You made me remember Jamm! Probably the worst character created by DC ever.

[Buried Alien]

Prez was as 60s as it got, and Lobo was as 90s as it got.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[MajorHoy]

Prez was as 60s as it got, and Lobo was as 90s as it got.

Prez was 70s, not 60s.

(Voting age was lowered at the beginning of the 1970s.)

[Frontier]

The Green Team...?

[Jim Kelly]

Prez was a creature of his time in that he appeared in 1973, when the Watergate scandal was just becoming national news and starting to taint the Nixon administration. Maybe even a bit ahead of his time--but then young people were sick of Nixon from the start. So Joe Simon was tapping into the zeitgeist of the youth movement with his creation, the polar opposite of Nixon.

Quite the dude that Joe Simon guy--I wish he got more respect for his novel ideas.

Metamorpho was immersed in the 1960s, being a freak who did not love being a super-hero--exploited by a rich fat cat, in love with a gear bird in fab threads, while a mook with a caveman face was eating his lunch. Rex just wanted to be human.

Ma Hunkle was of her time, raising two little hellions, and serving out justice in her neighbourhood, as the Red Tornado--mocking the craze for heroes in long underwear.

[My Two Cents]

FOXAND THE CROW
The series about a Fox and a cigar smoking Crow loaded with plenty of hi jinx
The series ran from issue # 1 1951 to Issue 108 1968

[Jim Kelly]

Based on the Aesop fable, Fauntleroy Fox and Crawford Crow got their big break in 1941 when Screen Gems offered them the chance to appear in a series of shorts. After that, the brash young comedy duo lit their exploding cigars with ten dollar bills at their high stakes poker games with the likes of Krazy Kat, Scrappy and Flippity & Flop. DC signed them to a long term contract in 1945 and they had to wear shades, the future was so bright. They never thought it could end, but end it did when an ankle-biter with a speech impediment pushed them out of their eponymous vehicle.

Sadly, their big chance at a comeback--a cameo in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT--ended up on the proverbial cutting room floor.

[Jackalope89]

Prez was as 60s as it got, and Lobo was as 90s as it got.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Lobo was 80s.

And Superboy Connor was as 90s as it got.

[Slim Shady]

Az-Bats

Wild Dog (it’s like Punisher and Jason Voorhies had a baby in the 80s)

[iron chimp]

The adventures of bob hope might be tricky to reboot

[Rod G]

Lobo was 80s.

And Superboy Connor was as 90s as it got.

Lobo started at the 80s but peaked at the 90s.

[DrNewGod]

In many ways I think Hal (Green Lantern) Jordan is a creature of the 1960s. Test pilots still have some sheen to them, but nothing like cachet they held during The Space Race era. It wasn't too long after the moon landing that - as NASA seemed to lose it's luster - that Jordan's story and adventures seemed to wander off course, unable to find a direction that really worked.