How would you revamp an obscure DC Character?

[scary harpy]

You want obscure characters? You got it!

(Unfortunately, many Fawcett, Nedor and Quality characters ‘owned’ by DC are in the public domain now. So, I will try my best to create a derivative work.)


Blue Lama
Blue Lama: 1942, Sensation Comics #68. The Blue Lama is a blue skinned sorceress that was a recurring foe of Sargon the Sorcerer. In addition to her magic powers, in her first appearance, she lead a group of sorcerers to defeat Sargon but the tables were turned. She doesn’t need a revamp; she needs a new opponent…like Zatanna.


Bifröstson (nee Rainbow Man)
Bifröstson: 1942, Action Comics #46. An early recurring foe of the Vigilante and Stuff. He and his gang used the colors of the rainbow and his "Rainbow Globe" for crimes.


The Green Hag (nee The Hag)
The Green Hag: 1948, Doll Man Quarterly #19. Beautiful Patricia Wentworth aka the Hag is in prison and as she's been a model prisoner, she's asked to play a witch in a performance of “Macbeth”. Disguised as a witch and using her knowledge of chemistry, she gases the warden and guards with deadly vapors from the witch's cauldron during a rehearsal and makes her escape. She gives warnings of her crimes through cryptic poems and then uses science to mimic magic to carry them out (such as robot gliders disguised as bats and controlled by a supersonic whistle). NOTE: The story gives the idea that she appeared before but the GCD lists this as a her first appearance. She doesn’t need a revamp; she needs a new opponent…like Batwoman.


The Lightning Bug
The Lightning Bug: 1948, Sensation Comics #76. This female costumed crook is a scientific genius, discovering an electro-magnetic force that she calls "Z-Rays" which she can direct through the combination of her belt and antennae on her cowl. She gives out free radios as part of a hoax, one of which to Sargon's assistant Max. When Sargon touches the radio, it shocks and paralyzes him and the radio flies back to the Lightning Bug dragging him along. There she imprisons him in a vacuum tube to die of suffocation while she and her gang go on a crime spree as the other radios were rigged to explode, killing their owners and leaving their homes open to looting. Sargon breaks free and captures her and her gang. She doesn’t need a revamp; she needs a new opponent…like Batwoman.


Madam Braun (nee Madam Brawn)
Madam Braun: 1941, Police Comics #4. On a spacious farm outside of Windy City, Madam Braun runs her school for female ex-cons. She trains them to be able to outfight two men at the same time, by starting out with four hours of hard work and two hours of boxing and wrestling each day and once conditioned, going in to the real training. There's also regular training on how to shoot, from rifles to tommy guns. And, no smoking. Only Madam Braun is allowed that privilege. When they are ready, they start to take over the protection racket in Windy City, beating up Lefty Goon and his goons in the process. Plastic Man, who is undercover in Lefty's gang, warns Madam Braun of Lefty planning on retaliating. He is promptly captured by her she-devils and fore-warned, they wipe out Lefty's gang when it arrives. Plastic Man is willing to let her off with a warning but she wants vengeance for him ruining her plans. She dies the following issue in the attempt…or not. Note: Her name is either Braun or Braune but this chronicler is uncertain which is correct.


The Mermaiden (nee Scarlet Mermaid)
The Mermaiden: 1941, Flash Comics #19. The Mermaiden is a beautiful blonde woman dressed in form fitting red scaled costume and commits daring robberies at sea. Her “real” identity is Miss Scarlet Wilde, living in a posh apartment building with a doorman named George. She is captured by the King who frightens her with a bunch of mice. She doesn’t need a revamp; she needs a new opponent…like Batwoman.


Ms. Figure (nee The Figure)
Ms. Figure: 1950, Plastic Man #23. The incredibly beautiful and curvaceous Figure is also a genius at mathematics. She uses that combination to become a crime boss and mastermind. She is stopped by Plastic Man.


Ruthless (nee Tigress)
Ruthless: 1938, Action Comics #1. This woman is the leader of a murderous gang of thieves and played up as a master villain that Zatarra is after and is still at large at the end of the story. Even in this adventure, they already had met at least once before. While she had a penchant for tight striped tops, she didn't wear a costume as such, a headband and skirt. She isn't above manhandling the hero, and is the leader of a gang of crooks. Fred Guardineer's bold line art helps to make her really stand out. She doesn’t need a revamp; she needs a new opponent…like Batwoman.


Veda, the Cobra Woman (nee Veda Kane)
Veda, the Cobra Woman: January 1942, Police Comics #6. Slinky Veda was an exotic Indian dancer who married the wealthy American Peter Kane. She then put cobra poison on her lips to kill both Kane and his drunken son with a kiss, in order to gain their fortune. Her plot was foiled by Chic Carter.
In addition to having the kiss of death, Veda kept a huge cobra in her room, that she worshiped as a god. She was said to move like a snake, and at least one observer said that she looked like a cobra (probably because she dresses in a green skin-tight costume and performs for audiences, mimicking the moves of the cobra). She doesn’t need much of a revamp; she needs a new opponent…like Batwoman!

[scary harpy]

You want obscure characters? You got it!

They don't come much more obscure than old Green Arrow villains.

Javelin (replaces Blue Lancer)
World's Finest Comics #43 (December 1949)
In the vein of many of Arrow's archaic weapon niche enemies, Lancer uses spears and javelins. He is replaced by the Javelin, a Green Lantern foe.

Javelin
Green Lantern vol. 2 #173 (February 1984)
The Javelin's true identity has never been revealed, but it is known that he is a former German Olympic athlete who turned to a life of crime, using his uncanny abilities with a javelin-based weapons arsenal

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Alley Cat (replaces Cat)
Adventure Comics #104 (May 1946) - [First Appearance Catwoman Vol 2 #0 (October, 1994)]
(Then: red-headed female costumed criminal, wore gender-disguising uniform and mask. Now: Miss Cartland) Cassandra Cartland was the thief Alley-Cat, an old friend and rival of Catwoman. Cartland was an orphan who spent time at the same orphanage in Gotham City as Selina Kyle. Some years after Selina had escaped and begun her criminal career as the Catwoman, Cartland, who by now had also reached adulthood and was on her own, realized that the Catwoman was Selina and got the idea to mimic her former schoolmate's career. To do this, she assembled her own costume and weaponry that were similar to Catwoman's and embarked on her own rampage of thievery.
Cartland tried her luck in Stary City only to encounter Green Arrow.

[Mutant God]

Combining Vartox/Morgan Edge
Vartox is the real name of Morgan Edge and owns Galaxy Communications where they own cable companies on multiple planets and galaxies.

Nuclear Man:
An ego driven human businessman who endorses and makes profit off of nuclear power is given super powers after being caught in an accident. Power corrupts him even further making him lie even more and always tries to play the victim. Personality wise I say a mix of Mr. Burns and Donald Trump.

White Magician:
A small time magician who made a deal the Dark Gods to grant him great power and turns out to be a spy for Godwatch or Villainy Inc

Kung:
An elderly martial artist mercenary who always sneaks away from a fight with Wonder Woman

Blue Snowman:
An engineer who steals the heart of a magical ice creature (maybe Jack Frost) and uses to fuel her robotic ice suit.

[scary harpy]

You want obscure characters? You got it!

(Unfortunately, many Fawcett, Nedor and Quality characters ‘owned’ by DC are in the public domain now. So, I will try my best to create a derivative work.)


Slade James (nee Tor the Magic Master)
Slade James: 1941, Crack Comics #10. Lucy Stone is a photojournalist. She also operates as the magician superhero Slade James which helps her in her career getting photos and stories and such. While many magicians operated as stage magicians and fought crimes in tuxes and such that they seemed to wear on stage and everywhere, Slade James is one where the suit, and cape are all part of her disguise and not a stage persona. Slade seems to favor earth elemental magic.

Brien Obrien (or Bryan Obryan) (nee The Clock)
His real identity unknown (Justin Wright), this District Attorney and wealthy member of high society became the infamous Brien Obrien (or Bryan Obryan) in order to take a more proactive role in crime-fighting. As Obrien (or Obryan), he wore a three-piece suit, a fedora, and a black curtain mask that covered his entire face. Both the Law and the Underworld are unsure of who's side he's on.

As well as having indeterminate powers, Obrien (or Obryan) is an accomplished hypnotist, ventriloquist, pilot, boxer, chemist, inventor, investigator, safecracker, vocal mimic, and master of disguise. After working completely solo for years, he was aided in his endeavors by the 'Pug', and by an girl named Butch.

Obrien (or Obryan) undeniably had a bit of a dark side. He was also somewhat reckless, both driving and flying. Obrien (or Obryan) also has a long-time habit of leaving calling cards and witty notes at crime scenes and on arrested suspects; he usually left behind a calling card bearing the image of a clock-face over a domino mask and the words "The Clock Has Struck" or "The Clock Will Strike At..." with no explanation of what this means.

[scary harpy]

From my posts, I'm sure you can tell I think DC has left untapped the potential of many golden-age heroes/villains. They really only need some minimal updating.

Sadly, I don't think this potential will be developed. Didio was not interested. The new TPTB are interested in IPs and merchandise.

oh well...what will be...will be.

Star Ruby (nee Ruby Ryder)
Brave and the Bold #95 (April 1971)
World's wealthiest woman and major organized crime figure; Ruby Ryder is obsessed with Art Nouveau. As Star Ruby, she dresses in, decorates with and steals this style of art.

[Incognito]

Puppeteer

A living marionette who has the power to generate mystical threads and takes control over motor functions of humanoid forms, whether living, dead or objects as if they were a marionette. She is also able to affect conceptual and abstract thread, such as fate, relationship or communication.

Trajectory

Since Godspeed is sadly gone I would like to see Trajectory coming back but this time as an anti-hero Speedster. Dr Eliza Harmon is a young scientist who works at S.T.A.R Labs who are studying the Speed Force, trying to understand fully about the cosmic energy field she was secretly hired by H.I.V.E to covertly siphon some of The Flash (or any other Speed Force User)'s energy and stored it in a battery to put into a specialised suit where she can learn about it but then it backfired, it causes a malfunction and it killed most of her co-workers at S.T.A.R Labs within the vicinity, and it transforms her into a sort of living anomaly.

[the nomad]

Wildcat- Ted Grant

Wildcat is at the end of his career and he is all but forgotten however he is given a cancer Diagnosis, that will he will die from in the next 6-7 months. And so Ted goes to make amends with old friends all the while making a list of the 10 worst villains in the DC universe that he knows he can fight. And knowing that he's not going to survive, and refusing to accept that these villains get to live, he's going to kill them before dying.

[Mutant God]

Whirlicane:
A scientist and criminal who forces countries to pay him for his powers to power wind turbines

[Agent Z]

Volcana, Vibe, Silver Deer and Cynthia Reynolds are now agents of the DMA (Department of Metahuman Affairs) aiding metahumans and stopping the bad ones from hurting others.

Koryak, Miya Shimada and Neptune Perkins are Atlantian-human hybrids on a team with Lorena and Jackson.

Akila of the Bana is a scientist and sorceress.

Delilah Tyler and Jill Carlyle are part of a Shadow Fighters team. Delilah has the power to make herself and others invisible. Jill can turn intangible.

[Incognito]

Pantha

Rosella Mendez is a street-level hero who was given a totem mask and was empowered by the Mayan God, Tezcatlipoca, who was bestowed with supernatural physical capabilities such as strength, speed, senses and predatory instincts of a panther.

Red Star

Leonid Kovar was a soldier who has undergone a secret government project, Project: Red Star, to be transformed into a supersoldier by being injected with the bodily fluids of a Tamaranean corpse exposed with extra-stellar energy, imbuing him with superhuman physical attributes and the power to generate radiation and heat.

[scary harpy]

• Bandar (More Fun #70; Spectre foe) - a mystic & sorceror; leads the Crimson Circle cult.
  
• Black Doom (More Fun #66; Spectre foe) - grotesque hunchback; controls monster-creating cloud
• Deeja Kathoon (More Fun #67; Spectre foe) - bald, with a forked goatee; an evil sorceror.
  
• Gilroy, Gustaf/Gustave (More Fun #16) - uses alchemy to impersonate Spectre; turns foes into gold.
• Hjalmar, Dane (More Fun #97; Spectre foe) - a neurologist who invents a nerve-impulse-interrupt-ray.
  
• Kaiti Luigi (More Fun #78; Spectre foe) - pits his mastery of hypnotism against the Spectre.
• Maligno (More Fun #77; Spectre foe) - looks like the Phantom of the Opera; can magically alter and control the elements.
  
• Oom (All Star Comics #3; Spectre foe) - big grey statue; commands magic dragon; magical powers; from the planet Yzgartyl.
• Spectrum (More Fun #80; Spectre foe) - a caped figure with what looks like a disco ball on his head; it projects emotion-affecting/manipulating colors.
• Xnon (More Fun #60; Spectre foe) - a super-scientist; his voice creates super-hypnotism; wears armor; uses a "power-rod."

The most important aspect of their revamp is to NOT have the Spectre as an opponent; they might actually survive that way.

[scary harpy]

• ? (More Fun #67; Dr. Fate foe) - The demonic figure depicted battling Dr. Fate on the cover does not actually appear.
• Nergal (More Fun #67; Dr. Fate foe) - a demon from the underworld who sends ghosts to haunt mortals.
• Haldane the Sorceror (More Fun #63; Dr. Fate foe) - an evil sorcerer.
• Mango the Mighty (More Fun #57; Dr. Fate foe) - an evil sorcerer.
• Mr. Who (More Fun #73; Dr. Fate foe) - uses "Solution Z" which can (even to animals/insects) regenerate lost limbs, gives supersize and super-strength, invulnerability, invisibility/chameleon; revamped as a sorcerer in All-Star Squadron.
• wizard (More Fun #58; Dr. Fate foe) (is never actually named in the story) - tries to overcome Dr. Fate in a battle-of-spells.

They are Doctor Fate foes.

They could become revamped foes of many Justice Leaguers...they're sorcerers! They could be a threat to anyone.

[hareluyafan1]

Veda, the Cobra Woman (nee Veda Kane)
Veda, the Cobra Woman: January 1942, Police Comics #6. Slinky Veda was an exotic Indian dancer who married the wealthy American Peter Kane. She then put cobra poison on her lips to kill both Kane and his drunken son with a kiss, in order to gain their fortune. Her plot was foiled by Chic Carter.

I'm no toxicologist but I'm pretty sure cobra venom needs to be injected into the bloodstream to be harmful. Still, it could easily be updated to be a toxin derived from cobra venom.

Anyway, some neat suggestions.

[Incognito]

I was looking at some more minor Teen Titans characters that I can revamp.

Argent

Antonia 'Toni' Monetti is a social media influencer with a public identity, she shows her followers about her day-to-day life and superhero adventures.

Osprey (nee The Protector)

Jason Hart is a street-level vigilante who was inspired by Dick Grayson during his time as Robin, he was extensively trained in combat by both Wildcat and Black Canary. He protects his neighbourhood from thieves, drug-lords, traffickers, etc.

Gemstone (nee Kole)

Kole Weathers was a test subject of her father's experiment, the promethium activated her metagene allowing her to transform into a living organic crystalline to generate crystals from her body and interface with computers.

Mas y Menos

Guatemalan twins, Angel and Zacarias were victims of the Speed Force Storm granting both of them a connection but fractured variation to the Speed Force so they both need to be in contact to use their powers.