Shortly after the 1960s Batman TV show aired, comic-book Bruce Wayne lost his drawn-with-straight-lines jaw and started to look something like Adam West.
Shortly after the 1960s Batman TV show aired, comic-book Bruce Wayne lost his drawn-with-straight-lines jaw and started to look something like Adam West.
Beverly Allen, the Bee--with honey and stinger.
"If humans have souls, then clones will have them, too."--Arthur Caplan
Fairbanks was a tremendous consequential influence defining the industry...
There was influence form many places, from mythology to the pulps, etc.
Yet it really is worth emphasizing, how much this one man, the movies and characters he played (while Keaton/Lloyd were more slapstick) Fairbanks essentially invented the action-hero movie for that gen.) helped define what would become two of the most significant characters in comics history. Superman and Batman
And while Lloyd became Kent's alter ego. Fairbanks garnered their hero template.
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A name, not a look...:
According to comics historian Bill Schelly in American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1950s, DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz, who oversaw the creation of the character in 1956, recalled that the “Flash’s secret identity of Barry Allen was a combination of two show business personalities he was fond of in those days, radio talk-show host Barry Gray and humorist Steve Allen.”
Darwyn Cookie's Hal Jordan was based upon a young Burt Lancaster
The guy with glasses looks a lot like James Cromwell of L.A. Confidential and more than one Star Trek role.
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There is an online/digital mag called 'Back Issue', and in issue #38 they have a story called "The Perplexing Popularity of the Wonder Twins", and they discuss the whole Donny and Marie connection. The image you posted above with the dolls is actually used in the article.
You can see it here. Just enlarge the issue and skim through until you find the article. If you look at the page numbers of the digital comic, the article starts on page 59.
https://twomorrows.com/index.php?mai...roducts_id=842
There may be some plausible deniability with Rihanna and Katy Perry, but Stewart was so blatantly drawing Lady Gaga that I was surprised editorial wasn't worried about a lawsuit.
Ray Palmer was originally modeled to look like movie star Robert Taylor:
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Green Lantern (John Stewart) was originally patterned after Sidney Poitier, but I see him as more of a Denzel Washington.
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There was that one Superman villain who was initially designed to look like Noomi Rapace from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
The final look wound up being drastically different though.
(The New 52 was a hotbed of bad ideas.)
Golden Age sidekick Doiby Dickles was modeled after character actor Edward Brophy.
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... and Asa Ezaak was modeled after my favorite science fiction writer:
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Golden Age Flash's friends Winky, Blinky, and Noddy are modeled on Moe, Larry, and Curly.