Golden Age Wildcat (Ted Grant) Appreciation 2021

[MajorHoy]

First appearance: Sensation Comics #1 (January 1942)



(to be continued . . . )

[Will Evans]

It seems going forward we’ll have Ted and Yolanda for synergy. I guess Ted’s son Tom Bronson is stuck in limbo.

[Frontier]

Happy New Year Wildcat .

[MajorHoy]

First appearance: Sensation Comics #1 (January 1942) . . .


(to be continued . . . )

Here's the rest of that first story:

[MajorHoy]

from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe Vol. XXV (March 1987)

[MajorHoy]

from JSA Secret Files #1 (August 1999)

[Lightning Rider]

Love me some Wildcat. Would love to write a mini or ongoing with him.

[signalman112]

Wildcat by Irwin Hasen.


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[MajorHoy]

From Sensation Comics #2 (February 1942):

to be continued . . .

[John Venus]

Is it the same Joan whom Jay Garrick dated or did both of them date two different women with the same name?

[MajorHoy]

Is it the same Joan whom Jay Garrick dated or did both of them date two different women with the same name?

I doubt they were the same character.

Besides, I don't think "Joan" was necessarily an uncommon name back then.

[MajorHoy]

From 52 #23 (December 2006):

[MajorHoy]

By the way, Wildcat got a figure in the Imaginext "DC Super Friends" series:



NOTE: Images taken from internet.

The code for Wildcat's figure is "04" on the back.

[achilles]

From 52 #23 (December 2006):

Looking at his skills list, er, no. Capoeira is fun to watch and do, and mostly useless in a fight, Krav is fine in theory, but in practice is largely garbage with uneven instruction, Hapkido...yeah, it's got kicks and stuff, but anyone who relies on it in a real fight likely has a nickname at the local coroner's office, "John Doe #4", in a tag on their toe. Also, there's no real theme there; they are all wildly incompatible fighting styles. You don't box someone and suddenly throw a capoeira move...it wouldn't work.

Yes, Muai Thai is really all it's cracked up to be and mixes very well with boxing...but if the guys who wrote that had done a lick of research, they would have known it isn't needed if he does in fact practice boxing as it was done prior to about the 1860s, when it was essentially a no rules affair that had everything. If Ted knows that, and he should, he doesn't need anything else, save maybe dome weapons training, perhaps some sort of escrima. Or if they want to be original, something like HEMA training, though that only really got started fairly recently IIRC. That would meld with boxing, and give him everything else he'd need, from grappling to every sort of weapon.

I wonder, BTW, how many bad guys he defeated simply because they were rolling on the floor laughing at his costume...