It does some, but I personally never got the impression Karkull's effect was that potent. A few years maybe even a few decades, but at this point we're needing it to plant another 40-50 years of life minimum on these characters. If DC were to state that the effect was that potent, I'd accept it.
I’ll don the mask and wear the cape
If I am super, how can I wait?
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Yeah, he's basically immortal like Alan and Jay. His only other superpower is night vision.
His lives regenerate. He'd have to take nine mortal blows in quick succession to be killed, otherwise he resets. Read JSA #31.
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He already did. In the JSA Classified series he convinced Jay Garrick to kill him 9 times in rapid succession so Ted can be immune to the effects of the Spear of Destiny.
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It's a simple, elegant solution. But the lives that regenerate thing is kind of dumb. It turns him into an immortal or, worse yet, closer to Marvel's Wolverine.What I like about many of the Golden Agers is they weren't overly powered. At least a greater fraction of them were normal humans who put on a costume and mask and may have been touched by weirdness. Dr. Mid-Nites or Wildcat, or Sandman, ot Atom (up until his later years). Even Hawkman and Hawkgirl basically had wings and an anti-grav thingamabob.
I’ll don the mask and wear the cape
If I am super, how can I wait?
Yeah, it needs to be a finite thing, able to get him up to today as a relatively young man, but no further. In the here and now, he should be as powerless as any normal person in the DCU. A skilled, conditioned, and experienced boxer, the best in fact, but still a mere mortal.
Wildcat's nine lives thing is totally ridiculous -- but you know what, that's okay. Comics can be ridiculous. We constantly suspend disbelief in comics, I don't know why people have such a hard time suspending disbelief when it comes to these very old heroes still being around. Whether they're long-lived, or went into limbo for years, it's not something to get stuck on IMO. Just pick an explanation and hand wave any details. If the writing is good people don't really care. Marvel does it all the time.
Exactly, he already has a really close relationship with both Canaries. Having him be with the first Canary seems like a pretty obvious thing to me for those two reasons, him already having that close relationship with her, and already behaving like a grandpa to the younger one