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How many solo books has Jay Garrick had since his 1961 return?
AKA FlashFreak
Favorite Characters:
DC: The Flash (Jay & Wally), Starman- Jack Knight, Stargirl, & Shazam!.
MARVEL: Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), & Doctor Strange.
Current Pulls: Not a thing!
Yeah, this is his first solo book since the golden age Flash Comics ended.
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"Has Sariel summoned you here, Azrael? Have you come to witness the miracle of your brethren arriving on Earth?"
"I WILL MIX THE ASHES OF YOUR BONES WITH SALT AND USE THEM TO ENSURE THE EARTH THE TEMPLARS TILLED NEVER BEARS FRUIT AGAIN!"
"*sigh* I hoped it was for the miracle."
Dan Watters' Azrael was incredible, a constant delight and perhaps too good for this world (but not the Forth). For the love of St. Dumas, DC, give us more!!!
Not really. Remember, most superhero books from DC ended in the early 1950s or were changed to mostly non-superhero features.
Superheroes did start making a resurgence after Showcase #4 presented a new, updated version of The Flash, but it's not as if DC suddenly revived a bunch of the Golden Age characters as they were in their own solo titles. Aside from the Golden Age era Wonder Woman taking over the Wonder Woman comic book for about a year or so back in the 1970s (when she was the focus of a major network TV show), very few of the Golden Age characters have had their own solo books in the Silver Age or later. (And those characters who might have, like Superman, Batman, Green Arrow, Aquaman, etc., were basically newer somewhat separate versions of those Golden Age characters.)
Most superhero books, period. Wasn't it only Detective, Batman, Action, Superman, Superboy, Wonder Woman, and Adventure (which housed Aquaman and Green Arrow as well as being a second home for Superboy) which continued without switching genres or being cancelled? All of which were National (DC) books. Timely/Atlas, the company that later became Marvel, tried reviving Captain America a couple of times, but it didn't stick. Captain Marvel's line got cancelled due to DC's lawsuit, putting Fawcett out of the superhero comics business for good.
And I think it's the same for Alan Scott too, his mini will be his first series since the original Green Lantern book was cancelled.
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Solo mini, yep, I think you’re right. He co-headlined “Green Lantern/Sentinel: Heart of Darkness” 1-3 and the horribly-named one-shot “Underworld Unleashed: Abyss - Hell’s Sentinel,” and the prestige format “Green Lantern: Brightest Day, Blackest Night,” and he had a permanent feature in “Green Lantern Corp Quarterly” (but of course, that was an anthology). And the Solomon Grundy mini kind of doubled as an Alan Scott mini, but of course his name wasn’t in the title.