Dan Hagen
Anchor and Assistant News Director at WJFW-TV (Rhinelander, WI)
Evening anchor for @WJFW12. I love Wisco, cheese, skiing.
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4 days ago |
firstcomicsnews.com | Dan Hagen
The Hulk is undoubtedly the only major superhero character who was initially cancelled after only six issues. At any company but Marvel, that would have spelled the end for him. But by the time the Hulk’s last issue was published in March 1963, writer/editor Stan Lee was integrating Marvel’s titles into a close-knit universe, so that the Hulk need not necessarily vanish.
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5 days ago |
firstcomicsnews.com | Dan Hagen
Almost all funny animal superheroes from the 1940s through the 1960s were inspired by the most popular hero of the day, Superman. But not this one. “I was in Hollywood,” Batman co-creator Bob Kane told comics historian Will Murray, “and I was always interested in animation. I met this animated studio head — his name was (Sam) Singer — and we were out one night and he said, ‘We’re looking for some new stuff.
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6 days ago |
firstcomicsnews.com | Dan Hagen
How do you build a story around an effectively omnipotent hero? Well, one way is to team him up with another character who’s vulnerable. That’s what scripter Mike Friedrich and artist Neal Adams did in the third issue of the Spectre’s short-lived 1960s title. Interdimensional forces accidentally empower “Sad” Jack Dold, making him the main problem of the story. But Ted Grant is also troubled by the inevitable dimming of his abilities with age in the story Hang ’Em Up, Wildcat — You’re Finished.
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1 week ago |
firstcomicsnews.com | Dan Hagen
Scarecrows were on DC Comics’ long list of things presumed to fascinate children, along with gorillas, dinosaurs, puppets, sphinxes, tops, giant props and various other fanciful items. In The Flash 118 (Feb. 1961), the Scarlet Speedster’s cover gimmick — racing to catch a bullet being shot at a scarecrow from a helicopter — turned out to be just that.
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1 week ago |
firstcomicsnews.com | Dan Hagen
Magnus was, essentially, Tarzan of the Robots. “A robot fighter in 4,000 A.D., he has been specially trained from birth by Robot 1A to have the speed and power to karate chop and destroy automatons that have gone rogue,” observed comic book historian Mike Conroy.
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