A Lost Gem
The King is someone I’d never heard of before my most recent round of reading. He’s recently gotten the legacy treatment, and his son/grandson/whathaveyou has joined the JSA. The King’s shtick is he’s such an amazing master of disguise that no-one has ever seen his actual face – not even the reader. As hooks go, it’s a nice one.
They also throw in the old-hat (even at that early point) “the cops think he’s a criminal, and the criminals think he’s a rival criminal” hook, but it doesn’t play as well here as it did in The Sandman. However, it helps set the dynamic with his arch-foe, The Witch. She’s basically The King in a dress, a criminal mistress of disguise who uses dimwitted thugs.
This isn’t like Batman/Catwoman. We’re talking about a murderer. It’s also different from Zatara and the Tigress – we never actually see him let her go. For all we know, she escapes.
Time and again, The King lets the Witch walk, no matter what crime she has commited.
Class.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Is it just me, or are early comics rather impatient with stories? They could have spent several issues building up the whole mutual attraction thing, but instead they dump it into a few panels.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
King Chimera is actually the son of The King and the Witch. So he gave her plenty of “lessons”…. *lol*
November 6th, 2009 at 3:41 am
Is there any Golden Age character who hasn't been legacied into the JSA at this point?
November 6th, 2009 at 4:01 am
I've found a few. I'm currently dreaming up the return of Captain
Desmo, flying ace who never, ever took his funny little hat off.
My theory is he was Jewish.
November 6th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Is there any Golden Age character who hasn’t been legacied into the JSA at this point?
November 6th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
I’ve found a few. I’m currently dreaming up the return of CaptainrnDesmo, flying ace who never, ever took his funny little hat off.rnrnMy theory is he was Jewish.
November 6th, 2009 at 7:06 am
“Good-looking”? He's either blind or very cruel. She has the worst case of wall-eye I've ever seen. Marty Feldman had nothing on her.
November 6th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
“Good-looking”? He’s either blind or very cruel. She has the worst case of wall-eye I’ve ever seen. Marty Feldman had nothing on her.rnrn