by Joe Palmer | Dec 28, 2009 | LGBTQ+ Characters
Contributed by Michael McDermott Ned Campbell was a quadriplegic mutant living in the “Mutant Town” ghetto in New York. His wife, Carol, believed that he was having an affair by way of his astral projection powers. During the night she would hear him call...
by Joe Palmer | Nov 11, 2009 | LGBTQ+ Characters
Marisol is the red-haired woman that Madame Xanadu takes as her lover during the late 15th century in Spain just after the beginning of the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition. Her parents have died and seems to be without other relatives when Xanadu arrives in...
by Joe Palmer | Oct 25, 2009 | LGBTQ+ Characters
Strawberry-blond Curtis Doyle is first seen meeting a group of friends at their local hangout, the Happy Sunrise Diner in Greenwich Village. The friends make small talk and point out to Curtis that the waiter, Jeffrey, is flirting with him. Later outside the diner...
by Joe Palmer | Oct 24, 2009 | LGBTQ+ Characters
Creote and Savant are first seen in Bird of Prey #56. Creote, a Soviet Special Forces operative, may have wandered throughout Europe after the dissolution of the USSR. He may have encountered Savant in Greece and formed a partnership or later upon coming to Gotham...
by Joe Palmer | Sep 7, 2009 | Articles
James Robinson’s Star Man, set in a fictional city to which Robinson had given palpable character, was a series that I looked forward with much anticipation to reading during its monthly run. It was smart writing chock full of great characterization and...