Interesting characters created in the 70's

[berk]

A lot of the characters Kirby created for his solo books at DC and Marvel:

Orion
Barda
Mister Miracle
Darkseid
The Demon
OMAC
Thena
The Reject
Karkas
Sersi
etc, etc

Shang Chi and the rest of the MoKF cast:
Reston
Leiko Wu
Tarr (or was he a pre-existing character, like Nayland Smith?)

Mantis, in Englehart's Avengers

the supporting cast in Gerber's Man-Thing series:
Dakimh
Jennnifer Kale
Korrek
Thog

I always liked the idea behind Ulysses Bloodstone, but his stories were too scattered to get a handle on.

[GavinR]

Couple of Chaykin creations:

Ironwolf
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I loved Ironwolf...I really wish they had done an ongoing series with that character.

[T GUy]

A lot of the characters Kirby created for his solo books at DC and Marvel:

Orion
Barda
Mister Miracle
Darkseid
The Demon
OMAC
Thena
The Reject
Karkas
Sersi
etc, etc

Too right.

I was going to say either 'Sersi is made of teh win' or 'I'll see your Sersi and raise you Aurelie,' then looked a little further up your list and saw the words ''Thena' and 'The Reject' and realised that there are a large number of superb characters created by Kirby during this period.

Shang Chi and the rest of the MoKF cast:
Reston
Leiko Wu
Tarr (or was he a pre-existing character, like Nayland Smith?)

I think Tarr is a Moench creation - i cannot recall him from any of the (few) Fu books I've read.

Mantis, in Englehart's Avengers

I'd get behind this one.

[T GUy]

I loved Ironwolf...I really wish they had done an ongoing series with that character.

They did. It's just that the ongoingness didn't go on for very long.

[Shellhead]

Punisher
White Tiger
Killraven and his whole supporting cast (my favorites were M'Shulla and Old Skull)
Greer Nelson
Sabre (the character created by Don McGregor)
Thundra
Brother Voodoo
Ms. Marvel
Nomad (aka Steve Rogers)

[hondobrode]

Just a few...

Wolverine
Nightcrawler
Storm
Collosus
Mystique
Sabretooth
Luke Cage
Iron Fist
Ghost Rider
Moon Knight
Nova
Captain Britain
Psylocke - New Mutants Annual # 2 (1986)
Power Girl
Darkseid
Mr. Miracle
Big Barda
The Forever People
Shang-Chi
Black Lightning
Spider-Woman
Black Lightning
John Stewart (Green Lantern)
Ra's al Ghul
Talia al Ghul
Multiple Man
Rocket Raccoon - Incredible Hulk # 271 (1982)

A couple of those were close but not quite in the 70's.

[hondobrode]

Blade and all the cast from ToD
Hellcat (I know that Patsy is from the 40s but Hellcat is distinctively different)
James Michael Starling
Richard Rory
Jennifer Kale
Tamara
Modred the Mystic
Daimon Hellstrom
Satana
N'Kantu
Wundarr
Nikki
Starhawk
Foolkiller
Thanos
Magus
Gamora
Drax
Pip the Troll
Eros
Mentor
50s Captain America - technically it was Young Men # 24 (1953)

It's splitting hairs, but that character actually did appear back in the 50's.

[Scott Harris]

A couple of those were close but not quite in the 70's.

While she didn't appear in American comics as Psylocke until 1986, Betsy Braddock first appeared in Captain Britain #8, the 70's weekly superhero comic published by Marvel's England branch.

Depends on how you look at it, I guess.

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[hondobrode]

While she didn't appear in American comics as Psylocke until 1986, Betsy Braddock first appeared in Captain Britain #8, the 70's weekly superhero comic published by Marvel's England branch.

Depends on how you look at it, I guess.

Yes it does. I thought her first appearance as Psylocke was her first appearance ever, including Betsy Braddock.

[Scott Harris]

Yes it does. I thought her first appearance as Psylocke was her first appearance ever, including Betsy Braddock.

I thought that too for a long time, but she was a regular supporting character int he 70's Captain Britain weekly, beginning in late 1976. Her first appearance is in #8:



Here's one little, completely out of context scan of her first panels:



She honestly doesn't do a whole hell of a lot at the beginning; I have a TPB that collects the first 23 issues or so of this comic and she basically crashes a plane or something and has a couple weird psychic episodes and that's more or less it.

Copies of this comic can be occasionally found at comic shows for like $50. They are kind of hard to find and hard to store as well because they are oversized format.

[Mormel]

Ms. Marvel

I was thinking of Ms. Marvel when I first read this thread title, but as with Betsy Braddock first appearing in the 70s before taking on the identity of Psylocke in the 1980s, I figured Carol Danvers first appearance was in the 1960s.

However, one of my personal favourites who started out as on of Ms. Marvel's enemies, is Deathbird:



Why do I find Deathbird so cool? Well, it's because in those early appearances in Ms. Marvel, she seemed to have a warrior's code of honour. This code prevented her from letting innocent bystanders fall to their deaths during a rematch with Carol, but didn't keep her from landing a hilariously cheap sucker punch on Carol immediately after. Nonetheless, I thought that her 'warrior's pride' was pretty cool, beside her striking visual appearance, and her power set.
I think that's the way Deathbird should be written; some later appearances have her play the role of a sneaky backstabber, because she's a usurper (to the throne of the Shi'ar). And a lot of writers equate usurper with treacherous coward, because so many fictional characters as well as historical figures have been that way. But while Deathbird certainly is a conniver, she also loves the thrill of fight, and she has the power and skill to hold her own on the battlefield. Last time I saw the REAL Deathbird, it was when she was hanging out with Bishop. Not the pale shadow that was at the side of Vulcan in the recent X-Men space romps and the War of Kings crossover event.

[Shellhead]

Carol Danvers did appear in the '60s, but not as Ms. Marvel. So did Bill Foster, but not as Black Goliath, which is why I left him off my list. It makes sense to exclude Carol for the same reason.\

So let's replace her with Bobbi Morse, who first appeared in the Ka-Zar run in Astonishing Tales.

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