Magog/David Reid's lineage

[DrSimonHurt]

re-reading some old JSA. I know David Reid(Magog) was said to be the great-Grandson of president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Did the comics ever explain the nature of his lineage? I don't see where the name "Reid" fits personally. If Michael Reid(David's father) was the grandson of FDR, then his last name should still be Roosevelt.

I know it's a comic book thing, but I just want to know if it was ever clarified how they were really related. FDR has a very publically known family and there are no Reids in it. But he also never knew Jay Garrick in real life, either.

[JimmyOlsenMustDie]

It was never explained but - it's the DCU, so I wouldn't expect his parents to exist in real life, and presumably he isn't related entirely patrilinearly to FDR, meaning that along the line somewhere there was a woman Roosevelt who got married and changed her name.

re-reading some old JSA. I know David Reid(Magog) was said to be the great-Grandson of president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Did the comics ever explain the nature of his lineage? I don't see where the name "Reid" fits personally. If Michael Reid(David's father) was the grandson of FDR, then his last name should still be Roosevelt.

I know it's a comic book thing, but I just want to know if it was ever clarified how they were really related. FDR has a very publically known family and there are no Reids in it. But he also never knew Jay Garrick in real life, either.

[Moriarty]

i don't think it was ever explained. they really didn't even mention the Roosevelt connection very much, even in his own title.

[Bruce Kent]

It was simply an excuse to put him in the JSA.

[JSA]

let's just pretend that Magog never existed

[DrSimonHurt]

let's just pretend that Magog never existed

No.

And I am going to ask questions about him. I like his character.

[Moriarty]

when they added Magog to JSA i was irritated. i figured they would build him up and then he'd turn evil and the JSA would have to put him down. i was surprised they didn't go that direction. i enjoyed his ongoing and all his JSA appearances.

[JimmyOlsenMustDie]

let's just pretend that Magog never existed

Do we have to pretend? I haven't seen him in the New 52.

[JSA]

Do we have to pretend? I haven't seen him in the New 52.

thanks god Captain Atom killed Magog

One of the many reasons i love JLGL

[Mr. Holmes]

Is he related to Harry Reid?

[Flash Gordon]

I might be one of the only people that enjoyed the whole Gog story Johns did in JSA. I thought it was real good.

Yeah, Magog sucks though. Let him never haunt the pages of a comic again.