Batman debuted in 1939, but so did a lot of heroes and villains in the Public Domain. Your challenge this week is to visit the link below and redesign a superhero or villain that also debuted in 1939.
http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Category:1939_Debuts
There is no limit on the number of entries. Please read the contest rules before entering, have fun and good luck. The contest will close at 9:00am Eastern on Sunday, October 2nd.
Rules for posts, contests, and challenges: Original characters only, no copyrighted characters, no characters based on copyrighted characters, no characters based on RPG’s or other games. The characters must be your own design and not based on any character that might be copyrighted in any way. I have the right to delete any post that I believe crosses this line without warning. Only post characters that you have either created for this contest specifically or you know for certain have never been entered to a contest before. If you aren’t certain, don’t enter it, because I’m not going to go back through all of the contests and check.
All entries must be in JPG or PNG form (BMPs are too big), posted to a publicly accessible website (like the HeroMachine :,ImageShack, PhotoBucket, or whatever);
- Entries must be made as a comment or comments to this post, containing a link directly to the image and the character name;
- Please name your filesas [your name]-[character name].[file extension] before you upload it. So DiCicatriz, for instance, would save his “Bayou Belle” character image as DiCicatriz-BayouBelle.png.
Please make the link go directly to the image (like this) and not to a hosting jump page (like this).
Entry “1 – The Flame
Real Name: Gary Preston, but now goes by Mary Preston
Current Alias: the Flame
Nicknames: The Flamer, Flame Girl, Flambe’, Caliente
STATUS
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: Adventurer
Identity: Secret
Alignment: Good
Group Affiliation:
Base of Operations: New York
CHARECTERISTICS
Gender: Male although wears makeup and calls herself she.
Height: 5′ 11”
Weight: 185 lbs.
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Brown
HISTORY
When Gary was a baby, his father Charles Preston worked as a missionary in China.
The elder Preston was washed away in a flood, but managed to save baby Gary by placing him in a basket.
The basket was washed downstream to Tibet, where Gary was rescued by a group of lamas.
They raised Gary in the lamasary, where they trained him in their mystical ways.
Through this training, Gary has super human strength.
He also obtained the ability to control and direct any fire and heat in his presence.
He can raise his own body temperature to point where he can burst into flames, or melt bullets.
He can also teleport from place to place by appearing inside of any fire source, no matter how small.
The Flame’s one weakness is water, which can severely weaken him.
He no longer needs a small, pistol-sized flame thrower to create flame..
When he reached adulthood, Gary returned to America to fight crime as The Flame
After Flame was injured battling the Octopus resulting from stress due to identity crisis he was feeling.
He started to wear makeup to become who he felt he truly was. and took on the name Mary Preston, While some called her the Flamer or Flame Girl, Mary just called herself The Flame as before.
She drives a vintage Firebird.
The Flame was the first hero trapped in Pandora’s Urn.
The Fighting Yank captured her during the Battle of Kokura.
Her power was needed to keep the other heroes alive within the Urn.
After the Urn was broken, the Flame reappeared in Los Angeles.
In a panic and momentarily unable to control her powers, she inadvertently started a wildfire that caused the Hollywood sign to catch fire.
The fire was put out by the returning Hydro.
Hydro, the Flame and Pyroman battled Dynamic Boy in a brief encounter that resulted in Pyroman electrocuting Dynamic Boy.
As the trio was about to be arrested, they were found by the Green Lama and other heroes.
Mood Music: The Pointer Sisters – Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H08x9nddyXs
Body:
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_NanaNanaNanaNOTBatman_The%20Flame_zpsevvb4agl.jpg
Head:
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_NanaNanaNanaNOTBatman_The%201b_zpseiq3fivv.jpg
Entry 1 – The Crimson Rider –
Real Name: Mary Benton
Current Alias: The Crimson Rider
Nicknames: Crimson Rider, Rider in Red
STATUS
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: Equestrian Rider, Gunman
Identity: Unmasked
Group Affiliation: Yes; Wilton of the West and Snorty
CHARACTERISTICS
Gender:Female
Height: 5′ 8”
Weight: 135 lbs.
Hair: Orange
Eyes: Green
HISTORY
When her parents were murdered Mary took on the persona “The Crimson Rider” and became a vigilante loking to avenge her parents deaths.
Body + Before and after pics:
https://www.docdroid.net/S5PhyAJ/untitleddocument.docx.html
Body:
http://i63.tinypic.com/144tao.jpg
@Trixie Burkswell
For some reason I cannot see your entry…just a barrage of pop up ads. You might want to start a page in the forums or try Deviant Art or another posting site.
I couldn’t resist.
Here’s Six-Gun Gorilla, the first “super Gorilla” developed by Hawke Industries, supposedly based upon the DNA brought back by the Wilde-Carter expedition to the jungles of the “Lost World”. As a youngster, he escaped from the Nevada secret laboratories of Hawke industries and was taken in by pair of eccentric old miners. He lived with them several years until one day Dr. H. Horace Hawke her a rumor that led his people to the mines. The miners, fearing corporate claim jumpers put up a fight and were killed by the Hawke Industry agents. The gorilla escaped and swore vengeance. Armed with a mix of antique and modern weapons, he became known as the Six-Gun Gorilla and has harassed Dr. Hawke and Hawke Industries ever since.
http://www.eldacur.com/~brons/Comics/Brons-Six-Gun%20Gorilla.png
(original 1939 edition: http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Six-Gun_Gorilla)
I decided to tackle the nigh omnipotent god-like super wizard known as Stardust.
THE ORIGINAL: http://bit.ly/2cUnJNa
MY TAKE: http://bit.ly/2d8x45l
Entry #2 Doll Man
Gave him longer hair,
a darker uniform as most Superhero movies do now a days,
added gloves similar to the shoes,
and although I didn’t set out to do it,
once I realized it,
I did actively contine to make him look like …
Vinnie Barbarino
aka John Travolta circa Welcome Back Kotter. :
MOOD MUSIC: The Dresden Dolls – Coin Operated Boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4gPZPKJc0s
ORIGINAL:
http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Doll_Man
ENTRY #2
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_NanaNanaNanaNOTBatman_DollMan01a_zpso61dkxsd.jpg
FACE:
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_NanaNanaNanaNOTBatman_DollMan01b_zpsta7ucj7i.jpg
Entry #3 Jungleman
OK a Jungleman by anyother name is still a Tarzan wannabe.
And keeping with my Half naked guy theme, I figured a Jungleman just standing there might look like any other
SO I went for a differnent pose the the heroic face forward muscle pose stance …
Earth – Jungleman
Air – Black Condor
Fire -Flame (OK wasn’t half naked)
Water – Namore
And Doll Man … ummmm .. I guess since Flame wasn’t have naked
LOL 😀
MOOD MUSIC: african drums – congo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifhUuvDRreA&list=PLeJDQ0LKRy9RGzmjFfokWJjQr8vJ55Pxn&index=2
ORIGINAL:
http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Jungleman
ENTRY #3
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_NanaNanaNanaNOTBatman_Jungleman_zpslctcisx6.jpg
Entry #4 Jungleman Triumphant
OK so I thought about another pose for Jungleman
ENTRY #4
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_NanaNanaNanaNOTBatman_JunglemanTriumphant_zpsmmt1o29w.jpg
Hi, all – I’m MarkH. You can call me Mark.
This is my first-ever contest entry. It’s definitely not as good as some of the other work I’ve seen submitted her, but I figured I would give it a go anyways. This is an “updated” version of the Golden Age hero “Doll Man” in the form of his granddaughter, the Amazing “Doll Woman!” (Yes, I know there was also a Golden Age “Doll Girl” – read on!). Actually, one of the first comics I ever remember reading as a kid was a reprint comic that had a lot of features from the Golden Age of comics. One of them was a Doll Man story! So, he was actually one of the first superheroes – other than Superman – that I was ever exposed to as a child….
CONTEST ENTRY (DOLL WOMAN – UPDATE OF DOLL MAN AND DOLL GIRL):
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/mharrison67/markh-dollwoman.jpg
1939 edition:
http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/7/dollman10_al_bryant.gif
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/f/f2/Doll_Girl_001.png/revision/latest?cb=20111228194350
Real Name: Daryl Martha Dane
Current Alias: Doll Woman
Nicknames: “The Living Doll”
STATUS:
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: Chemist, University Professor, Crime-fighter
Identity: Secret
Alignment: Good
Base of Operations: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a Manhattan loft she inherited from her parents.
CHARACTERISTICS:
Gender: Female
Height: 5′ 8
Weight: 125 lbs.
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
HISTORY:
Doctor Daryl Dane, following in the footsteps of her late paternal grandfather, the biochemist Darrell Dane (who she was also named after) earned a doctorate in chemical physics at Harvard. Her father had also been an accomplished chemist, her mother a physicist – so Daryl simply felt she was following in the family tradition
After her graduation, Harvard employed Daryl as a professor. Her research was widely published and praised as ahead of its time.
During her first year of teaching at Harvard, tragedy struck – her parents were gunned down by unknown assailants, who the police believed to have some sort of connection to the mob. Daryl, an only child, who was very close to her parents, was both devastated and bewildered by this strange turn of events. Stranger still, during the reading of her parents will, she learned that she had inherited the key to a mysterious safety deposit box which she had never heard about previously.
In the box, Daryl discovered several strange items, including a red and blue costume that seemed the appropriate size for a doll, and a letter from her father. In that letter, her father outlined the secret history of Daryl’s grandparents, Darrell and Martha: they were, in fact, the famous “Golden Age” crime-fighters known as Doll Man and Doll Girl! The letter outlined how Daryl’s grandfather had invented the formula to allow him to shrink his size down to six inches while retaining the full strength of his normal size, and how his then-fiancée Martha Roberts (later his wife) went on to develop the same abilities a few years later, seemingly from the power of wishful thinking alone, and joined his crime-fighting efforts as “Midge, the Doll Girl.” However, the letter revealed that Martha actually developed the abilities after accidentally digesting a new version of the formula which the elder Dane had been attempting to synthesize, but she didn’t realize this until many years later.
The elder Dane was attempting to correct an impurity in the formula, but failed. The impurity would eventually lead to the illnesses which would cost the lives of both Dane and his wife, Martha. The letter went on to detail how Daryl’s own father had tried for years to correct the impurity in the formula, but ultimately failed – the letter explained that he had kept the formula and family history from her because he felt it too dangerous for her to know – but, he had left the information (and the formula) for her, as he felt she was the only one with the skills to continue his work and find a “fix” for the formula.
Daryl soon learned from police investigators that her parents had been gunned down by men associated with Falco Corleone III, the grandson of a man who once attempted to blackmail Daryl’s grandmother. Police said one of the gangsters told them that Corleone had hired them to retrieve some sort of “formula” that her father had been working on, as Corleone felt it could be worth a great deal of money on the black market. Corleone himself had gone into hiding, however, and could not be located.
Daryl quickly went to work on correcting her grandfather’s formula, and soon hit on something that both her grandfather and father had missed. Correcting the impurity, Daryl used the formula to give herself similar powers to those her grandparents once possessed, but with slightly more control. Donning a slightly modified version of her grandfather’s old costume, Daryl vowed to bring her Corleone and his ilk to justice, and to carry on the legacy of her grandparents, fighting crime as the amazing Doll Woman!
POWERS: Daryl is able to shrink her size while still retaining the full strength of her normal size. However, unlike her grandparent’s, she is able to “stop” shrinking at a number of smaller sizes, beginning at a ratio of 1:4 (18”) and deceasing from there, with the smallest possible size being 6” (the same as her grandfather). When Daryl corrected the impurity in the formula, it changed how the formula interacted with her biochemistry and once she shrinks down to one of her specific sizes, she’s unable to alter it or to grow back to normal size for a time period of one hour.
EQUPIMENT/PARAPHERNALIA: Daryl utilizes modified versions of her grandfather’s old gadgets, including the “Doll Plane.” Like him, she also has a trained dog, “Elmo the Wonder Dog” named after her grandfather’s Great Dane. However, Daryl’s “Elmo” is a rescue dog, and is a Labrador Retriever.
CONTEST ENTRY 2: REX DEXTER OF MARS
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f379/mharrison67/markh_rexdexter.jpg
1939 edition:
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/pdsh/images/7/7a/Rexdexter.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090929024604
Real Name: Rex Dexter
Current Alias: “Man of Mars”
Nicknames: “The First Martian”
STATUS:
Citizenship: United Allies of Earth
Occupation: M.A.R.S. Star Commander
Identity: Public
Alignment: Good
Base of Operations: Earth, Mars, Outer Space
CHARACTERISTICS:
Gender: Male
Height: 5′ 11
Weight: 200 lbs.
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
HISTORY: In the year 2063, mankind has developed advanced space travel and successfully colonized the moon and the planet Mars. Rex Dexter, son of original Mars settlers, becomes the first human to be naturally born on Mars and achieves fame as “The First Martian.”
A more advanced and enlightened civilization is now curious about what lies beyond its own solar system and recently-developed warp drive technology has made space exploration possible in a way never dreamt of before. The United Allies of Earth forms a new organization to take the place of NASA – M.A.R.S. (Major Analysis and Research of Space).
By the time Rex Dexter becomes an adult, the M.A.R.S. program is ready to launch its first inter-stellar spacecraft, “The Explorer.” Rex, by this time obsessed with space exploration, applies to the M.A.R.S. program and excels, soon rising to the rank of Star Commander.
Together with his crew, he explores exotic new worlds, searches for unknown worlds and civilizations, bravely going where no Martian has ever gone before!
huuummm this week and last my post here are not showing up
OK guy.s…it’s a design contest…not an essay writing contest. Keep your posts short and sweet. Brief description – couple of sentences tops and the link to pic.
@Vengeance…not sire what to tell you man.
IRON SKULL
Mine – http://www.heromachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ams-IRON-SKULL-sept-2016.png
original – http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Iron_Skull
sucks i can not take part here
Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that! keep etting this err msg when I try to repost
Are you trying to post a link to the picture, or the picture itself? Because technically if you can post this message, you should be able to copy and paste a link to the picture within it.
After Dialysis I have slept most of the day
barely making the deadline for these two
Sub-Mariner
Original:
http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Sub-Mariner
Entry #
http://i795.photobucket.com/albums/yy240/Cliff_HM3/Cliff_NanaNanaNanaNOTBatman_Namor_zpsiyvvkybn.jpg
OK really odd
I went to get Black Condor’s original info to post.
He’s not listed there now. I did a search on him, and it says he was 1940.
I KNOW I saw him on the 1939 Public Domain page, how else would I have seen him to do him.
Oh well. I’ll post him on Cliff’s Eclectic Mayhem in Forumns.
Contest closed. Results posted shortly.
Pity… I liked “Doll Woman” specifically BECAUSE it had a decent story included…
Also thought it was a more detailed picture. Stardust was good, just thought Doll Woman showed more effort…