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Matt Hawes
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Ok, adding some others I thought of to what you guys have listed so far, we have named the following red-heads in comics (heroes, villians, supporting characters):
Jimmy Olsen, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor, Archie Andrews, Pureheart the Powerful, Wally West, Matt Murdock (Daredevil), Arcade, Cain Marko, Wolfsbane, Banshee, "Dum Dum" Dugan, Hyperion, Son of Satan, Guardsman, Guy Gardner, Red Star, Rorschach, Speedy, Orion, Starfox, Lightning Lad, Sun Boy, Elongated Man, Crystal, the Silver-Age Hawkgirl, Leeja Clane, Red Norvell, Medusa, Rick Astley, Henry Gyrich. Red Ryan, Per Degaton, Plastique, Thundra, Thorn, Vic Sage the Question, Makkari, Ugly Superman, The fat Lt. Marvel, Flash Thompson, Mary Jane Watson, Jean Grey, Maddy Pryor, Rachel Summers, Firestar, Rusty from X-Factor, Patsy Walker, The Golden-Age Atom, Nuklon, D-Man, Firebrand, and Scrapper from the Newsboy Legion.
I'm sure there are some more we are leaving out.
The iffy ones: Zabu (do we count animals?), Sasquatch (in monster form).
Is Doc Savage really a red-head? I mostly see him colored with white hair.
That's Jimmy Olsen.
Edited by Matt Hawes on 10 March 2009 at 10:12am
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Martin Redmond
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- Shaft from Youngblood
- Spartan from WildCATS
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Paulo Pereira
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How about Jason Blood?
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Paul Anthony Llossas
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That's Jimmy Olsen.
I know, but the title thread states "Red Haired Male Superheroes", hence mentioning "Elastic Lad" (hero identity) not "Jimmy Olsen" ("Superman's Pal", i.e. sidekick).
Edited by Paul Anthony Llossas on 11 March 2009 at 6:29am
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Lance Hill
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Wasn't Wally's brown hair dye disguise part of his "new" yellow costume back when it first debuted?
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Richard Callaghan
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That's self-evident of what I'm talking about.. Superman turns ugly (was this a red Kryptonite thing?)... because he's a ginge.
I remember an issue of Superman where he turned bad and did things like block TV signals (anyone remember that? "Superman, you're such a heel!") and he taunted Lois by revealing his new "girlfriend"... an ugly, buck-toothed girl with red hair and freckles.
The suggestion of Flash Thompson is interesting though... I can't imagine a UK comic presenting a red-haired guy as the school's alpha male.
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Thomas Moudry
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QUOTE:
Actually, from what I have seen of reprints of young Mr. West's
first appearance and his early adventures, he did
have red hair. I don't exactly know when the brown hair started, but I do
remember Wally mentioning in a New Titans
issue that now that he was hanging out in NYC, he no longer had to use
hair dye to hide his secret identity of being the
only red-haired kid in Blue Valley, or some such thing. |
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I thought about this later and hadn't had a chance to post. Suddenly, I
remember Wally having red hair in his early appearances in The Flash and
early issues of Teen Titans. Somewhere in the first Teen Titans run, he
started appearing with brown hair--around issue 30 or 31, it would
seem.
Here's Teen Titans no. 28:
And here's no. 31:
Edited by Thomas Moudry on 12 March 2009 at 5:30am
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Paul Gibney
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Matt Hawes wrote:
| Is Doc Savage really a red-head? I mostly see him colored with white hair.[ |
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Yes. To quote Doc's description in the first book, "The bronze of the hair was a little darker than the bronze of the features." I can't think of bronze hair as being anything but a type of red hair, can you?
Doc as depicted in his original publication run.
Bama presented him differently, but his hair wasn't white, just lighter than his skin.
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Brian Hague
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Paul, the original poster himself cited Jimmy Olsen as an example of what he was looking for in this thread. I can't imagine he's therefore representative of something other than what's being requested.
On the other hand, if super-heroic incarnations of Superman's best pal are in fact considered different than Jimmy himself, suddenly this thread opens wide with new possibilities such as:
Mister Action
Flamebird
Superlad
Super-Jimmy
The Batman-Superman of Earth-X
Colossal Boy Jimmy Olsen
Aqua-Jimmy
I'm certain there must be others...
Edited by Brian Hague on 11 March 2009 at 9:28pm
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Brian Hague
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Richard Callaghan wrote: "That's self-evident of what I'm talking about.. Superman turns ugly (was this a red Kryptonite thing?)... because he's a ginge."
Actually, the Ugly Superman was a pro wrestler looking to make a name for himself as a celebrity parody. He briefly dated Lois Lane in issue 8 of her comic, proving himself an uncouth lout. In the end, he got plastic surgery and tried to make a go of a career as the Gorgeous Superman.
The story is reprinted in the Superman in the Fifties tpb, where the editors must have shared your opinion about the portrayal of redheads. In the reprint, his hair is brown.
Red K did once turn Superman into the "Goofy Superman," whose appearance was that of Mad Magazine's red-haired Alfred E. Neuman. Just to bring everything back around again, Neuman's also the model for Dave Gibbons' Rorschach.
Edited by Brian Hague on 11 March 2009 at 9:40pm
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Matt Hawes
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Paul wrote:
| ...Bama presented him differently, but his hair wasn't white, just lighter than his skin... |
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That's what was throwing me off. I am not real familiar with Doc Savage, obviously.
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Ray Brady
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Let us all bow our heads in shame and self-loathing for forgetting the
greatest red-haired superhero in comics history.
Danny Chase, can you ever forgive us?
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