Posted: 18 January 2012 at 10:39am | IP Logged | 9
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The Aquarian was created by Steve Gerber, I believe, as a character in an early appearance of the Man-Thing. Back then he was Wundarr, a Superman parody whose father sent him to Earth in a rocket ship thinking the planet was about to explode. He was wrong, of course*, and the child spent most of his life in the rocket before it crashed in the Florida everglades. He was, therefore, mentally undeveloped. Mark Gruenwald, who apparently never met a DC analog he didn't like, sought to rehabilitate the character in Marvel Two-In-One and later, Quasar (where the whole "thinking the planet was about to explode" joke was paved over and a new rationale for the spaceflight was installed.) During the "Project Pegasus" saga, Wundarr was exposed to the Cosmic Cube and became something of a Christ-figure, dedicated to pacifism and the free-thinking ways of the "Age of Aquarius" culture. I have no idea where the character is today, and I shudder to imagine what today's creators would do with "super-hero hippie" to kick around in their violence-fest comics these days... *"Paging Jim Valentino... Jim Valentino, please... There is an origin waiting for you at the front desk..."
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