Comments on: Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #4!

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:32:14 +0000

so who's the guy in the spidey suit then?

I believe it was the same fellow who did all of their Spider-Man modeling at the time. I don't recall his name.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:06:16 +0000

so who's the guy in the spidey suit then?

By: Roderick T. Long

Roderick T. Long — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:41:44 +0000

Does Nick Cage have a brother named Luke Fury?

By: Torsten Adair

Torsten Adair — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:53:09 +0000

DC Comics acquired ownership of Captain Atom in 1983, so your theory that the licensor was displeased is false.
Pre-Crisis, DC had published a mystery mini-series, which supposedly was solved before the final issue.
And... if you look on Usenet, you can also find the discussion threads for Watchmen, a murder mystery based on Charlton characters.

By: Matt Hawes

Matt Hawes — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:16:49 +0000

Bill Bickel, above, makes a good point about Nic Cage naming his son Kal-El, but I still wonder why Cage has changed his story about where his stage name came from (I noticed he changed his stories in interviews, as well).

By: Ivan Linares

Ivan Linares — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:16:55 +0000

Hello... First and foremost, Iwould like to apologize for any English mistake I might have commited. I am Brazilian, and English is not my mother language... I have heard that the original story for "Armageddon 2001" (the one where the villain was Capitain Atom) was published somewhere. In which issue it was published? Is it easy to get? Thank you for the attention! My e-mail is ivan.linares#planet-save.com (replace the "#" with an "@").

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:03:35 +0000

Regarding "A:2001", I was working in a comic shop at the time, and remember specifically seeing solicitation materials which stated that "...Monarch is revealed to be a member of Justice League Europe". This confirmed my initial suspicion that Captain Atom was destined to be Monarch. My initial suspicion was as a result of learning about 1) the ending of the Captain Atom comic, and 2) that the JLE annual was to be the final annual before the release of issue #2 of "A:2001". I mentioned this to a friend who was an early aficionado of Usenet, and he confirmed that the identity of Monarch had been leaked.

By: Alex Rogers

Alex Rogers — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 03:55:38 +0000

I got my last name from Steve Rogers- Captain America himself.

Or my parents, whose last name is Rogers. Take your pick.

By: Paul1963

Paul1963 — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:10:34 +0000

Even without the Internet being as omnipresent as it is today, I would imagine that various DC editorial and creative people knew the jig was up when they went to the summer cons in 1991 and kept hearing things like, "Well, Monarch is OBVIOUSLY Captain Atom" from fans. I know I called it fairly early on and said so in mid-July of '91 to a friend who was then on staff at DC. Time-traveler, glowing red eyes, energy-blast powers--hmm, sounds like Captain Atom, whose book tied up all its plotlines with #50 and now feels like it's about to be cancelled.

By: Bill Bickel

Bill Bickel — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:38:03 +0000

I'd be more inclined to believe Nicolas Cage changed his story because "he wanted a more â€œsophisticatedâ€ inspiration behind his name when he became an Oscar-winning actor" if he didn't then go and name his child Kal-El.

By: yo go re

yo go re — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:44:07 +0000

Neat! Thanks, Sten; my brain just got a new wrinkle!

By: Sten Drescher

Sten Drescher — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:17:41 +0000

The internet existed in 1991, although it was largely limited to the military, universities, and high tech companies. Word of Captain Atom-as-Monarch spread through the rec.arts.comics Usenet newsgroup. Those who read the newsgroup took the word to their local comic shops, where it spread locally. If you go to groups.google.com, you can search for "Captain Atom Monarch", and read the 1991 messages ('Scowling' Jim Cowling was perhaps the most emphatic that DC had let out confirmation).

By: yo go re

yo go re — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:38:07 +0000

You know what I've always wondered about the Captain Atom thing? How did the story leak? And more importantly, in those pre-internet days, how did it leak and spread soon enough for DC to 1)hear about it and 2)do anything about it? So, what, some guy overhears it at a convention or something, and he tells the people at his comic shop. So that's four nerds who know the secret - is that worth changing your original outcome?