I mean… isn’t that obvious?

Though at taht point, I suppose you could make the same arguement about Blacks Panther and Manta. but not Black Lightning, who wore blue. Hmmm…

Yep. He first appeared in the original Teen Titans #18, in 1968. Wolfman and Perez brought him back in The New Teen Titans #18 (1982) and renamed him, since they’d already… appropriated the name Starfire.

Interestingly, the cover bills him as the “return of the original Starfire,” but IIRC they call him Red Star throughout the book.

Not only is almost every early Black character named “Black such and such,” (Black Panter, Black Lightning), you get your Black Adam, Black Bolt, Black Bison, and the completely inexplicable Black Canary.

Now I’m imagining Red Bull being hit by a teleporter accident and being split into Red Bull and Black Bull.

Speaking of Westerns, there was a Marvel Native American hero named Red Wolf. That’s almost as PC as an Asian hero named Yellow Fever, but those were different times.

And you can get pedantic and include folks like the Scarlet Skier or the Crimson Avenger, but that’s kinda cheating. If I were a superhero, I would like to be known as Red Bull. Full of energy.

So which color has the most heroes named after it? Black? Green? Gold?

He probably just stole one of Robin’s belts from the last Titans meeting. I would laugh very hard at a JLA story where one of the members was revealed to be a kleptomaniac, stealing various DC superhero gadgets and paraphernalia and causing them to be in danger when they go into battle.

Wonder Woman- “Crap! Where’d my bracelets go?” *Wonder Woman gets riddled with bullets.

“Speedy!”

I vaguely recall a DC villain by the same name. I think he fought the Outsiders.

Paladin’s been described as “The Purple Paladin,” for what that’s worth.

Orange is sorely lacking, though.

They are indeed calling him Arsenal in the #1 issue, but on the cover I’ve got, he’s got a big R on his belt buckle. So I’m willing to stick my cyber-neck out just a bit.

Red Star and (the various) Rocket Red(s) are, of course, both Russian/Soviet heroes, so the Red makes sense from an American perspective. I wonder (and pardon my ignorance here), could the Soviets have possibly referred to themselves as Reds? Or did we come up with that based on the red hammer and sickle on their flag?

btw, I believe Red Star used to be codenamed Starfire, and Marv Wolfman renamed him after introducing the voluptuous alien Starfire we all know and love.

The same applies, I think, to Orange and Purple. I don’t think they have any perjorative connotations, but they just don’t “zing!” when you say ‘em like one-syllable colors do. Can anyone think of any Purple _______ crimefighters?