Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #62

By: The Kirbydotter

The Kirbydotter — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:45:07 +0000

Another weird coincidence!
I just bought an almost complete run of Impact’s Black Hood (missing last issue #12 and the single Annual) really cheap. I bought it for the Burchett art. Not bad but not great either. Tim Sale started to draw in the last few issues but he was just starting at the time and wasn’t fully developped as an artist.

DC’s Impact had some cool and fun art in the first 6 issues or so of a few titles (Parobeck on the FLY, Burchett on the BLACK HOOD and I don’t remember his name but there was also a good one on JAGUAR).

I can only HIGHLY recommend to you readers of good taste to hunt down the usually very cheap and sadly short lived revival of Archie’s BLACK HOOD from the 80′s.
The 3 issues of BLACK HOOD (1983) was gorgeously illustrated by Alex Toth (who also drew the FOX back-up stories), Doug Wildey, Gray Morrow, Pat Boyette and underrated Al McWilliams. The set must also include BLUE RIBBON COMICS # 8 (1984) which also included a Neal Adams drawn Black Hood story and more art by McWilliams, Toth and Morrow.

By: Ken Raining

Ken Raining — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:13:29 +0000

Black Hood was soooooooo much better then the rest of the Impact line. I think it could have been a real sleeper hit were it on it’s own. Killing the main character, after such a buildup, and in such an ordinary (yet novel) way, was brilliant. Damn, I may just go homw and pull those all back out!

By: Annoyed Grunt

Annoyed Grunt — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:33:36 +0000

I remember being shocked when he died in the first issue of the Impact series. I didn’t know the character had any sort of history, I was just looking for some decent action being I was 10 at the time.

By: D.B.

D.B. — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:48:18 +0000

I only read one Black Hood comic when I was little, it was the ski mask and bike version. All I remember was his girlfriend being fatally shot in a robbery and he rode out and killed the guy who did it. Was probably the first anti-hero I ever saw in a comic.

By: dave

dave — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:58:54 +0000

“Hooded Justice was actually based on the Hangman. Black Hoodâ€™s Watchmen counterpart was actually the original Nite Owl.”

Thanks- that’s a pretty cool little fact. Shows how Moore monkeyed around with things so well- Nite Owl II was based on Blue Beetle, right? So to be true to the original character’s personality, he needed to be a character who was continuing someone else’s legacy- but the original Beetle had powers, so he couldn’t really have a counterpart in the story…

You know, I’ve often thought about how Moore’s career (and by extension, the comics industry post 85) might have been VERY different if DC had let him use the original characters for Watchmen.

Also, this adds to the coolness of the Black Hood for me, since Nite Owl I was my favourite character in Watchmen!

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:09:50 +0000

The Golden Age MLJ heroes were the basis for the Minutemen, the Golden Age superteam in Watchmen, but Hooded Justice was actually based on the Hangman. Black Hood’s Watchmen counterpart was actually the original Nite Owl.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 22:32:22 +0000

wasn’t the Black Hood also the inspiration for the character Hooded Justice in Watchmen?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 21:50:13 +0000

Let me tell you, the Golden Age Black Hood was just the bee’s knees. An original, minimalist idea…just fantastic. Especially compared to the mobs of Batman knockoffs that were the Black Hood’s peers. I’d revive him with that yellow jumpsuit and a yellow and black rocket-motorcycle. It’d be awesome!