It's hard to say whether that's happened yet. I don't know who makes that call.

I used to get into "disagreements" with many people because they never seemed to have HEARD of a "van dyke" and called everything that wasn't a full-on beard a goatee.

After many years of banging my head against a wall, I just figured it wasn't worth the hassle of trying to "educate" anyone in facial hair terminology (or "chin-spinach", as I like to call it).

MAD MONKEY & "a different DAN" are both correct however.

While the spelling of van dyke (or van dyck) has been altered over time, so has the actual accepted definition of what constitutes a van dyck or goatee.

Used to be, if the mustache didn't TOUCH the beard part, it was still a goatee (which was, traditionally, JUST the chin hair - like a GOAT, hence the name).

Now, it all makes no sense.

Do a quick search and no two sources agree.

Here's the wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatee

GAH!

OH!
And to "O" the Humanatee!"... you escaped certain doom on that one.

When I saw the "beard" subject, I had wondered if:

a) ANYONE would know of or use that definition

or

b) anyone would try to "out" Dr. Strange.

I was happy to see that- Yes, they did know of that definition, and that- No, Doc wasn't the target.

Also kudos to "The Kirbydotter".
Baron Mordo's beard IS evil.

~P~
P-TOR

And that’s one to grow on.

Sorry to have to correct a correction, but it's properly spelled "Van Dyck," after the painter Anthony Van Dyck.

Two to grow on...

"Liar! It's a magnificent beard and I know you want one."

Mike Grell's Warlord is also cool but it's just a white version of Green Arrow'S

Simonson drew a great beard on Thor and on Great Father (of the New Gods).

Baron Mordo's (on Doctor Strange) has the best evil beard!

So I'd include him.

Then also Hercules and Thor.

Then, hmm-maybe Ben Grimm's fake on when he impersonated Blackbeard.

There have been a few.

"The Unique Properties of Condo Arlik" from Secret Origins #47(February 1990) implied that Chemical King and Invisible Kid I were lovers. We never saw CK with a girl(we seldom saw him, period) and Invisible Kid's only romantic moment came in Superboy #203(August 1974), where he fell in love with a female ghost shortly before he died. Maybe he swung both ways.

Shrinking Violet and Light Lass were strongly hinted to be lovers in the "5 years later" continuity. Both were previously in heterosexual relationships(the former with Duplicate Boy, the latter with Timber Wolf), so I guess they were bisexual.

As for Element Lad and Shvaughn Erin, I figured that Element Lad truly loved Shvaughn and refused to leave her when he became a male. I guess that makes him bi as well.

Honorable mention goes to Substitute Heroes member Color Kid. "The Substitutes" episode of the LSH cartoon portrayed him as foppish. Then again, anybody who walks around with a rainbow on their costume...

And kudos to Sanctum Sanctorum for remembering the awesome Beard Hunter issue of DP. Too bad Morrison hasn't brought back the nefarious Bearded Gentlemen's Club Of Metropolis.