What are some once popular heroes / villains that have been more or less forgotten today?

Imagine trying to get the character in vogue today

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what're some you recommend? Thought I'd like the spirit crossover, but it was meh to me.

Not sure about popularity but I enjoyed some weird shit back in the day

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And Papua New Guinea too.

I think Golden Age superheroes were perceived as childish and thus never replaced the pulp ones as they did in the States. The Phantom gave scandinavians the right kind of escapism, not from the sandbox but from the concrete prisons of school or work.

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Damn pirate clowns...

Gotta show them who's boss.

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Phantom 2040 was the original Batman Beyond.

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The Shadow did have a movie, one of the Baldwins was in it iirc

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kino. they should bring him back

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Green Hornet was a radio hero first, then later his best-known incarnation was the 60's show, primarily because Bruce Lee was Kato on that show.

Lone Ranger is also another popular hero that's kind of lesser-known today, even though there's still elements of the character that people are vaguely aware of.

Doc Savage, arguably more lesser-known today. His pulps sold well during the 30's, he got boosted by a revival when the books were reprinted in the 60's to the 90's, but was barely used for anything other that comics from Dark Horse, DC, and Dynamite after the pulp reprints stopped. I think only in the last few years did they start doing new text stories.

Ghost Rider used to be popular.

Anyone from the West and horror comics published by Marvel and DC.

Not to mention Quailman, Superdude, and Major Glory

I have to bump this with my dick.

>Green Hornet was a radio hero first, then later his best-known incarnation was the 60's show, primarily because Bruce Lee was Kato on that show.
i did not know that
very interesting thank you user

Lone Ranger was also a radio show first, out of that famous western city, Detroit. Tonto’s “Indian” phrases are botchy Ojibwa.

Who knows about Flash Gordon these days? Or any pre-Peanuts comic strips? Mutt and Jeff, Barney Google, Terry and the Pirates, anything like those.

Flash Gordon would be 2/3 GORDON'S ALIVE!!!?!11one!!! and 1/3 Queen's kickass opening theme, both from the 1980 movie.

well, to be fair it was only a sole movie, all further attempts to make it a franchise failed or were pretty bad (failed pilot tv show, direct to video sequels, Marvel comic book series, lame videogame)

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>Lone Ranger

I remember reading about the Lone Ranger was based on Bass Reeves, the first black lawman west of the Mississipp and many of the Lone Ranger's stories were based Reeves exploits.

Darkman only exists because no one would give the guy any rights to any character.

>NOW Comics' The Green Hornet Volume 1
Takes the radio (1930s) and TV (1960s) versions of the Hornet and tries to make them one connected universe/family tree. Got a shit ton of spin offs, but the first 14 issues that made up Volume 1 were probably the best.
>Matt Wagner's The Green Hornet: Year One
An origin of the 1930s "Golden Age" Green Hornet. The best of Dynamite's Hornet books. Got a pretty good sequel in "Kato: Origins".
>Kevin Smith's Green Hornet #1-10
An adaptation of Smith's "lost" script for a Hornet film when Disney had the rights in the early 2000s. It's pretty ok (not as good as the aforementioned "Year One" IMO). If you don't like Kevin Smith, it's not as "Kevin Smithy" as you think it would be. It's like if you took the seriousness of 70s Batman comics with little hints of 60s TV Batman campyness lightly sprinkled in. After the first ten issues adapting the script, it went on for another 30 something with new storylines.

This faggot

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I meant recently in the big boom of superheroes.

What do you suppose the little guy in the foreground is looking at?

Flash Gordon is mainly known by people for the 80s film.

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Probably a hot dame.

Fuckin' clowns!

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Fantomen up in this bitch.

>Or any pre-Peanuts comic strips? Mutt and Jeff, Barney Google, Terry and the Pirates, anything like those.

The only thing pre-Peanuts I can think of people being familiar with is Popeye, but that's mainly known because of the cartoons. Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, The Phantom, Mandrake are all still running, but you'd have to be reading the paper or following the comic strip online to know about them, and that's tough in this day and age.

>Dick Tracy, Gasoline Alley, The Phantom, Mandrake are all still running,
Mandrake has been in reruns since Fredericks' death. btw

Fun fact: in China and other Asian markets the 60s Green Hornet show was cut and edited and had a few extra scenes shot and was transformed into "The Kato Show" showing Bruce Lee's Kato as a hyper competent martial arts hero having to always save the bumbling and kind of stupid Green Hornet. This jump started Bruce Lees career and made him super famous but also caused alot of confusion when people who had only ever seen the Kato Show learned that Kato was just a servant and sidekick. Some aspects of that interpretation made it into the Seth Rogen Green Hornet.