World’s finest supervillain. Brainiac 5’s greatest shame. An explorer who goes ape. Living wi-fi. The Guardians’ cousins. Which are hot, which are not? The Girls of the Hot Squad continue their evaluation of Who’s Who #5’s entries based on sheer datability.
Featuring permanent panelists Isabel, Josée, Nathalie, and Amelie.
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Relevant images and further credits at: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not ep.28 Supplemental
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Composite Superman was my favorite of this bunch as a kid. The costume was ridiculous but is why I picked up the issue (the one where he changed his name to Amalgamax, which was even more ridiculous). I hadn’t read anything from the Legion by then but was intrigued!
Also, good synergy with Congorilla and the interview with Chuck Patton which came out a few days earlier.
I’m a big Martian Manhunter fan , I’ve got a big chunk of his run in Detective comics, all of his House of Mystery run & his 2 Brave & the Bold issues. In issue 56 he & Flash fight an (get ready for this) alien mutant android that copies their powers & the look is half M.M. & Flash . This book came out the same year as Composite Superman 1964. Was DC ripping itself off?
I have a soft spot for Composite Superman, having read his first apperance in a World’s Finest reprint digest. As a young kid, I could never understand the green skin, but I didn’t know the Legion very well then. Speaking of green skin, it’s definitely a thing. Is it wrong that I find the already attractive Zoe Saldana MORE attractive as Gamora? Same for Susan Oliver as the green Orion slave girl in Star Trek’s “The Cage”.
When I got this issue, I assumed Computo had possessed a young adult male. Giffen, like many comic artists, wasn’t the best at displaying youth in his characters. Computo is goofy looking in an old-fashioned robot way. Which makes it all the more horrific when you see him murdering one of Triplicate Girl’s forms!
Congo Bill is definitely rocking an older Clark Gable look here. When I first saw the gorilla-inhabited body of Congo Bill hanging from a cage and scratching under his arms, it was quite a shock!
The Construct definitely gives me Cybermen from Doctor Who vibes.
Never thought of a samurai-influence on The Controllers, but they do dress quite a bit like Walt Simonson’s Manhunter (can’t wait to see what the Girls think of that design).
Impressive podcast most impressive composite Super Man …. This is what happens when someone takes to much LSD and creates. Just no. Next.
computo. Elon Musks wet dream. He does look like a mantis . The robot Elon looks like L- Roy from the Jetsons next,
Wow Shagg and Rob just did a Chuck Patton the artist who drew the entry. The drawing is cool. I only know the character from when he was on the JLA . He looks cool. Next
Construct. Yeaaah and yet people are still doing the AI thing. When sky net takes over no one can say they weren’t warned by the media lol next.
Controllers the 70s just threw up on this man. And those of his species.
Can’t wait for the episode.
I have never quite understood the Composite Superman. If he never showed up again, I would be fine.
The Computo story that is the one that gets me. It was unbelieveably evil and killed a friend. Now it is the majordomo? Imagine if a robot killed (rolls Hot Squad randomizer) … Nat. Would you guys be fine if the robot was ‘rehabilitated’ and became your butler? Or would you always say ‘that thing killed Nat?’
As always, a fun listen! Thank you all!
I *think* (not sure) my first exposure to Composite Superman was in World’s Finest 283-284 in 1982, unless he showed up in a Superman Digest that I’m forgetting about. If he got powers from the Legion, I wonder why he didn’t look like a composite of various Legion members. Superman and Batman are more commercial; I guess
Anyway, I was interested that one of the ladies admitted liking green skin. My favorite green-skinned lady was, of course, Yvonne “Batgirl” Craig as Marta on the Star Trek episode Whom Gods Destroy, or as I like to refer to it, “That time Batgirl cosplayed as She-Hulk.” For me, Yvonne was at her most beautiful/sexiest when she was Batgirl. As someone who loved comics for pure escapism as a young man, the ladies with exotically colored skin that doesn’t exist in reality were appealing because it added to the fantasy aspect. Hey, young me liked some blue-skinned (Shadow Lass, Charlton’s Winnie the Witch) Orange-skinned (Teen Titan’s Starfire) and green skinned (Jarella, She-Hulk) ladies. However, my main crushes still had normal colored skin: Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy, Zatanna, Catwoman, Storm.