The Twelve - The Return Of The Golden Age Unknown Heroes

The Twelve - The Return Of The Golden Age Unknown Heroes

Wie wir auf der San Diego Comic Con erfahren haben, wird Marvel demnächst eine 12-teilige Maxi-Serie starten, die Helden präsentiert, die damals in der Pre-Marvel-Ära (als Marvel noch ATLAS hieß), aktiv waren!
Newsarama hat alle 12 Mitglieder zusammengefaßt und ein kurzes Profil erstellt, und wie Zeichner Chris Weston die Charactere sieht:

• The Black Widow
  
• The Blue Blade
  
• Captain Wonder
  
• Dynamic Man
  
• Elektro
  
• Fiery Mask
  
• The Laughing Mask
  
• Mastermind Excello
  
• Mr. E
  
• The Phantom Reporter
  
• Rockman
  
• The Witness
  
  

The Twelve - Black Widow

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Black Widow.—one of the first costumed superpowered heroines in comics, who debuted in August 1940's Mystic Comics #5. Although she shares a name with a modern Marvel character, they have no relation.

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CHRIS WESTON: The Black Widow is unashamedly modeled on Veronica Lake, the ultimate femme fatale. A proto-goth, she's mysterious, confident and alluring. I would. Would you?

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The Twelve - Blue Blade

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The Blue Blade. Dressed in the getup of a French musketeer, his brief career had him fighting Japanese spies on the Pacific coast.

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CHRIS WESTON: The Blue Blade is Errol Flynn turned up to eleven! Loud, obnoxious, vein and attention-seeking, he could be the breakout star of the series... if he survives. There was no avoiding the obvious camp elements to the original character so I decide to play them up and make him look even more outrageous. He's definitely wearing eye-liner, put it that way! I tried to make his body language equally as extrovert: this character will always indulge in sweeping gesticulations and never misses an opportunity to strike classic hero poses.

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The Twelve - Captain Wonder

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Captain Wonder. First appearing in Kid Komix #1 in the early 1940s, he came about his powers while working as a chemistry teacher who discovers a "wonder fluid".

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CHRIS WESTON: Captain Wonder is your bog-standard patriotic super-hero. He's basically a nice guy, easy-going and uncomplicated. And he's about to be put through the emotional wringer! Looking at his appearances in early Golden age comics, I was struck by his bare legs. How could anyone take on Hitler's hordes with bare legs and keep their dignity intact? I decided to give him hairy legs, something you don't usually see on a super-hero. But then, when would a stand-up guy like Captain Wonder find time out from fighting Nazis to shave and wax his legs, even if it did cross his mind?

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The Twelve - Dynamic Man

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CHRIS WESTON: I wanted Dynamic Man to look like "Station to Station"-era David Bowie, only with a big, muscular physique. I wanted to capture Bowie's weird, other-worldly looks... detached but confident. I stayed pretty faithful to his original appearances in Golden age comics, and tried to accentuate his Aryan features.

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The Twelve - Elektro

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CHRIS WESTON: Elektro remains extremely faithful to his original, "robotic-roman-centurion" look, but I took the trouble to model him in a 3D CGI package, purely to help me keep his design and proportions consistent from whatever angle I have to draw him from. He'll still be hand-drawn in the book, though, I hasten to add!

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The Twelve - Fiery Mask

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Fiery Mask. Created by Joe Simon back in 1940 for Daring Mystery Comics #1, Fiery Mask's origin involves zombies, 20' tall mad scientist and the Legion of Doom.

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CHRIS WESTON: Fiery Mask was a difficult one: no two pictures of him looked the same, so I decide to create a sort of amalgam of all his previous designs. I vaguely had the actor Sterling Hayden in mind, but I didn't seek out any photo reference to copy. I would say he was the "Green Lantern" of The Twelve and he can produce a kind of electro-plasmic flame at will. He also gets to tackle some Golden Age Marvel Zombies... I kid you not!

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The Twelve - Laughing Mask

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Laughing Mask. By day he was a young Assistant D.A., but by night he took the law into his own hands with a glowing mask and two .45s fighting crime on his own terms.

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CHRIS WESTON: Laughing Mask was great fun to design. Again, I stayed faithful to the original, but made his mask look more like an Ancient Greek theatrical mask. Beneath it, I made his own face quite ugly, giving him some kind of subconscious motive for wanting to keep it covered up.

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The Twelve - Mastermind Excello

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Mastermind Excello, whose name was taken up in modern times by Amadeus Cho who is a big part of the current World War Hulk story. No ties have been revealed between Cho and the original.

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CHRIS WESTON: Mastermind Excello was intended to look like some spooky, aristocratic, eastern-European Master of the Occult. Solemn and intense, but also a little theatrical, I could imagine him holding séances in some dusty old mansion with quivering old ladies. While he wasn't in my mind while I was drawing him, Bela Lugosi would probably play Excello to perfection.

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The Twelve - Mr. E

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CHRIS WESTON: Mr.E is a caped crime-fighter in the "Crimson Avenger", "The Shadow", and "The Spider" tradition. More of a "pulp fiction" character than a super-hero. I've often wondered why so few comic-strip characters have receding hairlines. Hair Loss is the last taboo in comics... it seems to be more acceptable to have GAY super-heroes than BALDING ones, nowadays. So here was an opportunity to break through the Slap-head Ceiling! I think it looks quite cool and adds to the "realistic" tone we want this series to have.

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