all my stories are love letters to the Silver age/Bronze age of comics that I grew up with. Back when continuity mattered, characters developed, and everything was being CONstructed, not Deconstructed. I’m using the Marvel Sandbox World and continuity as it existed during SECRET WARS II and ignoring all the stuff from the Mutant Massacre on up. Thanks to the Marvel Appendix crew for helping me remember obscure details from the Marvel Universe as it was from Stan Lee up to the day Jim Shooter was pushed out the door.

Thanks also to THE FANTASTIC FOUR AS THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL for many inspirations.

I update chapters fast as I can. Now that I finished the "prequal/back story" for WHO IS CAPTAIN HERO? I will be rewriting the 4 issues of POWERMAN AND IRON FIST from the point of view of Bobby "Captain Hero" Wright, who had been a minor Marvel character from the 1980s I was always fond of. If I still have regular readers, I'll do original stories to go with the prequal and 4 "day in the spotlight" stories. I have tons of ideas so subscribe or PM me to make me want to keep writing :)

I'm working on one story, bringing back a very minor character from POWER MAN/IRON FIST in the 1980s, that I could have made into a huge hit if I'd been a writer working for Jim Shooter in the Bronze Age of Comics, instead of a high school kid. I'm also resurrecting and modernizing a few of the Golden Age characters no one uses any more from Timely Comics, and some other stuff buried in the Appendix to Marvel Comics website that people should be reading about in reprint trade paperbacks. (Hey Disney, keep going with the Essential Collections, and keep the Silver and Bronze age alive!)

Right now I'm rewriting the original appearances of Bobby "Captain Hero" Wright" from his point of view, doing the "prequel" to the original story and laying groundwork for how I will CHANGE the original ending. The original ending was a rush job forced by the cancelling of the series, so I don't think it should count. It was just a 1 issue wrap up to pretend it had a final issue.

If I was doing a quick pitch, I'd say "Imagine a Marvel version of Captain Marvel, and an updated Golden Age boy inventor/detective trying to find a way to keep the world a little less dark, a little less edgy, more hopeful and less "grimdark."

If you're STILL here, I hope you like what I'm working on as fast as real life lets me.

Down the road I plan on rescuing a lot of discarded characters with potential from the scrapheap. And by subtracting the "dork age of comics" elements, it can be Marvel comics with out the parts that suck. There WAS a Daredevil before Frank Miller's pale copycats made the book a crappy depressing read.

the obscure Marvel heroes I've decided to rescue from the trash heap are...

Terry was a 1940s comic book hero of the classic "kid genius/detective" type, one of dozens of characters inspired by Tom Swift. The Golden ge had a ton of these, but you don't see them much any more, even though child prodigies are a LOT more common than people with actual superpowers. I figured he deserves an update and to be brought into the modern era, the way DC does all the time. (Mr. Terrific being a great example.)

Bobby Wright had 4 appearances in the 1980s, a classic kid hero with a superpowered alter ego, Captain Marvel being the most famous but there used to be a TON of these. Now, not so much for some reason. And if I keep at this past the expansion and adding back story to Captain Hero's few appearances, I'll be getting into how he learns to become the heroic ideal that the Marvel Universe hasn't had in ages, and how he gets there.

And as will be obvious later on, my favorite trope is red oni/blue oni.

I'm also a fan of kid heroes and I freaking HATE all the grim and gritty reboots that have made comics a chore to read since the 1990s.

And a plug for one of the BEST studies of what makes a great super hero story. Seriously, EVERY WRITER HERE should read this long essay on how a great story works.

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I'm doing two other stories, a mini-tribute to STEVE GERBER! the writer that influenced me most growing up. I consider it a crime that the HOWARD THE DUCK movie forever tainted his output for Marvel in the 1970s and 1980s. OMEGA THE UNKNOWN was brilliant, HOWARD THE DUCK was inspired, and even his runs on THE DEFENDERS and IRON MAN deserve a lot more respect than they get. I will work faster on them if more people READ them, hint hint.

for a sample if you don't know his stuff. I'm using just about every Steve Gerber plotline and character I can remember in one story, as a back story for Terry Vance and the time he was kidnapped by mad scientists at age 11. (I described the plot to a friend as "Imagine if 11 year old Harry Potter hadn't been collected by Hagrid to go to Hogwarts. Instead he'd been kidnapped by fans of of Grindlewald that decided he had potential with the "proper education" and shipped to Durmstrang. Actually that's not a bad idea either...)