For CBG's special Parents' Guide to Comics issue, Mr. SIlver Age saluted the children in one of the biggest families in SA comics: The Jordans Brothers!
-- MSA
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For CBG's special Parents' Guide to Comics issue, Mr. SIlver Age saluted the children in one of the biggest families in SA comics: The Jordans Brothers!
-- MSA
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What ever really became of Airwave, anyway? Was he a part of the Post-Crisis DCU?
And I suppose it's WAY to early to know whether he's part of the New 52...
At one point, the younger Hal grew up and had his powers increased and was re-named Maser. He was affliated with a group called the Captains of Industry then he was a reserve member of the JSA and may have been dead at one point. He was never a major character.
Thanks for the article, MSA! I was always curious about the Jordan Brothers. That Sue! I wonder if she went to the same journalism school as Lois Lane!
Also mentioned was Batman's Haney-fueled, temporarily-in-existence brain-damaged brother, which has some bits about a couple of guys Superman thought were his brothers!
Mr. Age,
You kind of left out a big chunk of DC's Silver Age by not mentioning the Legion of Super-Heroes, which had lots of siblings, the best known of course being Lightning Lad and Light Lass and their evil brother Lightning Lord, but I believe many of the other Legionnaires also had sibs. Ferro Lad, of course, had a twin brother. Dream Girl had a sister, the White Witch. There were the Tornado Twins, descendants of Barry and Iris Allen. And probably a whole bunch more that somebody with access to a good Legion index could look up.
Okay, I remember a character called Maser showing up in the later issues of Ostrander and Mandrake's Firestorm. Didn't realize he was Airwave. Interesting. Thanks for the info.
Philip Portelli said:
then he was a reserve member of the JSA and may have been dead at one point.
You just have to love comics, don't you?
You kind of left out a big chunk of DC's Silver Age by not mentioning the Legion of Super-Heroes, which had lots of siblings,
Well, I left out ONE chunk. I didn't think the sidebar was gonna make it unless I kept it short. So I went with only the JLA members. I should've said "JLA members" not "DC super-heroes," but I forgot to go back and change it after I decided on that and dropped out Hawk & Dove.
The Legion was a wealth of siblings, because they made great sudden plot points that could come out of nowhere and then disappear just as fast. The problem with listing them from an index (a problem I have with my trivia quiz) is that they may have picked up a brother or sister in the 1980s or 1990s that was part of some version of the Legion or another but wasn't part of the "real" Legion (ie, the Earth-1 Legion).
But if someone can list them, this would be the place!
So beyond the Legion, did anyone else have sibs that we didn't mention? I don't think Anthro's brother Lart counts, but Red Ryan's brother Tino Manarry would. Blackhawk also had a brother, Jack, who became Black Mask. Siblings never seem to be a good thing.
-- MSA
Dave Blanchard said:
Well, I did need to reference the source material for my citations, but otherwise, it's all memory, so I probably missed a one or two, but there were a few more . . . .
Cosmic Boy had a kid brother, Pol Krinn, who appeared in a couple of Legion tales in Adventure Comics , starting with issue # 335 (Aug., 1965).
Shadow Lass also had a younger brother, Grav Mallor, a.k.a. Shadow Kid. He appeared in Adventure Comics # 344-5 (May and Jun., 1966) and was backfitted as Shadow Lass's brother after she was introduced.
Stone Boy, of the Legion of Substitute Heroes, had a younger brother and sister, both unnamed, as seen in his first appearance, in Adventure Comics # 306 (Mar., 1963).
This one goes a bit past the Silver Age, but Matter-Eater Lad was shown to have a younger brother, Renkil Kem, in Superboy # 184 (Apr., 1972).
But the winner of the Legion-sibling derby is easily Legion Reservist Lana Lang, who had no less than three brothers:
Larry Lang, appearing in Superboy # 13 (Mar., 1951)
Ronald Lang, appearing in Adventure Comics # 168 (Sep., 1951)
Alvin Lang, appearing in Superboy # 48 (Apr., 1956)
Now, granted two of those fellows appeared before the Silver Age, but since, by Superman's established Silver-Age history, all Superboy stories had to take place on Earth-One, I added Larry and Ronald to the count.
Mr. Silver Age said:
Well, let's see . . . .
Two of DC's adventure teams contained sibling-couples. Rip Hunter's crew had sister-and-kid-brother duo Bonnie and Corky Baxter. Ditto for Judy and Nicky Walton of the Sea Devils.
Aquaman's wife, Mera, had a twin sister, Hila, as seen in Aquaman # 22 (Jul.-Aug., 1965).
Sergeant Rock had a brother in the Marine Corps---Lieutenant Larry Rock, "the Fighting Devil-Dog", who had a short-lived series in Our Fighting Forces # 95-8 (Oct., 1965 through Jan., 1966).
Robotman, of the Doom Patrol, had a younger brother, Randy Steele, who appeared in Doom Patrol # 103 (May, 1966).
Deadman---Boston Brand---had a twin brother, Cleveland, who first appeared in Strange Adventures # 211 (Apr., 1968). (Their parents must have used Rand-McNally as a source for baby names!)
And, of course, the Hawk and the Dove were brothers Hank and Don Hall.
I knew you'd be able to come up with some, Commander! Truthfully, I could've thought about it all day and never come up with some of those, like Randy Steele. I probably would've remembered Cleveland if I'd really started straying far afield.
Rip Hunter's crew had sister-and-kid-brother duo Bonnie and Corky Baxter. Ditto for Judy and Nicky Walton of the Sea Devils.
I hadn't even thought of them. I don't know as they count toward our super-hero siblings total, though. I'm surprised none of Cave Carson's crew was related that way, I thought it was a SA law.
Aquaman's wife, Mera, had a twin sister, Hila, as seen in Aquaman # 22 (Jul.-Aug., 1965).
Oh man, how could I have forgotten about Hila! Granted, Mera isn't really a "super-hero" as in a member of the JLA or anything, but still, a chance to mention Hila should not pass. Just imagine those guys upset to find Mera was married and asking, "Hey babe you got any sisters?"
And, of course, the Hawk and the Dove were brothers Hank and Don Hall.
Of course! I mentioned them above.
I actually think the DC crew had more sibs than the Marvel side. There weren't many loose ends over there that I remember. Tony Stark had a cousin, but otherwise, if we knew about them, they tended to be super-heroes (Sue Storm, Scott Summers, Matt Murdock)
-- MSA
Adding to Dave and the Commander's Legion siblings:
Yes he did and he later joined the Legion in late 80s as Magnetic Kid but tragically he was killed off right before the Five-Years-Later storyline.
Phantom Girl had an older brother Gyma seen in Superboy & The Legion #215.
Were Shadow Lad/Kid and Shadow Lass brother & sister or cousins? I've read it both ways.
Lana had THREE brothers!! I did not know that. At all. Wow.
Other sibs include:
As for Marvel,
There's probably more but I'm tired now! :-)
Mandrake the Magician had a criminal twin brother, Derek, who studied with him at the College of Magic in Tibet, and an explorer sister, Lenore. Derek was introduced in a story from 1948-49. Lee Falk did a redo of elements of the story in 1980 that changed the outcome of his conflict with Mandrake. (Spoiler Warning. In the original version Derek reformed, but in the redo he didn't.)
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