#Bulletman

[puppetwoman17]

“Billy’s favorite hero is SUPERMAN!”

“Wrong! It’s Wonder Woman!”

“You’re both wrong! His favorite hero is John Constantine!”

All of you are wrong because his favorite heroes are the bullet couple. Him and Mary had action figures of those two, and when you have ACTION FIGURES, you know you’ve passed the point of no return.

Billy geeks out about these two, and then does the same with Windshear(the bullets’ daughter) when she shows up. Being friends with them is one of the coolest things to happen to him.

Also they care for them right back. I wish I got to see a few moments with the twins and Bulletgirl(she’s dead in PoS), but her daughter’s worry for them was also so sweet.

[wanderingmind867]

DC should have been forced to write about characters they bought, honestly. To my mind (which, albeit, isn't thinking too hard about it right now) that's the only thing that makes sense. You're going to buy Fawcett and Quality and Charlton? Fine, then you better use their characters! They should have been forced to keep writing Captain Marvel/Shazam, Bulletman, Ibis the Invincible, Plastic Man, Phantom Lady, Human Bomb, Judo Master, The Question, etc. These characters had potential, yet they mostly got relegated to the rank of C or D listers nowadays. Which really tells me DC isn't treating them well! If you don't want to use your characters DC, then you never should have bought them! I'm sure some indie publishers would be dying to do Ibis the Invincible or Bulletman or Spy-Smasher stories! I'm sure they would!

[cosmicmordecai]

That one time Billy Batson was written to date a woman whose the daughter of a superhero in his Captain Marvel form & said superhero dad (Bulletman) had him kidnapped as punishment but the narrative acted like he should be denounced for being overprotective?

All because she was a “babe” and he hit puberty so he couldn’t help himself. 🙄

[gijoe-forever]

[chernobog13]

The Bulletman, the Human Bullet action figure circa 1977. This is the British version of the G.I. Joe character, released two years after he originally appeared in the USA, and one year after Hasbro ended its original G.I. Joe line.

Palitoy was a British toy company (a subsidiary of General Mills) that licensed G.I. Joe from Hasbro for release in the United Kingdom. Palitoy rebranded the action figure line as Action Man, as G.I. Joe was a distinctly American term.

Palitoy's Action Man line for the most part originally just consisted of repackaged G.Joe figures and accessories. Around 1970 Palitoy began creating its own accessories with British themes, to distinguish Action Man from G.I. Joe.

Palitoy was the company that first introduced the flocked hair and rubber gripping hands to its Action Man figures. Hasbro liked these features so much that they added them to G.I. Joe as "life like" hair (it looked and felt like indoor/outdoor carpet) and "kung fu grip."

[cgbcomics]

[thebestcomicbookpanels]

Bulletman in the Case of the Christmas Crimes

[all-action-all-picture]

1976 ad for Hasbro's Bulletman, The Human Bullet (who also got a Palitoy release in the UK). Sounds as if they couldn't decide which of the two names to call him so they just called him both.

There was also a DC Comics Bulletman character. He looked similar to this but was unrelated.

Atomic Man also got a UK release around 1977, although they dropped the 'Mike Power' name.

The 'Eagle-Eyes' were invented by a Hasbro employee named James A. King.

[doctorslippery]

[billybatsonmylove]

he's on my hit-list

The Power of SHAZAM! Issue #34

[dcbinges]

The Power of Shazam! #8 (1995) by Jerry Ordway & Peter Krause

[puppetwoman17]

Someone absolutely NEEDS to write a fanfic of the Squadron of Justice(basically a bunch of Fawcett superheroes) meeting the JL and Cap being like: oh yeah, these guys all live and fight in the same city. I’ve known them all since I was a toddler. We do karaoke sometimes.

Idk why, but I feel like they’re the type of team to go out like almost every day and call it a team bonding exercise. They just have fun without holding back ya know?

For the lineup I’m thinking:

The Marvel Family, obvi

Bulletman & Bulletgirl

Spy Smasher

Golden Arrow

Ibis the Invincible & Taia

Minute Man

For fun, I think they’d know who the Marvel Family is and have a ball confusing the JL!

[isyurilowenthalthere]

Is he in Batman: The Brave and the Bold?

Is Yuri Lowenthal in…

Batman: The Brave and the Bold?

Yes!

He is the voice of two characters in S1 E22 “The Last Bat On Earth!”

In the episode’s teaser he voices The master of escape artists, Mister Miracle!

In the episode proper he is the voice of the Tiger Empire’s prince, Prince Tuftan!

He also voices another character in a later episode that (at the time of posting this) I have not yet watched (currently making my way through the show).

He is the voice of Bulletman in the episode “Joker: the Vile and the Villainous”

[superherobriefings]

Bulletman

pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Bulletman

Creator(s): Bill Parker, Jon Smalle

Alias(es): Jim Barr

1st Issue w/Uniform: Bulletman #5

Year/Month of Publication: 1942/05

[browsethestacks]

Xmas Comics (1941-1952)

[chernobog13]

Art by Kurt Schaffenberger who, after C.C. Beck, is the only artist I ever wanted drawing these characters.

The Squadron of Justice, the Earth-S superteam made up of the Fawcett Comics characters that DC first licensed, then acquired outright. Clockwise from top left: Mr. Scarlet and his sidekick Pinky; Spy Smasher; Ibis the Invincible and his wife, Taia; Bulletman and Bulletgirl; and the Marvel Family - Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel, and Captain Marvel Jr.

The team was introduced in Justice League of America (vol. 1) #135-137 (1976) during the annual Justice League-Justice Society crossover.

The only member missing is the god Mercury, who was responsible for putting the team together. However, Mercury was never a Fawcett hero, just someone who lent the Marvel family his powers. He was included in the story mainly to serve as Earth-S's analogue for the Flash.

Unfortunately, this was the first and only appearance of this team. DC never revisited the concept, and ten years later there was that whole Crisis On Infinite Earths thing which destroyed the multiverse (and DC is still, to this day, trying to undo the damage done by that event).

BTW, this was actually the second time the Squadron of Justice name had been used by Fawcett characters. Waaaaay back in Whiz Comics #21 (September, 1941) readers were introduced to Captain Marvel's Squadron of Justice.

Cover art by C.C. Beck.

This issue introduced the three different boys each named Billy Batson. When they said "Shazam!" together along with the original Billy they were transformed into the three Lieutenant Marvels. The four Marvels then joined forces to battle a team of villains that Dr. Sivana put together.

While the Lieutenant Marvels would appear several more times over the years, the Squadron of Justice name was never used again.