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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 23 January 2021 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Vigilante looks like a John Byrne design to me. I wonder if George Perez was consciously going for that look the way he did for Brother Blood?
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Scarlet Witch and Zatanna didn't really have much in common and debuted in the same year about eight months apart. Zatanna uses backwards magic and is the distaff version of her father, the Golden Age hero Zatara. Scarlet Witch is a mutant with no connection to magic until retcon a decade or so after her first appearance.
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Posted: 23 January 2021 at 6:56pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Vigilante, I think, is one those designs that looks cool but consists of not all that much. Reminds me of Snake Eye's from GI Joe: anyone can draw him.
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Posted: 24 January 2021 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
The Vigilante was one of the first direct-only titles I bought as a kid, and I was immediately drawn to the sleek costume. I don't feel he's a homage to any Marvel character, but he looks like one, and it cannot be a coincidence that the character was created for DC by two guys they poached from Marvel. 

(also: Vigilante was the first DC comic I actually wanted to buy, rather than I felt I had to buy because the local 7-11 rack ran out of any Marvels I didn't already have). 


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Vigilante always looked like he should be skiing. I prefer the cowboy.
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DC didn't homage Marvel characters so much as it turned existing characters into homages.

Black Adam has been remade into DC's Sub-Mariner.
Solomon Grundy is now DC's Hulk (even becoming intelligent about the same time the Hulk did).
The Giffen OMAC remake also was a Hulk type.
Of course, if we go back far enough, Batman's foe Blockbuster was a straight Hulk homage.
I seem to recall another Batman villain intended by former SPIDER-MAN writer Gerry Conway to be a bad version of Spider-Man--Black Spider.
Conway's Steel even became "Commander Steel" (and a relative became "Citizen Steel"), sounding more like Captain America than originally intended.
Some recent attempts to jazz up Hawkman seemed to try to "Wolverine-ize" him.
And then there are "THE TERRIFICS," a very obvious foursome (consisting of Mr. Terrific, Plastic Man, Metamorpho, and Phantom Girl) brought together to resemble the Fantastic Four--when Marvel had retired them.
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