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Jim Petersman
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Posted: 10 November 2026 at 12:53am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
I was looking at Reddit recently and saw this character mentioned:


Which makes me wonder, how do ideas this bad actually make it to print?

Edit - seems I've lost the ability to post images. It's a pic of Combo Man, FWIW.


Edited by Jim Petersman on 10 November 2026 at 12:56am
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John Byrne
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Posted: 10 November 2026 at 1:38am | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Every bad idea is someone’s good idea. And vice versa.
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David Miller
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Posted: 10 November 2026 at 5:02am | IP Logged | 3 post reply
How is it a bad idea?
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Phil Southern
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Posted: 11 November 2026 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Combo Man was an advertisement for "Combos ®  Baked Snacks", so that was probably the reason you'd never heard of him.     

I couldn't get an image to post either. 


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Joel Tesch
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Mike Benson
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Posted: 13 November 2026 at 3:23am | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Saying this was “published” doesn’t seem accurate. It’s a promotional bit that you wouldn’t expect to have much artistic value. 
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Trevor Smith
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Posted: 13 November 2026 at 11:29am | IP Logged | 7 post reply
Fun exercise though - who do we have there?

-Hulk
-Cyclops
-Iron Man
-Magneto
-Punisher
-Captain America
-Wolverine
-Deadpool, maybe? (forearms)
-? (waist)
-Spider-Man
-JB's FF uniform
-? (the band under what I think is JB's FF)
-Human Torch
-Silver Surfer
-? (the feet boots look familiar enough that I know I'll
be pissed when someone else gets it)
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Mike Benson
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Posted: 13 November 2026 at 12:03pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
That black and red forearm looks like Daredevil. At the time I believe he was wearing some ridiculously bad armor. Now that is a question I can get behind. Daredevil, a character that relies on acrobatics and stealth, in armor. How the hell did THAT get published?
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