Dial "H" for Hero

[iskander]

Fun idea for a book . I think DC should bring it back. This version is from the 80's reader could create heroes and mail them in ,winner appeared in the book. I can only imagine how many large breasted slutty costumes heroines sprang from the minds of 13 year-old boys...

Tags Group: Dial H for hero,Title: Adventure Comics, creator: Carmine Infantino




George Perez did alot of the covers.












I'm thinkin' maybe a design a "dail H for Hero" contest for Scans daily ?????? What do you folks think ???

Comments

[kingrockwell]

Heh, that Hunter gent looks like Prometheus.

[iskander]

Agreed.

[aaron_bourque]

That . . . actually, considering Prometheus' hook, tying it somehow to the H-Dial/V-Dial would be . . . interesting . . . veddy interesting.

[iskander]

Well the histories of the dial, everything from the Legion, house of Secrets,and the imagination of rick reed,anything is possoble at this point.

[nezchan]

I used to love Dial H, I had a complete set some time ago. Before I had to get rid of my collection, *sigh*. Great to see it again.

[iskander]

What do you mean "Had to" ?

[nezchan]

Circumstances. I needed money immediately, in any way I could get it. And selling my entire collection was one of those ways.

I miss those comics. Dial "H", a full run of Micronauts, the original Mage series by Matt Wagner (I couldn't get into the second series), New Teen Titans, all of the High Society and Church & state arcs of Cerebus (including a signed copy of everyone stuck in a closet), etc.

[iskander]

Micronauts, I feel for your loss....

[foxhack]

They did do a revival of this a few years back. I believe a lot of people didn't like it. I don't remember enough of it to say whether it was bad or not.

[iskander]

REALLY ? Don't recall it. Let me guess, they decided to make changes ???

[foxhack]

Nah, the basic story (person gets HERO dial thing, becomes hero) was there.

Unfortunately, things had a way of going awfully wrong. And I distinctly recall the thing being unreasonably... gory.

But there -was- a storyline to everything, and it all wrapped up in the final issue.

[thatnickguy]

H.E.R.O. I still own the first trade and am sad there was never any others.

I really liked it and I recall at the time that it was getting quite a few good reviews. Not 10/10 scores, but a respectable 7 or 8.

I liked the concept, too, where the dial kept jumping around to different people, so each story was how different people dealt with it. It was like a superhero version of 100 Bullets. Really great stuff, to be honest.

[crinos]

I actually have the issue of this series where they fight an outerspace squid man and a giant walking spatial anomoly like somebody made a giant cut out of the starry night sky at a planetarium and brought it to like.

It also had lizard men and gambling little people (saying little people because I don't wish to be yelled at by the Mods again).

[saralakali]

The first three scans (not counting the cover) were drawn by Don Heck if you wanted to add him to the tags.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Fun idea for a book . I think DC should bring it back.

At this point someone would probably accuse them of ripping off Ben 10.

[icon_uk]

I was just thinking that... :) Well, that and half a dozen other comics (Since, y'know, Warlock is obviously based on Upgrade :) )

[iskander]

I was saying that to someone the other day :)

[thandrak]

Well, I always considered Ben 10 to be the Animated version of Dial H.

[tahngarth.livejournal.com]

This was a legitimately fun series, but I fear reader-submitted superheroes wouldn't work today... Everyone would want to preserve their trademark for their webcomic (or somesuch) or just submit horribly ironic or dirty stuff.

It was a more innocent time.

"horribly ironic or dirty stuff"

[iskander]

I am sure there was plenty of that back in the day. Can you imagine the poor soul who had to sift through all the submissions ??

Re: "horribly ironic or dirty stuff"

[tahngarth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, of course. Just look at some of the submitted Legion and Supergirl costumes, they're almost as stripperific as modern-day superheroine costumes.

[werehawk.livejournal.com]

Rainbeaux is very much like what Halo (of Outsiders) was later. Her few powers she used here are switched a little except for red is the same. Halo's orange is concussive not gravity, where green is stasis not wind so they seem swapped. Wonder if Rainbeax was Halo's inspiration - I always liked the Aurakle aspect of Halo.