Crazy, crazy, Doll Man.
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| Crazy from the very start. |
Darrel "Doll Man" Dane.
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| Sure, Darrel. That is the sanest reaction to being six inches tall I can imagine. |
Comic's first shrinking hero (I think).
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| Whose greatest enemy was an empty Dress Suit. |
In choosing a dial, there are a number of other shrinking heroes I could have used (The Atom, Ant-Man, and the Wasp, chief among them).
I chose...
none of them.
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| I swear, he's not overcompensating. |
Yes, Doll Man is a Tiny hero and needs a dial with the Tiny symbol (it makes a character harder to hit and easier to carry by his friends). But more figures that just shrinking heroes have the Tiny Symbol. And I wanted a dial that capture of bit of the CRAZY that is Doll Man. So I chose:
Yes, the Wonder Twins' pesky pet, the horrible and chaotic space monkey Gleek, turns out to have a pretty good dial for Doll Man. Leap-Climb and Flurry for Doll Man's two-fisted bravado, Superstrength and Invulnerability (both of which his stories demonstrate for his tiny form), and, most essentially, PERPLEX to represent Doll Man's erratic nature.
Here's how that looks translated to Doll Man.
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| Like Doll Man, the dial is short but sweet. |
Doll Man will be a great figure on an Atom team, barrelling in opponents ready to clobber them with, um, a pencil, or confounding them with his antics at a distance.
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Okay, I finally figured out what has been nagging me about Doll Man's costume for a while. Look up the Challengers of the Unknown villain known as the Multi-Man. Yeah.
Roy Thomas has been known to write stories just to explain how two heroes could have similar costumes. I'm almost disappointed he never tackled this one.
- HJF1
This reminds me, I bought 3D prints of action figures of Doll Man and Doll Girl. I need to paint them.
Greetings! I don't know if you take suggestions for new JuJuBit figures, but I just read your old post about Batman losing his best female villains (Catwoman, Poison Ivy, and Overexposed Clown Lady) to the curse of "fans want to date them, so they can't be evil anymore", and I propose bringing back Batman's other interesting, if somewhat obscure villain (though she may not make for a visually-interesting HeroClix fig). I'm, of course, talking about Noc--hahaha, I can't even type that with a straight face. No, not Boring Vampire(?) Lady, but a villainess that ticks off all the boxes for a great Batman villain (my apologies if you've mentioned her on here; haven't read the whole blog):
1) Disfigured
2) A grudge against a specific aspect of society
3) Is both a physical and mental match for the Caped Crusader
4) Has a personality disorder that makes her creepy as #!@%
Can...you...guess?
Bruce, I believe "Overexposed Clown Lady" is copyrighted as a Spirit Halloween costume, and, as you know, I do not speak of N-------. I actually cannot deduce the character you as referring to, but I am curious. As for JuJuBit figures... well, those cost me MONEy, so, heh: NO, I do not take suggestions. They also have to be character for whom some (at least vaguely) appropriate heroclix dial exists.
Understandable. I'm referring to the Manikin, who is possibly my favorite Bronze Age villain.
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