Hey Palookateers, we're officially at the half way point! The sheer Palookaness is about to ramp up to 11! Will your favorite Palooka make the list? I guess we'll have to wait and see!
#50: THE ENFORCERS
Over the years, unfairly or not, I've come to judge a comic fan on their opinion of Marvel's trio of hired goons The Enforcers; if they scoff and dismiss them as dumb, I know I'm not going to take their opinion on any further topics of the Four-Color variety.
While a few others have joined their ranks over the years, the founding members (lumbering brute Ox, diminutive judo master Fancy Dan, and master of the lariat, the cowboy Montana) have been around in some form since 1964.
#49: JACK O' LANTERN
When Marvel first introduced the original Jack O' Lantern into the Spider-Man mythos, he seemed to be poised to be the next Green Goblin/Hobgoblin. 20 years later (and three different guys wearing the costume) and he has sporadic appearances, almost all of which are outside the Spidey books.
I think the character was probably most popular during the 90s Spider-Man cartoon, but was soon tossed aside for the much more popular symbiotes like Venom and Carnage. I think some might have felt that he was a cheap imitation of Green Goblin, but I always loved his look, he was different enough to stand on his own.
#48: CIRCUS OF CRIME
I love silly, dated concepts that outlive their origins.
In this day and age, circuses are all but disappeared, figments of a time when choices for entertainment were far less available than they are today.
What I always liked was how rife the concept was for super villainy...you could seemingly could up with a villainous offense out of every single circus archetype. The Ringmaster has always been the standout character, and the Circus have fought everyone from Daredevil to the Hulk.
#47: SALEM'S SEVEN
Salem's Seven. 7 brothers and sisters who live in "New Salem" where all the town's residents are magic users. They share the same father, Nicholas Scratch, who's essentially the Devil. Their grandmother is Agatha Harkness, who basically taught The Scarlet Witch magic.
Comics have never given me enough Salem's Seven. I want toys, a movie, a WB. Series.
#46: BLOOD PACK
In the summer of 1993, both Marvel and DC separately decided to reinvigorate their comics by adding a bunch of new characters. Marvel did so by releasing a bunch on annuals and debuting a new character in each. DC on the other hand decided to make it a whole event, tying all of their new characters into a massive storyline featuring Xenomorph knockoffs killing people across the DCU, some of which survive and become "New Bloods." While some of them had solo books (Gunfire, Hitman) DC decided to form a team from some of those characters, and that team was Bloodlines: Ballistic. Nightblade. Mongrel. Razorsharp. Geist...and a bunch of other super-nineties super hero names.
It's actually painful to read some of those books now, and most of the characters were barely even one dimensional...but I applaud trying to create new characters, and they've even recently tried to bring some of those characters back into continuity.
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