We had a virtual birthday party for David Anthony Kraft, anyway! He had too much cheer for the happiness and friendships to end. So! Peter Benno Gillis also wrote the title which has become signature DAK, The Defender, by Marvel Comics Group. Dwight Zimmerman here became friends in art class back in North Dakota. One day, he put in a year's notice and joined Dave the Dude in the Big Apple! Jim Salicrup? Only the founding Mad Genius Associate. The Spider-Editor of my youth, and uncredited writer of Spidey Super Stories. He's busy with the Papercutz imprints today. Jo Duffy? She makes it over the roped bridge, past the gorilla, and gives DAK a sterling tribute. She pioneered writing and editing at Marvel, wrote Power Man and Iron Fist, Catwoman , and something called Star Wars . She's quick to explain, he basically WAS his Dollar Bill supporting character, dropped into the midst of the Defenders via Valkyrie's attempt to attend Empire State University...camera...

When I encountered the Prowler on the cover of The Amazing Spider-Man #93, I didn't actually have the comic, but I did read the story. The gadgets, the Ditko quality, his timeliness, yet, his modus operandi would’ve been more popular if he’d come along earlier in the Marvel Age. Truthfully, he would’ve been a brilliant antihero for DC Comics! But, I want to note, while the Flash’s Rogues Gallery was pretty much all using gadgets, and gadgets were a very common source of ‘powers’ for Silver Age costumed characters, by 1968, when they created and prepared The Prowler for his three-part (cut to two) debut in Amazing Spider-Man, he might be the last really great gadget-based character to appear, excepting Mister Miracle. You might not think either of those are very great, and the trend was not in favor of ordinary humans utilizing gadgets to have crimefighting advantages. Batman pretty much hangs up his utility belt as we knew it (especially on TV), as Denny O’Neil’s stories f...