Cover Credits |
Artist: Harry G. Peter |
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Comic Title: Millennium Edition:Sensation Comics 1 (#41)
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: October 2000
On Sale Date:
August 2, 2000 Direct Market Date August 2, 2000
Source: Previews, Vol. 10 #6 (#138)
Direct Market Date August 2, 2000
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 2, 2000
Direct Market Date August 2, 2000
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: August 2
Copyright Date July 21, 2000
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 2000
Cover Price: $3.95
Page Count: 64
Editor: Adam Philips
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Title: (The Origin of Wildcat)
Pages: 10
Feature(s):
Wildcat (of Earth-2)
Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Irwin Hasen
Reprinted From:
Sensation Comics #1 (1942)
Feature Character(s)
- Wildcat (Ted Grant; origin and first appearance; next appearance in Sensation Comics #2)
Supporting Character(s)
- Joan Fortune (Socker’s girlfriend; first appearance; next appearance in Sensation Comics #2)
Villain(s)
- Flint and Skinner (boxing managers; no further appearances)
- Fain (a henchman; no further appearances)
- Two unnamed hoodlums (no further appearances)
Other Character(s)
- Joe Morgan (identity revealed in All-Star Squadron Annual #1; next appearance in All-Star Squadron Annual #1)
- Socker Smith (a boxing champ; dies in this story; no further appearances)
- Henry Grant (Ted's father; no further appearances)
- An unnamed boy (no further appearances)
Comments:
Wildcat’s origin is told in this story. Additional details were added, including the involvement of Joe Morgan as Ted’s trainer, in the flashback in All-Star Squadron Annual #1.
This story originally was not titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of JSA All Star Archives Vol. 1 in which this story is reprinted.
Synopsis:
Ted Grant a promising boxer is forced to give up his college career when his parents die. However, he helps boxer Socker Smith fight off two holdup men and gets a job as Smith’s sparing partner.
Grant soon proves to be a good enough boxer to earn his own bouts. Flint and Skinner, Smith’s managers, arrange fights for Grant including a title shot against Smith himself.
During the bout, the managers plant a needle in Grant’s glove which kills Smith. Grant is accused of murder, but he escapes custody when the managers try to silence him. Inspired by Green Lantern, Ted dons a costume and forces confessions from the men responsible for Smith’s death. In doing so, he clears his own name and decides to continue as the costumed Wildcat.
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