Live models portraying DC Comics characters in print
The 1990s were a drought for live action DC Comics superheroes.
(Those days seem light-years from the current landscape, where the CW's Arrowverse has included dozens of unlikely characters from Gypsy to Ragman and a DC streaming service launching later this year will bring us Hawk and Dove and Robotman.)
The entire decade, the only two capes to appear in feature films were Batman (plus Robin and Batgirl) and Steel. The TV shows were limited to Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Superboy, Swamp Thing, The Flash, and Human Target, and only the first three lasted more than a season.
Oh, let's not forget the 1997 Baby Ruth commercial featuring...Hawkman?
Because of this dearth, it stood out even more when the print comics used live models to portray characters. Aside from Vertigo, it happened only twice that I can determine, once in an ad and once on a cover:
1994
1995 (The Grand Comics Database says
the model is named Chris Eades.)
(Those days seem light-years from the current landscape, where the CW's Arrowverse has included dozens of unlikely characters from Gypsy to Ragman and a DC streaming service launching later this year will bring us Hawk and Dove and Robotman.)
The entire decade, the only two capes to appear in feature films were Batman (plus Robin and Batgirl) and Steel. The TV shows were limited to Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Superboy, Swamp Thing, The Flash, and Human Target, and only the first three lasted more than a season.
Oh, let's not forget the 1997 Baby Ruth commercial featuring...Hawkman?
Because of this dearth, it stood out even more when the print comics used live models to portray characters. Aside from Vertigo, it happened only twice that I can determine, once in an ad and once on a cover:
1994
1995 (The Grand Comics Database says the model is named Chris Eades.)
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