If you missed last week's post with the first three pages of today's feature, you might want
to read that first.
The answer to our mystery hero's identity:
We already know that
Joe Guy is the illegitimate love child of
Superboy and
Amelia Earhardt (ish), but what can our hero actually do?
Joe Guy is an old favorite character, not a recent discovery from one of my digs. That being the case, you might guess he runs more than a bit on the Odd side, even when hewing to standard formula. The puns may be bad at times, but much is forgiven, in my eyes, by his Wotta-gear. So much mockery built in to a simple pun label.
Rather than attempt to summarize Joe further, let us continue his first story - picking up right after the three page prologue that appear last week
(link if you didn't look at the link above and have now changed your mind)
I'll tell you one thing though - if they were somehow to make a movie, i have not the vaguest clue who to cast as Joe. I clipped
Jim Stenstrum and
Abel Laxamana's names from the first page of the prologue to hide the hints, so they've been inserted into the two page spread below to compensate -
I was thinking that Joe had about 7-9 adventures, but digging back it seems that there were only 5.
This first one appeared in
The Rook #7 -
The Rook is another distinctly interesting character, one that we'll look at later. Probably about the same time we finally get back to
Aztec Ace.
After spending the focus on introduction in the first tale, we start to learn more of the world in which Joe lives and adventures, including some of the other occupants -
Apparently it's quite the oddly mixed world, eh? And one that likely could never exist again. So we'll be coming back to follow along on Joe's adventures. Including that long-awaited reunion...
...but that's not until his 4th adventure. We'll get there...
Joe Guy: America's Foremost Hero by Jim Stenstrum and Abel Laxamana for Rook #7 (1981)
