Now Plas is just showing off his trick shooting skills.
Police Comics #7
Comic Magazines, Inc (February, 1942)
I should be doing this with the heroes on the cover, but we did Plastic Man last issue. Firebrand has really gotten the short end of the stick from DC because they don’t seem to know what to do with him. I couldn’t find much about what Rod did in DC Comics outside of being bounced between universes. When his sister who I haven’t heard of, at least yet, developed pyrokinetic powers (think Steven King’s Firestarter), she took up the name. It’s been bounced to a few different characters since, including the latest, Janet Fals, who needs to beat people up to stay alive. (Yeah, it doesn’t make sense in the wiki and I doubt it makes sense in action.) Why even bother using the name at this point? Plus wearing asbestos is now shown to be a bad idea and he’s just a dude who drops a torch as his calling card.
It doesn’t help that Marvel Comics has their own Firebrand, usually some kind of extremist against “the system” or “the man” or whatever they’re doing at the time. This idea has also been slapped onto numerous characters over the years. It’s kind of a mess. Both companies are wasting a perfectly good name.
[Read along with me here of if that’s too light they have an alternate version that while darker it’s still easier to read for me, so that’s what I’m using.]
