The Concept and Characters: The genesis for this series began in 1965, when a character by the name of Immortal Man first appeared in the pages of DC’s Strange Adventures #177. Immortal Man, true to his name, could not die. Okay, he could die, but he would always come back to life, from the caveman days of 48,000 BC to today.
The problem with Immortal Man, as a character, was that although he had some limited powers (beyond immortality), he was mostly just a regular guy who kept coming back to life. That might be a fascinating concept to explore, if given the space, but Silver Age DC comics were notoriously short on space and long on packing lots of crazy pseudo-science and rapid-fire plot points at the reader. As an action hero, Immortal Man was lacking, and he mostly gained notoriety, at least to the DC readership, as a member of the Forgotten Heroes. Ironic, I know.
[Let’s remember Immortal Man]
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