John Force (otherwise known as "The Magic Agent") is a fascinating character due to just how much we don't know about him. He wears an eyepatch (this comic came out a year before Nick Fury's first appearance btw), hinting towards some form of injury, but we don't know how he got it. We also don't know how he got the magic coin from which he gets all his powers.

The coin had four greek pillars, corresponding to different powers (helpfully labelled) including Telepathy, Illusion, Hypnosis, and Extra-sen Perception... a very odd collection of powers there, I must admit.

While a magical secret agent has great potential (he's probably one of the characters most deserving of some sort of revival), he unfortunately only lasted for 3 issues.

It occurs to me I should probably have some sort of pinned post if I intend to use this place as a way to share my work, so:

Carrd https://marvelousmop.carrd.co/

Series:

• Jenny Over-There: 925 Universe (A workplace comedy about Jenny Over-There, an aggrieved woman who works at an eldritch call centre with the goal of helping people across the multiverse locate various 'thingies'. Main cast also includes The Man in Grey and public domain superhero Dynamite Thor) https://archiveofourown.org/series/2955447
• The Journal of Dr. Daniel Garret (Alternate history series detailing Dr. Garret's encounters with Superheroes in the mid-1900s) https://dangarretjournal.tumblr.com/

Miscellaneous Shorts:

• Base Named Solace 5 (10,000 Dawns) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Spirits-Bright-Halloween-Winter/dp/B09P1QPNSN
• Marksmanship-522 in a Passable Adventure with Doctor Omega (Crew of Copper Colored Cupids) https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/2022/07/23/marksmanship-522-in-a-passable-adventure-with-doctor-omega/
• Academy 27:
  • Hall Pass (Chopping Mall but in a School and with less death) https://www.arcbeatlepress.com/news-and-updates/academy-27-hall-pass-by-callum-phillpott-warsong
  • A27: The Roleplaying Game (Session 5 "Torn Apart", loosely based off "The Room" - technically the Disaster Artist) https://www.arcbeatlepress.com/news-and-updates/press-release-arcbeatle-press-is-now-a27
• The Cosmology of Sherlock Holmes ("Sherlock Versus Herlock" & "Dark Dealings") https://www.arcbeatlepress.com/news-and-updates/a-lost-holmes-manuscript-discovered-the-cosmology-of-sherlock-holmes

Pride month is coming to a close, and unfortunately I spent most of it talking about spiders here... to be fair, most of the queer people I know like spiders (even more specifically the spiders-men), but I understand that it doesn't quite constitute representation, so I set off to find something substantive to present today! Unfortunately, most public domain heroes are quite straight, so I settled for one who happened to have "gay" in his name (but like in the old fashioned way).

Jim Collins was just your average Joe - or I guess average Jim in his case - until, one day, he got framed for a crime he didn't commit! So now he's constantly on the run, dispensing justice wherever he goes... yeah, that's a good enough reason.

Jim wasn't alone however, since he was followed by a sidekick named Patsy. Presumably Jim hoped that, if anyone tried to frame him for any further crimes, his sidekick would take the fall for him instead.

Now, looking at this comic, you might assume his stories take place in the old west... you are a fool. These stories are set in modern day 1940s America - specifically Texas - it just also happens that everything looks like it's the Old West.

THe Gay Desperado lasted for technically 13 issues, but also had several reprints under different names and with different colourations - he was also Lone Vigilante (bit on the nose), Masked Blackjack (whose real name was Tom), and Bold Buckaroo (who presumably got his cowboy name from Chuck Tingle).

Happy Pride!

Throughout this series, we've seen quite an interesting array of fashion senses displayed by various heroes, from the typical to the honestly quite cool to the frankly bizarre. I'll let you decide where the Blue Lady falls.

Lucille Martin was just your average novelist who, on a return trip, is gifted a magic Bird Ring. Later, after some other incidents, she discovers she has unlocked super strength and, after a couple of issues, she discovers she can evaporate into mist! Y'know, like birds.

Deciding to put her Bird Ring powers to good use, she takes up the moniker of "The Blue Lady" and makes her own costume... complete with a bird hat for some reason.

Unfortunately, she only lasted for 3 issues.