for Charlton Comics in 1973. Though the character's original series was short-lived, the lightly
humorous hero has become a cult-classic sporadically revived by various independent comics
publishers.
In 1983, during a period of financial uncertainty for Charlton, the company sold independent
publisher First Comics the rights to E-Man. First's E-Man ran 25 issues (April 1983 - Aug.
1985), with the company also publishing a seven-issue miniseries, The Original E-Man and
Michael Mauser, that reprinted those characters' Charlton stories.
Staton did the artwork, with stories written by Martin Pasko, Paul Kupperberg, Cuti, and Staton
himself. In the course of the run, Staton acquired the copyright to the character from First,
although First Comics retained ownership of those stories that had been published by them.
Later publications
Several years after the cancellation of the First Comics series, Comico published an E-Man
one-shot (Sept. 1989) by Cuti & Staton, followed by a three-issue miniseries (Jan.-March
1990). After Comico's demise, Alpha Productions did a one-shot in (Sept. 1993), as well as
three ashcan previews of that issue.
E-Man appeared in the two-page story "Come and Grow Old With Me", by Cuti and Staton,
published in the magazine Comic Book Artist #12 (March 2001).
Cuti & Station reteamed for two one-shots by Digital Webbing Press published the one-shots
E-Man: Recharged (Oct. 2006) and E-Man: Dolly (Sept. 2007), each with Cuti & Staton as the
creative team.[1] The indicia for each listed E-Man as copyrighted by "Joe Staton/First
Comics".
A previously unpublished E-Man story (done originally for Alpha Productions) by Cuti & Staton,
saw print inCharlton Spotlight #6 (2008), along with an unpublished Mike Mauser story
Fictional character biography
E-Man is a sentient packet of energy thrown off by a nova. Traveling the galaxy he learned
about life, how to duplicate the appearance of life, and good and evil. Reaching Earth, he met
exotic dancer/grad student Katrinka Colchnzski (who attended Xanadu University), also known
as Nova Kane (novocaine), and formed himself into a superhero dubbed E-Man, with a civilian
identity dubbed "Alec Tronn" (electron). His emblem was the famous mass-energy
equivalenceformula "E=mc2", and his powers included firing energy blasts from his hands,
changing his appearance, and transforming part or all of his body into anything he could
envision (e.g., turning his feet into jet engines so he could fly).
Nova would later be caught in a nuclear explosion and gain the same powers as E-Man and
become his partner; later still, she would lose her powers and become a normal human being
again, only to regain her powers sometime afterward. During their early adventures they picked
up a pet koala namedTeddy Q, whose intelligence grew to the point where he had a job
waiting tables in a cafe
well written
ReplyDeletevery well done
ReplyDeleteGood work
ReplyDelete