This profile is about the sword-and-sciencery (new word !) heroine Starfire, back in 1976. Only a young woman’s sword and her courage will challenge the inhuman hordes who would enslave her people !

A rather big and muscled profile for a barbarian warrior of the same ilk, who’s appeared in his own series and beyond over the decades. This series of writeups starts with the Fifteen Worlds of the DC Implosion.

The “15 worlds” is an aborted cosmology that existed in DC Comics during the “DC Implosion”. Primarily those written by David Michelinie such as Claw the Unconquered, Starfire or Star Hunters.

Minor enemy of Shade the Changing Man during the 1977/78 Ditko run. Gaseous form and mind probes.

This covers Black Lightning from 1977 (his debut) to the early 1980s, using only data from this era. Olympic champ, legendary teacher and electrically-powered street vigilante. This profile is the first in a series, see details within.

A psionic, gadgets-happy non-lethal 1970s vigilante crimebuster.

This profile covers Jack Kirby’s Atlas sole 1970s appearance, in First Issue Special. Atlas was an heroic fantasy noble, benign super-strongman. He had potential, really.

An obscure 1970s comics character, published as the first NYPD female patrol officers hit the streets. Mostly of historical interest (the profile includes a historical primer) and maybe for retro campaigns, though she returned decades later as a police chief in Ivy Town.

One of the heroic fantasy protagonists launched in 1975 as part of the DC Implosion.

A doomed, deadly swordsman and adventurer trying to kill the local Devil to reclaim his stolen soul.