Regardless if his history. You gotta admit...the costume is Iconic. ============= Support my Work Here- heroicstudios.... ============= Buy Some Gear - heroicstudios-... =============
During WWII, there was meat rationing, so people couldn't buy as much as they wanted. Some people set up their own black market butcher shops, where a person could buy large quantities of meat, but it wasn't the best quality. "How's Tricks"?, was the typical greeting for people involved in racketeering back in those days. If you understood what it meant, then you were a criminal too.
There was a pulp character called the Moon Man who dressed like an astronaut to fool people into thinking he was an alien from the moon, and he redistributed captured criminals' money to the poor. As far as I can tell there is no connection between the two Moon Men, although the pulp character was loosely adapted into comics under the name The Raven.
I love the Moon Man. Every element, from him just sitting around in costume reading the paper, to brutalizing a poor secretary, to his super sexy legs, Boss McGool needs better thugs, at least ones who don't yell "Jeepers"! I'd have liked him to "moon" the bad guys and run away laughing.
I felt the same way. He has his charms to the point where i felt dissatisfied with how poorly they handled the character. Missed potential if you ask me.
My hometown had a Moon-Man, but he didn’t have a fancy car. His super skill involved standing on the back of an old truck, where he’d drop his pants as his sidekick drove him by sporting events. He’d often be heard yelling, “Lookie here!”, before vanishing back into the rolling hills of the backroads.
He has the right components one could have used in better stories. He gets a better mark than his premier story. In those days, the meat situation was a real worry, so this made him a ground level hero.
Well, if you ever read Werewolf by Night (Ha) you'd know that there's a full moon that last 3 nights each month (not every other week either); unless there's a rare Blue Moon, then it happens twice (Blue Moons happen once every 2 or 3 years). MoonMan's only 1940s appearance was in Mystic Comics #5 (December, 1940).
@@HeroicNerd Coincidence? I think not! ha!!! Good call, and his outfit is very close to the Hourman Rex Tyler original suit. The main difference being he has pants, just with the wrestling style strong man undies over them. he's not a pantless wonder like 😅 THE MOONMAN!👍
How did the criminals know who he was, but the policeman at the precinct didn't know? We need more Moon-Man stories. The character has probably fallen into the public domain, although you'd probably want to verify that before using him.
He gets a vision or something at the beginning of each month and has roughly three and a half weeks to put the pieces together. Before the light of the next full moon.
This is pretty much a empty canvas for whoever might use this character in the future. I think even the silly things could be played with, making him more of a serious character, but others not being able to take him serious. Would be fun to add inner monologues about good prices for razor blades or about how good they are. Maybe he could have some kind of moon dust body cream that heals wounds faster, but maybe it works best on shaved skin. There is so much to play with, with this character based on this comic and then a whole world of things to add.
Love that the Moon-mobile has a moon license plate. Jeez Louise, Moonie goes to the secretary's place, then to the mobster's place, then back to the secretary's, then back to the mobster's...thank the moon this was only eight pages. But then he hops a train to act out the third act of the Three Stooges' _Hold That Lion!_ Coerced confessions that wouldn't stand up in court for five seconds were all the rage in the Golden Age. Wildcat and the Sandman not only dangled murderers out of a high window on a rope and threatened to cut it in order to get them to confess, one artist straight-up _traced_ the other's version (unless it was the same artist, I didn't check at the time).
🤣I haven't laughed this hard in a long while when it comes to anything superhero related. I loved your jokes, the poking fun at this in your own way was so funny! Love the "where is your pants, & why is your wang out pal" had me rolling with giggles! Thanks for this awesome video, it made my day! Huge fan of your content, keep it up! The only classic hero I let slide the no pants stuff is the original Atom from the J.S.A. LOL I'll quote Todd Howard for my reasoning on Atom's pantless look "It just works" 😆
This story is exactly same beat for beat from The Face & few other hero's Golden Age stories! I've noticed they did that quite often. They didn't need to really! Coz they were fresh with ideas and great talents on hand they had. But I guess, they had to. Coz they were pulling out stories left right and centre. But all in all.......Great Fantastic stories Golden Age was!
The backgrounds were quite nice. Gustavson was a professional artist. Not one of the big artist names but a respected one. As for Moon Man....Yeah, we never even learned his real name. Apparently he has no friends and just rattled around his penthouse wearing his costume all day. To be a sucessful comic character with lasting power, you really need a god balanced secret identity with freinds to interact with. Superman, Batman, WonderWoman, Captain Marvel all had rich supporting casts. MoonMan doesn't even have a butler or girlfriend, let alone a youthful ward or anybody. He really is just a guy with a moon on his chest.
@jerrywalls3402 I agree; there were a variety of comic book stories extolling the evils of food supplies gone wrong or sabotaged during WWII; I recall, for example, Wonder Woman story involving Nazi spies damaging children's milk... Also, I like the Moon Man's legging-less trunks (many heroes of that era went that route: the Patriot, the Atom, Gladiator [who also went topless), Catman, etc.,
Moon-Man Vs Batman, Robin, and Superman exists in 'Worlds Finest 98'. I know because i have a few copies of it and love it. its a little later of course, circa 1958 . So yes he returned at least once.
Hmmm, let's see: Moon Man is a wealthy fetishist who gets the urge, whenever the full moon is out, to break into a poor working girl's apt and terrorize her , then goes on to beat up a respectable businessman who's just looking put for his bottom line. Good stuff. Fred Guardineer's art was very attractive tho. Did you notice the panel with the train with the long streamer of smoke going under that bridge Moon Man is driving over? Very nice composition
He only fights at night, because then he only has to worry about mooning people with his pantless suit. If he dared fight crime during the day villains would have to face his morning WOOD of Justice instead of his full moon! Joking a side, I did find it strange about the whole full moon thing, if he actually can only crime fight on full moon nights, talk about a limited hero. lol 🤣
Being a comic fan and collector, I'd have to give Moon-Man a score of 5 out of 10. Mainly because he has no Moon powers/gadgets, so why call yourself Moon-Man if you have nothing to do with the Moon other than wearing a costume with a moon on your chest, and you only fight crime during full moons?
So, is Moon-man in public domain? Could anyone just make new comics for him? In this city, wouldn't villains just do crime when the moon isnt full? A lot of early Batman comics would have the moon full in every story....just for art's sake i guess.
Why I seem to remember reading this same exact story with a different hero? Was giving rotten meat to orphans a common crime at the time? Also the image on his chest looks more like a Sun than a Moon.
These heroes with the names tied to the night Batman Moon man Midnight etc and they come out in the day. Did anyone create a hero that only came out at night humans not werewolves or vampires?
I wonder if moon man. Could some kinds of alternate timeline version of moonknight. We never got to meet the orphans so I don’t care about them either. If we got to meet some of them playing with the moon man in his civilian identity then we would care about the I mean if one of the orphans had a name like Steve or Billy . We would care
Next time I hear about any poisoned food affair I'm calling in Moon Man . Especially if that poisoned food affair involves orphans . I score Moon Man 4 out of ten because he can't hide from secretaries very well .
There was once a man who; stole a woman’s purse, came back and broke into her apartment, harassed her, threatened her into signing a confession, all the while wearing a mask and no pants. Tell me exactly what this looks like?
Moon Man worries me. His ladylike legs are shaved and he breaks into houses like the BTK killer once did. No wonder the publisher gave him a one-way ticket to the moon. Today he roams the dark side of the moon. This superhero seems more like a stalking, perverted janitor.
