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Hello everyone!
And welcome to a brand new episode of Majesticomic.
In today's video we are going to be discussing a character suggested by one of our fans,
Philly blunt.
If you have a suggestion for who we should profile next, let us know in the comments
section below!
Solar is a character that has appeared in many different storylines from many different
comic book publishers.
He got his start, though, in 1962 in issue number one of Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom.
Created by writer Paul S. Newman, editor Matt Murphy, and artist Bob Fujitani, Dr. Solar's
comic books had a unique advantage in the field of comics at the time.
Not only was Solar the first original character created by Gold Key Comics, he was also very
popular, due to the fact that, while most comic books sold at 15 cents per issue at
that time, Gold Key Comics only sold for 12.
This brought in a lot of fans every quickly, as did the fact that Gold Key could bypass
the Comics Code Authority without getting their seal of approval, due to the fact that
this company published so many child-friendly comic books.
As you will know from our previous video on the CCA, it was the ruin of many comic book
publishers, so Gold Key was very lucky in that respect!
The story of Dr. Solar, though, begins with a nuclear physicist named Dr. Philip Solar.
He worked at a nuclear power plant with a man named Dr. Bently, and life seemed relatively
normal…until there was an incident at the plant.
Sabotaged by Dr. Rasp, another coworker and an agent of a supervillain called Nuro, the
plant began to meltdown.
Solar tried to stop it and save his friend Bently, but in the end he wasn't able to
do either.
As the plant was exploding, Bently died, but Solar absorbed incredible amounts of radiation
that would have been fatal to any other living being.
This radiation turned his body into nothing but energy, but through sheer force of will,
he was able to return himself to human form.
From then on, though, he could turn into energy at will.
He found that he has no heartbeat anymore, but that he was, in his own words, a "walking
atomic power plant."
This gave him incredible powers, making him able to go anywhere in the world just by boosting
his energy and becoming a beam of power or electricity, but it was an extremely isolating
life.
Due to the high amounts of radiation his body emitted, he could not stay in contact with
anyone for longer than a few minutes, even if he wore a lead suit.
He lived alone in an isolation chamber, so as not to harm anyone else.
Interestingly, Solar himself could not be harmed by bullets, poisons, or physical blows,
but he could destroy himself if he used too much nuclear energy, arguably making him his
own worst enemy.
On another interesting note, Solar got neither a superhero name nor a superhero costume until
the fifth issue of his self-titled comic book.
In that issue, he got his signature red suit to cover skin that turned green when he transformed.
He also finally got his superhero name: The Man of the Atom.
Sadly, Dr. Solar, Man of the Atom, was cancelled in 1969, after just 27 issues, due to a decline
in comic book popularity in general.
He had a brief resurrection in the seventies, but it lasted only four issues until Solar
was gone again.
In 1991, though, the story got new life when another publisher, Valiant Comics, was given
permission to use characters from the now defunct Gold Key Comics in their own stories.
With writer Jim Shooter at the helm, Valiant created an all new story for Solar, losing
the "Doctor" in the title to make him simply Solar, Man of the Atom.
In this somewhat "meta" version of the story, a man named Phil Seleski is a huge
fan of the Dr. Solar comics from Gold Key, most likely due to the fact that he himself
works in a power plant.
One day, while he was testing a fusion reactor at his lab, something went wrong.
If Seleski didn't act fast, the entire area would be destroyed by the radiation.
He runs to shut off the reactor, and he succeeds…but at a cost.
Just like Dr. Solar in the original story, he absorbed enough radiation to kill a normal
person, but somehow, miraculously, he survived.
He did better than just survive, actually – he got incredible new powers that gave
him the ability to manipulate energy.
He used these powers to try to destroy nuclear weapons all over the world, in an attempt
to keep humanity safe.
But, as one might expect, the government would not let him do this.
The U.S. military tried to stop him, but they only succeeded in making him lose control
of his powers, leading the entire Earth to be sucked into an enormous black hole.
This is not the end of the story, though.
Instead of everything being completely obliterated forever, Seliski is sent back in time to a
few weeks before the black hole event.
He feels so guilty about causing the end of the world that he splits into two beings,
one of whom is Dr. Solar, from the original Gold Key comics that he was such a fan of.
The other being is Seleski himself, who remembers everything that happened, and wants desperately
to be like his hero and find a way to fix it.
Eventually the two fuse back together, and avoid the end of the world… or so it seems.
After the disaster is averted, we discover that the splitting of Selski was all in his
head, and the traveling back in time never happened.
In fact, that entire storyline was really Seleski recreating the universe in his own
way after he fell into the black hole.
The only drawback to this, though, was that the universe was now full of other superpowered
beings like him.
So, he decided to take up the mantle of Solar, Man of the Atom, to keep the rest of the world
safe.
This version of Solar was cancelled in 1996, but Acclaim Comics gave it another shot in
1997.
In this extremely short-lived version, Seleski passed his powers onto two twins, Frank and
Helena Seleski, but this didn't seem to hold reader's attention.
The story was also taken up by Dark Horse Comics in 2008, and by Dynamite Entertainment
in 2013.
In both cases, it struggled, not lasting beyond eight and twelve issues, respectively.
Solar was obviously a highly valued character, since so many publishers wanted him, but for
some reason, it never seemed to work out as well as it should have.
Regardless of its longevity, though, we will always remember the beloved nuclear-powered
physicist, Solar, Man of the Atom.
What are your thoughts on Solar, Man of the Atom?
Which version of his story do you prefer?
Let us know in the comments!
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