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Doctor Solar (Comic Book)
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Doctor Solar is a comic book superhero originally published by Gold Key Comics starting in 1962. A physicist whose name was actually "Solar", Philip Solar was trapped in a nuclear reactor by saboteurs. He survived and found that he gained enormous power and could turn into and produce energy. He was created by Paul S. Newman and Matt Murphy.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Solar held his own title from October, 1962 to April, 1969, for a total of 27 issues. The series was revived in the early 1980s, continuing the original numbering. Four issues appeared between April, 1981 and March, 1982. He had guest appearances in the Doctor Spektor series. But this was the extent of his use by the original publisher.In the 1990s, Solar, followed by fellow Gold Key alumni Magnus Robot Fighter and later Turok, was licensed by Valiant Comics. Under Jim Shooter, Solar became the central superhero of the Valiant universe. Doctor Philip Seleski had read the Gold Key comic books as a child and his thoughts affected the reactor to copy the comic book character's origin. He wielded godlike power, re-created the universe during his origin - subconsciously integrating the events of Turok and Magnus into reality - and was responsible for several Crisis Crossovers.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })In 2010, Shooter restarted this title, as well as Turok and Magnus, Robot Fighter, for Dark Horse Comics, who licensed the characters directly from Gold Key using stories based on Gold Key elements (for instance, he's named Phil Solar again). The series quickly ended after a combination of unpopular art and Schedule Slip.Doctor Solar (along with Magnus, Turok, and Doctor Spektor) has recently been revived again by Dynamite Comics. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Subverted in the Dark Horse era; Shooter has written that power doesn't corrupt, power magnifies and a good man with power would have more opportunity to do good. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Erica Pierce. Erica Seleski to a degree as well, at least until she gets better control over her powers. | |
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Not Wearing Tights | |
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Not Wearing Tights: For his first couple of appearances, he did not wear a costume and did not have a codename (he just did his heroics surreptitiously). | |
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Phlebotinum du Jour | |
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Phlebotinum du Jour: Shooter's series overview invokes black holes, magnetic monopoles, strange matter, transhumanism and nanotechnology. | |
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Power Incontinence | |
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Power Incontinence: In his early appearances, Doc emitted low-level radiation all the time, and thus owned a lot of lead-lined clothes, spent most of his time in his lead-lined lab, and had to break up with his girl. | |
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Crossover Couple | |
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Crossover Couple: He had a fling with Void from Wild C.A.T.s (WildStorm) once. It didn't end so well. | |
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An Ice Person | |
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It's a good thing he didn't get, say, ice powers. | |
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Meaningful Name: In the original and Dark Horse versions, his surname is actually Solar. | |
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Literal Split Personality | |
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Literal Split Personality: For a while, during the Valiant Comics origin. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: In the Dark Horse imprint, after the Whitmore fiasco and after Moloch repeatedly rapes his perfect Tulpa-wife, Susan, she runs off at the first chance she gets and she's never seen again. For that matter, Whitmore's Tulpa powers are never resolved despite still being capable of conjuring destructive entities in his sleep. | |
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Superpower Lottery | |
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Superpower Lottery: Something later lampshaded in the Valiant reboot as Seleski comments on how ridiculously bad the writing was to have a man with absolute control over energy being dangerously radioactive. | |
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Meta Sequel | |
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Meta Sequel: The Valiant reboot is set in a universe where the Gold Key series exists as a work of fiction, and Doctor Solar's persona is inspired by them, which lets it keep the bits that worked and poke fun at the bits that didn't. | |
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Telephone Teleport | |
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Telephone Teleport: Doctor Solar is capable of travelling like this. | |
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Legacy Character: In the Dynamite Comics revival, Solar becomes this when Phil dies and his daughter takes up the mantle. | |
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A God Am I | |
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A God Am I: A recurring theme in the series. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Of Captain Atom, who debuted two years before Solar. Captain Atom, in turn, influenced Dr. Manhattan of Watchmen and, in some ways, Solar is like an Expy of him. | |
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Steven Ulysses Perhero | |
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Steven Ulysses Perhero: It's a good thing he didn't get, say, ice powers. Averted in the Valiant and Dynamite versions of the characters, where his last name (and that of his daughter Erica, the second Solar) is Seleski. | |
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Atomic Superpower | |
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Atomic Superpower: Solar can control atomic and subatomic energy. | |
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