Or – “This One Goes Out To My Homegirls, The Super-Future Friends…*”
I started regularly reading comics at a truly wonderful time, as Marvel was shaking off it’s 70′s doldrums and DC was building up to the biggest (and probably the most important) crossover madness of all time. Both companies were also putting out handbooks explaining their long histories, and I clearly remember buying issue #5 of ‘Who’s Who In The DC Universe.” After histories of Clayface (whom I remembered from the 70′s Batman cartoon), Colossal Boy from the Legion, and Commander Steel (whom I remembered from All-Star Squadron), I encountered a drawing of a green-skinned half-Batman, half-Superman creature, named ‘Composite Superman.’ Who was he? What was his deal? How in the world did he keep half a cowl on? Why did he no-sell his Batman half? These questions and more will be answered, including one that you might not have expected: Who is the single most powerful entity in the pre-Crisis DC Universe?
