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There’s something familiar about that guy…

November 10, 2009 by

Over on his blog, Joe Bloke posted the first issue of Atlas/Seaboard’s The Scorpion -


Does the Scorpion look familiar at all?


I immediately posted on the blog that he looked a hell of a lot like Marvel’s Dominic Fortune -


- only to discover that Howard Chaykin created the Scorpion, quit the book two issues in apparently as he lacked creative control (it was canceled after the third issue), then used the Scorpion as the basis for Dominic Fortune.

I always liked Fortune – although my knowledge of the character was based entirely on the non-Chaykin written (Danny Fingeroth actually wrote them) Web of Spider-Man and Iron Man stories from the 80s.


I know that Chaykin’s got a Dominic Fortune MAX series at the moment (which I also haven’t picked up) – but I wonder; why take a character to a company like Marvel after walking away from a similar character because you lack control over it?

Makes no sense to me.

Ah well, learn something new every day!

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This entry was posted on November 10, 2009 at 12:58 pm and is filed under Archive, Comics-Archived. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

One Response to There’s something familiar about that guy…

  1. Johnny B on November 11, 2009 at 10:40 am

    I'd say Howard had a better relationship with the editor-people at Marvel in the pre-Shooter mid-70's than he did with the Atlas people, plus, he revamped Scorpion/developed Fortune for the black-and-white magazine line, ensuring even more creative input.