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Comic book superhero
Comics character
Fatman the Human Flying Saucer
is a fictional character, a
comic book
superhero
created by artist
C. C. Beck
and writer
Otto Binder
in the 1960s.
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[2]
Beck and Binder created Fatman long after Beck's popular creation
Captain Marvel
was canceled partly due to a
copyright infringement suit
with
DC Comics
.
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Overview
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Fatman's costume was green and yellow with a yellow flying saucer emblem on the chest.
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Fatman was fat and could change into a human flying saucer.
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His comic ran for only three issues and was published by Lightning Comics, an almost equally short-lived company.
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Fatman comics were produced in small numbers and are considered valuable because of Beck's artwork and their rarity.
Van Crawford became Fatman after coming to the aid of an alien
flying saucer
. The saucer itself turned out to be a
shapeshifting
alien, who rewarded Crawford by giving him a chocolate drink with the ability to transform him into a human flying saucer. Being a wealthy man, like many superheroes of the era, Crawford decided to use this newfound power to become a superhero. He teamed up with a teenage sidekick, Tin Man, who could turn into a robot.
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In popular culture
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Fatman was also mentioned on the second episode of series 2 of the British
panel show
Question Time
in 2022.
References
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Schelly, Bill (2016).
Otto Binder pp. 226-7
.
North Atlantic Books
.
ISBN
978-1-6231-7037-0
.
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Misiroglu, Gina (2012).
The Superhero Book: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes p. 74
.
Visible Ink Press
.
ISBN
978-1-5785-9397-2
.
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Smith, Zack (August 7, 2017).
"An Oral History of DC's CAPTAIN MARVEL/SHAZAM: The Lost Years, Part 2"
.
Newsarama
. Retrieved
July 11,
2018
.
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Wells, John (2014).
American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-1969
. TwoMorrows Publishing. pp. 147?148.
ISBN
978-1605490557
.
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Markstein, Don.
"Fatman the Human Flying Saucer"
.
Don Markstein's Toonopedia
. Retrieved
2 April
2020
.
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"GCD :: Publisher :: Lightning Comics [1960s]"
.
www.comics.org
. Retrieved
2023-01-30
.
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Morris, Jon (2015).
The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half Baked Heroes from Comic Book History
. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Quirk Books. pp. 152?153.
ISBN
978-1-59474-763-2
.
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