Re: Oldest active heroes
Originally posted by riv6672
Not counting immortals, extended life spans, time displacement, or some sort of cryogenics.Who are the oldest heroes, Marvel and DC or other?
Hm, not counting immortals...? That makes it hard. Namor's not immortal but he's pretty old. May be him. Probably him, really, unless you count that as 'extended life span.'
Due to the reboot, most of DC's are out of the running, everyone's super-young nowadays. Pre-reboot, Jay Garrick and Alan Scott were the shoe-ins.
Judge Dredd is interesting in that it's run real-time since the late 70s, and the main character didn't start young.
Re: Re: Oldest active heroes
Originally posted by Q99
Judge Dredd is interesting in that it's run real-time since the late 70s, and the main character didn't start young.
I read they made him older as soon as Rebelllion took over the publisher
one i can think of is Sereph, One of Wolvie's old girlfriends.
Originally posted by riv6672Sentry has been around since the late 50s and retroactively taught like every super hero everything.
Thanks for the replies.
I'd call Namor an extended lifespan, same as Wolverine.
Why was Sentry brought up i wonder. How old is he ?
Re: Re: Re: Oldest active heroes
Lesse, other books... Fred Perry's Gold Digger has Theo Diggers, who's I think in his 70s nowadays. He's not super-active, but he does return to the field occasionally in big throw-downs, and as a mage that's fine. A lot of the old-gen heroes in GD are fairly old, often originally active in the 50s/60s, before a huge incident convinced a lot of them to 'retire' (by which I mean, many left the public eye but still hero). Debra and Miracle and Xane are likely disqualified for either not aging or aging slowly, but Justice Beetle and others are in.
Originally posted by Kazenji
I read they made him older as soon as Rebelllion took over the publisher
2000ad has steadily aged him. He's had treatments to keep him in fighting shape, but time has passed year-for-year from the beginning.