Human Fly Flew Away From His Own Comic
Even though there had been a handful of comic book characters called The Human Fly, both good guys and bad, only two of them managed to get their own official comic. One of them was a Bronze Age series by Marvel which was recently brought back to life by IPI Comics. The other was a character that didn't even get to show up in his own title by IW Publishing, sometimes billed as Super Comics. IW's main revenue came from reprinting material from different former comics publishers like Doll Man, Kaanga, Man O' Mars, and Plastic Man, but one of them didn't have the correct title character included in it. During the Silver Age, IW published at least two issues titled The Human Fly, an Issue #1 and an Issue #10, with no word if the intervening issues were ever printed. Israel Waldman who headed up IW Publishing, instead of having his title of The Human Fly actually having someone called The Human Fly, the comic instead had reprints of Blue Beetle, specifically the original Dan Garrett by Fox from the mid-40s. It doesn't say this on the cover of the first issue, but the second one clearly states that it stars the mighty Blue Beetle. If you were a clueless newbie into the world of comics collecting and you see a copy of IW's Purple Claw, you're going to expect to see Purple Claw in that issue, which you in fact do. The Human Fly however contains no human-type fly at all. The term of "human fly" was used to describe stuntmen who would climb on the sides of building, but Blue Beetle was a dude in an armored outfit who fought criminals and would sometimes have superpowers. The Human Fly comics also included tales of detective Johnny Earthquake, the super-powered Bronze Man, as well as the puzzling patriotic Puppeteer who of course never uses puppets in his crimefighting along with his sidekick eagle named Raven. No explanation was ever given as to why no character called The Human Fly actually appeared in the The Human Fly comics, other than it was a marketing gimmick to lure in exploitable simps thinking they were getting another Spider-Man mockery.
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