Who Wants To Date A Superheroine?

No relation to the similarly named Marvel Comics character, Moon Girl was the only superhero created by EC Comics prior to them shifting to specializing in horror titles. Starting out as a feature in The Happy Houlihans, Moon Girl spun off into her own title and was basically EC's answer to Wonder Woman as she was a princess from an isolated nation of women in Uzbekistan who followed her super-strong boyfriend from a neighboring kingdom called the Prince to get a job as a teacher in America. Moon Girl has a special moonstone that gives her super-strength, speed, telepathy, and the power to control her crescent-shaped Moonship which she used to fight crime with the Prince acting as her partner/sidekick. In one of her weirder adventures written by DC Comics editor Dorothy Woolfolk and drawn by Bat-Mite creator Sheldon Moldoff, Moon Girl gets a caller all the way from the year 3000 who was a pudgy pointy-eared man that called himself Future Man. He travelled back in time just to escape his battle ax wife that kept henpecking him about fixing their automatic food dispenser and fancied replacing her with a leggy lunar lady. Future Man uses devices that in the future are probably something you could buy at any department store like a hypno-ray, vanishing-ray, gravity-ray, and magnet-ray, but none of this helps him win a date with Moon Girl. Future Man busts a bank robber out of jail to help him paralyze the Prince so Future Man can capture Moon Girl, but his wife shows up in a time ship and uses a husband pacifier-ray to make him fall back in love with her. Then the happy couple go back to 3000 AD leaving Moon Girl to continue her "will they/won't they" relationship with the Prince like it's an episode of Cheers. Future Man is one of the most lowbrow characters to become a comic book supervillain who wasn't out for world domination and just wanted to be free of his overbearing relationship with a crabby woman who was too lazy to just call a repairman instead of taking out her anger issues on her deadbeat husband.

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