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I've pretty much exhausted any ideas I've had on this, so I thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone knows something about comics.
My dad really wants this comic he read when he was a kid and I keep trying to get it for him for birthdays, but I can never find the damn thing.
So, it starred a male superhero character called The Spectrum or Spectrum(?), Spectra(?) (He's not quite sure). His alter ego though was a guy called Roy G. Biv (like the colours of the spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).
The comic was a freebie in a showbag in Australia about 40 years ago, which I'm told was a "golden age" for comics and it's like a needle in a haystack to find. I'm also aware that the character could be a small character in another comic that just got his own comic for a bit for some reason, so if you have leads on any comic he may have been in, that's fine too.
Would anyone know of message boards, or forums where comic-lovers discuss these things, or buy/sell comics? Maybe a comic database?
I'd love to get it for dad one of these days and I will pay quite handsomely (Whatever that means within the small budget of a PhD student) for this one little comic. Within reason of course.
Any help appreciated! Thank you!
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lord_dingsi pointed out "The Strangers" superhero called Spectral and sold by Mile High Comics. That's definitely similar, but since Malibu comics (who produced it) only started in the 1980's and my dad read this maybe 40 years ago, so I doubt it's the one.
It could very well be a reincarnation of an older character by the same name though, since I searched the company and found that they used characters from centaur comics, though I don't see him among those characters used.
Further searching fom these leads, found also found a hero/villain called Doctor Spectrum, but he seems to be too recent a character as well, having first appeared in 1969.
In short, I'm still searching...and very, very confused! O_o
My dad really wants this comic he read when he was a kid and I keep trying to get it for him for birthdays, but I can never find the damn thing.
So, it starred a male superhero character called The Spectrum or Spectrum(?), Spectra(?) (He's not quite sure). His alter ego though was a guy called Roy G. Biv (like the colours of the spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).
The comic was a freebie in a showbag in Australia about 40 years ago, which I'm told was a "golden age" for comics and it's like a needle in a haystack to find. I'm also aware that the character could be a small character in another comic that just got his own comic for a bit for some reason, so if you have leads on any comic he may have been in, that's fine too.
Would anyone know of message boards, or forums where comic-lovers discuss these things, or buy/sell comics? Maybe a comic database?
I'd love to get it for dad one of these days and I will pay quite handsomely (Whatever that means within the small budget of a PhD student) for this one little comic. Within reason of course.
Any help appreciated! Thank you!
lord_dingsi pointed out "The Strangers" superhero called Spectral and sold by Mile High Comics. That's definitely similar, but since Malibu comics (who produced it) only started in the 1980's and my dad read this maybe 40 years ago, so I doubt it's the one. It could very well be a reincarnation of an older character by the same name though, since I searched the company and found that they used characters from centaur comics, though I don't see him among those characters used.
Further searching fom these leads, found also found a hero/villain called Doctor Spectrum, but he seems to be too recent a character as well, having first appeared in 1969.
In short, I'm still searching...and very, very confused! O_o