Max O'Millions
From Herocopia
The founding member of Honor Guard who banded together the original line-up of heroes old and new to combat the Legions of Midnight.
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Vital Statistics
Status: inactive
Real Name:
Debuted: Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol. 1 #2
Earliest known appearance: 1959
Affiliation: Honor Guard (founder)
Base of Operations:
Powers: He has the ability to grow in volume. He uses a giant size to fight crime.
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There was some sort of animated show featuring Max during the mid 1970s.
Speculations, Observations and Theories
May have been present, in an updated costume, to fight Madame Majestrix's invasion of Astro City in 1973 (see DA1:4, page 9, lower panel).
Kurt Busiek has said that in the imaginary "Astro Comics" line he envisions the Astro City world coming from, Max O'Millions was created in-between the Golden and Silver Ages, during the period superheroes had fallen out of popularity. He had begun as a comic book character in a genre other than superheroes. When the Silver Age hit and made superheroes popular again, he was turned into a superhero. What genre Max O'Millions likely originally belonged to I'll leave to those more knowledgeable about comic book history than me to say.
Appearances (in published order)
Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol. 1 #2
Astro City: Local Heroes #4
Astro City/Arrowsmith The Flip Book
