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Author Topic: Does this X-Men villain look familiar to anyone else?  (Read 1393 times)
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« on: May 16, 2005, 07:53:00 PM »

I was reboxing and rebagging some of my old comics I brought back from storage in Mom's hall closet and was going through the X-Men last night. I was somewhere around "Uncanny X-Men" 131 when I noticed a character who had an uncanny resemblence to...Dan Curtis. Check out the hair and features! This character was a mutant with superstrength who grew more powerful the more he was struck by absorbing kinetic energy. He was a member of "The Hellfire Club"   >:D who had kidnapped and defeated the X-Men, most especially Jean Grey who was their love slave. There was a lot of influence from the TV Avenger episode with Emma Peal, also entitled "The Hellfire Club."  >:D And the character's name, Sebastian Shaw. Coincidence? I think not.
   Below is the best link I could find with panels from this storyline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Shaw_%28comics%29

Judge for yourselves and let me know what you think...

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« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2005, 09:12:41 PM »

What a hoot!  He actually somewhat resembles Quentin in those dreadful Gold Key comics.  (I always thought Quentin in those books looked more like Tasmanian pop star Engelbert Humperdinck than David Selby.)

An interesting detail is that the episodes with Sebastian Shaw (the DS character played by Chris Pennock (failed to see the light of day from their original broadcast in 1970 till the Sci Fi Channel's original broadcast of the series in the 90s.  They were part of a package of the final year of DS shows that World Vision never were able to syndicate.  I heard the high fee they wanted to charge was the reason, since a lot of the networks syndicating DS in the 70s and 80s were PBS stations.

I guess the creator of this character must have been quite a DS fan!

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« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2005, 02:11:24 AM »


 Interesting.  You might be onto something here.

   On a related note, Jeff Thompson put together a book a few years back that listed DS references in comic books.  There were quite a few. 
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« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2005, 07:28:47 AM »

He looks like Dan Curtis with the comic book Quentin's sideburns -- LOL!
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« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2005, 06:40:22 PM »

    On a related note, Jeff Thompson put together a book a few years back that listed DS references in comic books.  There were quite a few. 
       Hey Penny D, do you know where would access that list? Is is Online?   ::)

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