Martian Manhunter (2nd Series)

(DC, 2006–2007)
™ and © 2006 DC Comics, Inc.

The Martian Manhunter was arguably the first new hero of DC’s Silver Age. His first appearance in Detective Comics #225 predates the Silver Age Flash’s in Showcase #4 by almost a year. But in his fifty-plus years of existence, he has been treated as a second-class citizen of the DC Universe. He never caught on with audiences as well as the other heroes in DC’s stable did, and was relegated to back-up stories and a membership in the Justice League of America.

The character gets another shot at the limelight in this spin-off of DCU: Brave New World. It presents a new J’onn J’onzz. The character’s warmth and openness is replaced with an aloof detachment. It also opens the possibility that he is not the only Green Martian on Earth, that there are others. And their existence belies a nefarious conspiracy that places J’onn directly in the firing line.

— William Gatevackes

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