Memoryman

    (David Markoff, 1991)
™ and ©1991 David Markoff

David Markoff makes his living as a self-proclaimed memory expert, appearing on the lecture and talk show circuit, selling his Creative Ability System for improving memory. Typical of his memory feats are memorizing the names of audience members and reciting fifty-digit numbers forward and backward.

With this self-published title, Markoff makes his way into comics. Memoryman was first printed in 1991, and later was given away as an ashcan promotional edition at the 1995 San Diego Comicon. In the story, a character called Memoryman (patterned after Markoff) takes on evil using an anti-grav suit and his own memory abilities. The rather disjointed four-page ashcan was accompanied by a story script which laid out Memoryman’s origin. In that story, an orphaned boy was shown a magical book of memory by the goddess Mnemosene, and had to learn to use his new powers for good rather than self-promotion.
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