Number 2229: That’s Amazing, Man!

Amazing-Man was really John Aman, but he didn’t hide his identity. He was raised in Tibet and given special training to become Amazing-Man...but so was his longtime adversary, a guy with the name The Great Question. I like that name. I don’t like The Great Question’s costume, which appears to be from the Ku Klux Klan katalog. Bill Everett, who later became one of the top comic artists, created Amazing-Man. And that was before he created the character he is best known for, the Sub-Mariner.

Unfortunately, this episode of Amazing-Man is not by Bill Everett. It is by another question, because Grand Comics Database has no idea who did the script or artwork for this story. It was from Centaur, which has the distinction of being the first of the comic book companies formed in the very early days of comic books to go out of business. For what it’s worth, I like the look of the monsters the Great Question sends to do his dirty work. They look like giant rodents with elephant trunks.

This monstrous business is from Stars and Stripes #2 (1941).

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