Willow, and not the Buffy kind: Weve talked about homages and cross-company faux team-ups that edge toward copyright infringement, but what about a creator taking a character with him as he changed companies, veiled only by a slight name alteration? A character named Willow made her first appearance in Justice League of America #142, May 1977 in a story drawn by Dick Dillin & Steve Englehart. She was a being with powers & abilities that included martial arts, telepathic communication, empathy, plant manipulation, astral projection and an accelerated healing factor. Asked where she came from, Willow replies, This one has come from a place she must not name, to reach a place no man must know. After two issues, she leaves to go give birth. An interesting small role in a team book, until one notices that Willow refers to herself as this one. And that Steve Englehart had been writing Mantis the Celestial Madonna in Avengers at Marvel just prior to this, a character sharing...well, pretty much all the above details. And that he then left DC for Eclipse Comics and the series Scorpio Rose #2 where a character named Lorelei, with all the above details intact, has given birth to a son. In DC, though, Willow only lasted for two appearances.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:34:01 +0000
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