The Costume So Bad That They Had To Write Its Awfulness Into the Comic

Here is the quote from the interview that I found fascinating:

The one thing that really surprised me was the new costume Mark Gruenwald and I created for Wonder Man. I considered him, and I know he considered me, to have a pretty good handle on what made good comics, and we both liked the costume a lot. But apparently we were pretty much the only ones.

Oooh…boy, yeah.

Wait until you see some of the responses!

The comic book blog, The Peerless Power of Comics, collected some of the letter column responses to the costume so that I wouldn’t have to. Check them out:

“I have to tell you that I found Wonder Man’s new costume so visually repugnant that it vastly decreased my enjoyment of the entire issue. It looks like an Adam Strange reject. Realize you made a mistake and correct it soon.”

“I just had to write and tell you a terrible nightmare I had. Seems that Wonder Man somehow lost his goggles, and his hair changed color… then all of a sudden all hell broke loose. He was parading around in a costume that looked like the Vision’s put through a blender.”

“Wonder Man’s costume looks like Alicia Masters found some scrap material and made a costume out of it with Daredevil’s help.”

“Wonder Man’s costume is the worst yet.”

“We the undersigned, believe that the costume now worn by Wonder Man is the greatest example of bad taste that has ever poxed the printed page. … Please send the current costume to a Salvation Army thrift store, where it can be displayed as a second rate, hackneyed, tasteless example of pseudo-stylish men’s wear.” (signed by 18 people from Columbus, OH)

“…he is beginning to look like a walking Christmas tree!”

The reaction was so bad that Englehart decided to reverse the costume as soon as possible. The problem was that the West Coast Avengers were stuck in a nearly year-long storyline that had them stuck in time and space, so they were stuck with the costume for a full YEAR before they could theoretically address the look.

How they did so was hilarious.

Page 3: How they got rid of the costume
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