HOPE YOU LIKE IT: The ART of DAKOTA ALEXANDER…
By DAKOTA ALEXANDER
Superheroes, especially Marvel and DC legacy characters, will always maintain the trend of the costume change. As the decades pass by, it is often thought that these long-standing heroes will be in need of an update to keep up with the ever-changing times.
Russell Dauterman
And while some of these updates are often modest alterations made to an iconic look, such as Batman, you also have heroes whose costume changes are much bolder, like Spider-Man’s black symbiote suit.
And then you have Wonder Man, a character who, from his first appearance in The Avengers #9 in 1964 to the mid-’90s, had one of the most widely varied array of costumes I can think of (except for the Wasp, of course).
Everyone has their favorite, but in this case we’re going to go with the classic green!
Jack Kirby pencils, Chic Stone inks
Like with so many of the imaginary covers I draw, it’s fun to really dig into the character’s history to pinpoint iconic elements to further explore. Here, I decided to revisit the infamous Grim Reaper, Wonder Man’s brother! For fun, I decided to include some floating Avengers heads, and I even made a mock ad for the series.
Hope you like it.
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— SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY — If the Movie Poster Were Based on a Bronze Age Cover. Click here.
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DAKOTA ALEXANDER is an American artist living in Japan. He’s worked on many projects, such as The Liberty Brigade, The Masters, Charon 13, and G.H.O.S.T. Agents. His latest is his love letter to Bronze Age superhero-horror comics, The Hunter, which is now available at his Etsy, Drums of the Serpent.
August 20, 2026
I’ve always liked the red safari jacket because it is different. Kind of like DC’s Sandman with the green suit.
August 20, 2026
Great job on the mock up cover and ad, Wondermam has always been a personal fave. His 3 earliest costumes (Avengers 9 original green, Avengers 161 modified green, Avengers 167 red safari jacket), have always been classic faves…❤️
August 20, 2026
Marvel’s Wonder Man introduced in Avengers #9 looks suspiciously like the Wonder Man published in Mystery Comics and Wonder Comics by Pines in the 1940’s, right down to the green uniform and red ‘W’. His appearance in The Avengers comes just a few months after Stan Lee plucked the apparently now public domain name of Lev Gleason’s Daredevil for Marvel’s own new Man Without Fear. Could Stan have done the same for Wonder Man? Quite likely since he had already revived the Sub-Mariner, and would soon bring back Ka-Zar and The Vision (although the latter was more likely Roy Thomas’ doing).
August 20, 2026
Very 70’s Marvel Buckler/Buscema-esque cover!
August 21, 2026
Remember that classic comedy issue of “What If?” from around 1982? The one panel: “What If Wonder Man was a woman and Power Man was a girl?” Right under the female versions of the Marvel heroes was the pinned note saying “Our lawyers advise you not to do this gag…” Hilarious!