The Fly is a fictional comic book superhero published by Red Circle Comics. He was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby as part of Archie's "Archie Adventure Series" and later camped up as part of the company's Mighty Comics line. He first appeared in The Double Life of Private Strong #1 however his origin story and first "full length" appearance were in Adventures of the Fly #1 (Aug. 1959).
In the first four issues of Adventures of the Fly, after Simon and Kirby left the title, others took on the character and made him an adult lawyer who fought crime in Capital City. He was later partnered with Fly Girl.
Adventures of The Fly was cancelled with issue #30 (Oct. 1964). The Fly also appeared in short stories in some of Archie's other titles (Pep #151, 154, 160 and Laugh #128, 129, 132, 134, 137-139) between October 1961 and January 1963. His own series was restarted as Fly-Man as part of the "Mighty Comics Group", which ran from issues #31-39 (May 1965 - Sept. 1966). The title changed again to "Mighty Comics" which featured all various Archie super-heroes for #40-50 before finally fading away for a few years.
Under the Red Circle Comics imprint, The Fly was published, running from issue #1 (May 1983) to #9 (October 1984). The stories in this series were more similar to the previous stories in Adventures of The Fly and co-starred Fly Girl. With issue #5, Steve Ditko both wrote and drew the stories, which portrayed Tommy Troy being framed and discredited. Ditko left the series after issue #8, and another writer wrapped up the storyline in #9, which cleared Troy from any guilt.
The Fly was one of the characters used in DC Comics' revamp of the Archie characters in DC's !mpact comics line. This series, also called The Fly, ran 17 issues (Aug. 1991 - Dec. 1992) and portrayed the Fly as a boy (named Jason Troy) who turned into an adult superhero, similar to the original version of the character.
Archie Comics reprinted the first four issues in a trade paperback collection under the company's Red Circle imprint.
Archie adventure comics
Adventures of the Fly
# 1-10 download
#11-20 download
#21- 31 download
Mighty comics
Fly Man
# 32-39 download
Note mighty started w/31 i bundled wrong.
Impact series here: The Fly,
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4 comments:
What a great collection, Zen. Fantastic!
Nice batch here, Zen. I got really confused because I read the Ditko credits in that article, and eagerly DLed 1-10. I kept looking through them saying this is the worst inking job Ditko has ever had. It doesn't even look like him. Then careful re-reading of the article told me that it was the 1980s series. Doh! I had some of those ones, maybe still do.
mi now on the hunt for those red circles.. tough ones to find it seems
Cool. Try using Archie Adventure Series also as the publisher.
http://www.comics.org/series/2733/
Steranko drew the first cover!
I met an Archie employee a few years after this and he wanted to do a whole superhero line, with new characters and gritty art from some fan favorites. I saw some photocopies of already finished stories.
The owners had trouble fitting it into their mindset for Archie comics. The employee told me that every name for the new line he came up with the head honcho thought was a sexual reference!
I remember Matinee being one of the names, the employee thinking of old serials and bargain showings of newer action movies and the head honcho thinking it meant an afternoon quickie.
I don't remember anyone's name but I remember his title and "employee" is used to protect him for telling tales out of school. Though I doubt he's still there.
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