do comic book use return from the dead thing

[Cicero]

The longest lasting death in comics was The Flash, Barry Allen, but they ruined that by bringing him back last year.

Nah, Bucky. He was dead since the Golden Age.

Sorry, Allyn, but that was a retcon introduced in 1963's Avengers #4.

Still, Bucky's death lasted longer than Allen's. It looks like Thomas and Martha Wayne have been dead the longest. Their murder was depicted in Detective Comics #33 (November, 1939), while Jor-L and Lora (later Jor-El and Lara) didn't appear until Superman #53 (August, 1948). A case can be made for the latter, though, since, not only had they appeared in unpublished material completed before Action Comics #1 (June, 1938), but baby Superman obviously had parents, and his departure from the exploding Krypton was shown in Action Comics #1.

 

[broberfett]

I haven't read the Cap being reborn story, but I understand he wasn't really dead just stuck in time or something. Doesn't that contradict one of the issues in the new Thor series where Thor crosses over to the afterlife to say goodbye to Captain America?

Thor drank way too much mead that night.

joking aside, I thought Marvel kept track of all those little interconnected story points.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Cap is more accurately is "unstuck" in time. The Red Skull tried to pluck Rogers out of the timestream, presumably to torment him for all time with the world believing that the Skull had murdered him, but Sharon Carter thwarted the plan before it could come to completion.

As for the Thor thing, I'm pretty sure they thought that one through as well. Thor asks him why his soul still lingered and hadn't moved on to Valhalla or somesuch and Cap said that he didn't know why. Now we know that the Skull dislodged him from the timestream and that he keeps raandomly jumping around to various times in his life.

 

[Mysterion]

The longest lasting death in comics was The Flash, Barry Allen, but they ruined that by bringing him back last year.

Is Iris still dead?

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

Mar-vell is still dead.
I don't think anyone wants to seriously (fake-outs aside) touch that one.

 

[Nerys Myk]

The longest lasting death in comics was The Flash, Barry Allen, but they ruined that by bringing him back last year.

Is Iris still dead?

She's been back from the dead for quite a while.

 

[Captain Craig]

The longest lasting death in comics was The Flash, Barry Allen, but they ruined that by bringing him back last year.

Ditto, ruined.
Had a good death streak going with Hal, ruined that also.

Any Flash or GL story told now could've been done with Wally or any of the other Earth GL's. Hal's presence NOT NEEDED. The EIC's have nearly ruined the medium for me this decade.

 

[Mr Light]

Was Hal ever dead? I thought he went from Crazy Evil Green Lantern to Parallax to the Spectre to Ressurected Good Green Lantern?

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Was Hal ever dead? I thought he went from Crazy Evil Green Lantern to Parallax to the Spectre to Resurrected Good Green Lantern?

He did, but in order to be the Spectre, you have to be dead, which is why the Spectre is called, you know, "the Spectre".