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  • Cosmicman
    Permanent Member
    • Jul 12, 2005
    • 4794

    Paul Kirk: Manhunter

    Hey all! I have been busy working with my job and the band but still able to pop in here to show off my latest gem.
    The suit was created by Brian Leitner and the head sculpt is my design based around a POTA Burke head.
    The Katar is my design also. I have been making tons of little weapons.

    I have always had a fascination with this character. I used to read my Uncle's Batman books when I was a kid. I thought Manhunter was a supreme DC character and never understood why they never "Brought him back." He was classic.

    In case some of you who don't know who Paul Kirk Manhunter is or was...
    Many years later, in 1973, the names of Manhunter and Paul Kirk were resurrected in a story by Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson. Simonson noted that:
    Kirk carried and used primarily three weapons: a Bolo Mauser, a Katar (कटार), and two shuriken "throwing stars". These are carried by Kirk as part of his costume, on the chest. Said Simonson of his costume design, "I did a bunch of preliminary designs and I think Archie thought my first costume was a little complex, but then I did a bunch of variations. They were just simpler and not as a good, so we went with the original design. The only difference was originally I’d given him nine throwing stars. Archie wanted to include martial arts in the strip and I came across something that said nine was a mystical number in some of the martial arts cultures. But somewhere along the way I realized that drawing nine throwing stars in every damn panel was going to be a big problem. So we fixed that!"

    Paul Kirk had been killed by an elephant on safari in the 1940s, but his body had been cryogenically preserved and eventually resurrected by the Council, a secret society dedicated to controlling the world. After his return from death, Kirk was given a healing factor devised by a geneticist-member of the Council (it was later retconned that the healing factor was due to nanobots injected into him[volume & issue needed]) and was trained extensively in the martial arts by Asano Nitobe. He was also the genetic source for many clones, which the Council intended to use as their paramilitary arm, with the original Paul Kirk as their leader.

    The Council underestimated Kirk's morals, though, and when he was assigned to kill an Interpol official, he instead attempted to warn him. Unfortunately, this was but a test; the man was actually a Council agent, and Kirk barely escaped from a group of clones waiting there should he not perform according to expectations. Realizing Kirk couldn't be their assassin, the Council ordered him terminated.

    Manhunter defeated the Council, deliberately sacrificing his life to do so. Interpol agent Christine St. Clair and Nitobe believed that all the clones were dead, but swore to kill any they found in the future.

    The 1970s Paul Kirk/Manhunter stories appeared primarily as 8-page backups in Batman's Detective Comics, at the time going through an incarnation as a "100-Page Super Spectacular" featuring mostly reprints of non-Batman stories. Only with the last episode of the series did Manhunter move to the front of the book, in a full-length team-up with Batman. The stories were all written by Goodwin, and were the breakout work for future fan favorite artist Simonson. Goodwin's work on Manhunter, in which he both updated an obscure Golden Age hero, and, in the series' last episode, took the daring approach of killing him off (one of the few comic book deaths that has actually "taken" and not been reversed or retconned away in the decades since it occurred) is very well-regarded by both fans and other comics professionals.








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  • Alberto Malnati
    low tech animal
    • Nov 30, 2002
    • 1902

    #2
    suuuuuper ccoool Cat..very nice, love the details and the body suit.
    one of your bests ever!
    BIRD LIVES!!!
    ciao Al

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    • Meule
      Verbose Member
      • Nov 14, 2004
      • 28720

      #3
      Love the suit and those boots look cool too
      "...The agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair..." - Edgar Allan Poe

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      • REMOVED
        • Jul 20, 2025
        • 0

        #4
        mm . Nice duds and wicked booties.

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        • QDOGG
          Persistent Member
          • Jan 13, 2007
          • 1115

          #5
          Great job Cat. The head works real well, and Brian's outfits are always killer.

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          • Cmonster
            Banned
            • Feb 6, 2010
            • 1877

            #6
            LOVE those boots.

            SC

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