![]() They came up with a basic design for the character, including five starbursts on the chest of the character. In one of them, there was a character named Black Nova, who spun out of one of the stories that they were telling at the time (Wolfman and Wein would trade off issues during their series). In the late 1960s, Marv Wolfman and Len Wein were two young aspiring comic book creators who self-published their own comic books. When it comes to Daredevil costumes, we should always paraphrase Nuke from the classic Daredevil storyline, "Born Again" - "Gimme a red." The double-D had already been added before Wood changed the color, but the combination made for a striking costume that comic book artists always seem to eventually default to whenever Daredevil gets a costume change. ![]() He just made the costume red all over and it instantly made it an iconic look. When the great Wallace Wood took over the series early on, he came up with one of the most strikingly simple fixes of a costume in comic book history. Also, it was odd that he went with just a single D on his chest at first. The part that did not work was to mix yellow and reddish-brown for the color scheme of the outfit. For instance, the idea of the horns on the head so that he literally looks like a devil was a good idea. But really, Bill Everett's first pass for Daredevil's look really did have some good parts to it. Okay, let's be real, Daredevil's original costume was kind of garish. Other than the emblem, the only thing different from her classic look than in Peter's original design is that he had Wonder Woman wearing a skirt instead of short pants. In the early 1980s, DC Comics helped create a short-lived Wonder Woman charity, the logo of which was the double W's, which led to Wonder Woman adapting the "WW" on her chest emblem. This was 1941, when patriotic characters were a big hit in comics, so Wonder Woman definitely had a strong Star Spangled Banner take on her design. Harry George Peter was already 61 years old when he came up with the design for the new female superhero that William Marston was planning for All-American Comics, then called Suprema. Peter is perhaps not quite as egregious as that faced by other creators, but the simple fact that that guy who came up with Wonder Woman's costume cannot even get a "thanks" in the credits of Wonder Woman is a true shame. Heck, the late, great Len Wein got paid more money for creating Lucius Fox than he ever did for creating, you know, Wolverine. There have been many injustices in the world of comic books. Where does a costume stand, historically, within the medium itself? That is one of the most important questions that we address when we start our ranking of the best superhero costumes of all-time. As a result, we are heavily weighing in the cultural impact of the costume design when we rank them. It does not do you much good to have a really cool costume if no one knows who you are. Do note that we are working with at least one major caveat, that the superheroes in question have iconic costumes. Here, we will take a look at the very best of the best when it comes to superhero design. All of these previous ideals helped to influence the direction of superhero costumes in comic book history. Perhaps most notably, there was the over-the-top attire that circus performers wore in the many traveling shows of the early 20th century. There were the fantastical outfits that some of the characters in pulp fiction novels and adventure comic strips wore. ![]() There was the colorful armor that knights wore in the Middle Ages. ![]() There was a long history of costumes that predated them and influenced their creation. Like most things in this world, superhero costumes did not just pop into this world out of thin air. ![]()
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