I actually did as well, even though my first introduction to him was in Who's Who Update 88 which does list his first appearance in Flash Comics #66. He only made two golden age appearances, once in 1945 and once in 1947, but he joins Dyna-Mite as the only other actual Golden Age character in the main roster. (I suppose Tigress could also be included, although they don't make it particularly clear whether or not she's the eventual JSA villain Huntress here despite the costume.)
"Jones made some reprehensible life choices that have forever tarnished his reputation...."
His non-fiction books, particularly "Honey, I'm Home" and "Men Of Tomorrow", have been extremely helpful to me. What happened?
"They are diving deep into the well of “Wold-Newton” storytelling where literary characters are connected into a shared universe." This, of course, was the doing of the late great SF writer Philip Jose Farmer, whose catalog is full of stories and novels of revisionist fictional history like this. I am a great admirer of that fiction and it has strongly influenced me.
Jones was once one of my favorite comic book writers and I do consider Men of Tomorrow a well-written and amazingly researched book. I'm trying not to cover Jones' crimes here, as I would like to separate his very good work from this era from the crimes that he's most known for in the last decade (for which he has served out his sentence), but you can find the information on his Wikipedia entry.
I had no idea Neptune Perkins was that old as a character! I just assumed he'd been invented in the 80s for the Young All-Stars book!
I actually did as well, even though my first introduction to him was in Who's Who Update 88 which does list his first appearance in Flash Comics #66. He only made two golden age appearances, once in 1945 and once in 1947, but he joins Dyna-Mite as the only other actual Golden Age character in the main roster. (I suppose Tigress could also be included, although they don't make it particularly clear whether or not she's the eventual JSA villain Huntress here despite the costume.)
I think that same Update 88 was where I first learned about Perkins -- really, about all the Young All-Stars.
"Jones made some reprehensible life choices that have forever tarnished his reputation...."
His non-fiction books, particularly "Honey, I'm Home" and "Men Of Tomorrow", have been extremely helpful to me. What happened?
"They are diving deep into the well of “Wold-Newton” storytelling where literary characters are connected into a shared universe." This, of course, was the doing of the late great SF writer Philip Jose Farmer, whose catalog is full of stories and novels of revisionist fictional history like this. I am a great admirer of that fiction and it has strongly influenced me.
Jones was once one of my favorite comic book writers and I do consider Men of Tomorrow a well-written and amazingly researched book. I'm trying not to cover Jones' crimes here, as I would like to separate his very good work from this era from the crimes that he's most known for in the last decade (for which he has served out his sentence), but you can find the information on his Wikipedia entry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Jones