By the time bounty-hunter Paladin appeared in Daredevil #150 in 1978, I don't know that kids would've recognized the name from the old western TV show Have Gun--Will Travel, even though it ran for like six seasons and 225 episodes or so. I only started watching it recently, in reruns in the morning. It's kind of refreshing: a lot of shows lately have season-long arcs, on this one the bad guy is usually shot up inside of 22 minutes. Anyway, Marvel-Paladin wishes he was as cool as TV Paladin: I remember his appearances in Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America, both of which he was only successful because the hero had to be set back. A couple years back, we saw him get his legs broke by U.S.Agent in Punisher: No Escape.
I'll confess to having mixed feelings about him, as I think his costume (not the one he got a figure of, because that one SUCKS) is pretty cool, but the guy inside...meh.
ReplyDeleteCool points for including Batroc randomly as fuck into this one.
Extra Cool points for showing off his lethal leaping foot work.
Even though he made an appearance in a Cap movie, it wasn't the version of Batroc we really wanted :(