Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man

Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man
Mr. Hero
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Mr. Hero
Ted Slampyak
Publication information
Publisher Tekno Comix
First appearance Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero, The Newmatic Man #1
(March 1995)
Created by Neil Gaiman
In-story information
Alter ego Primus
Place of origin Kalighoul

Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man is a comic book published by Tekno Comix from March, 1995 to June, 1996. The original character concept was created by Neil Gaiman, but the title was written by James Vance and penciled mostly by Ted Slampyak.

Back story

Mr. Hero is a steam-driven automaton created by the villainous Henry Phage. Intended to be a force of evil, he instead proves noble.

Henry Phage created Mr. Hero as a sleeper agent to send to Earth until such a time as he wished to conquer Earth. He was discovered in the 1800s by a farmer, who later sold him to a magician. The magician trained Mr. Hero to box and used him as a prop in his act. Using Mr. Hero's second head (the "Ratiocinator"), Mr. Hero would give advice to the audience. Then, his less rational but more physically able head would be fitted to his body and he would engage in Queensbury Rules boxing with a member of the audience.

During the boxing, a member of the audience would be challenged to knock out Mr. Hero, while he would not attack. However, at one event he mysteriously lost control of his left hand, and inadvertently attacked an influential participant. This ended his career in shame, and he was crated and put into storage.

In the mid-1990s he was discovered and reconstructed by Jennifer Hale, a struggling street magician.

Publication history

Mr. Hero, the Newmatic Man was originally published by Tekno Comix under the header Neil Gaiman's Mr. Hero, The Newmatic Man. It enjoyed an 18-issue run. Its first 17 issues were published under the logo "Tekno Comix" and were appropriately numbered 1-17. The 18th issue carried the logo "Big Entertainment". Also, the 18th issue was intended to start volume 2 of the title, and so was numbered "Volume 2, No. 1". The title was then placed on hiatus until Big Entertainment ceased its publication of comic books.

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