Robert "Robby" Reed, Chris King, Victoria "Vicki" Grant, Nelson Jent, Summer Pickens, Miguel Montez
Creative team
Written by
Original series: Dave Wood
Artist(s)
Original series: Jim Mooney
Dial H for Hero is a comic book feature published by DC Comics about a magical dial that enables an ordinary person to become a superhero for a short time, such as an hour, by selecting the letters H-E-R-O in order. Each time it is used, the dial causes its possessor to become a superhero with a different name, costume, and powers. These superheroes are usually new, but on one occasion the dial caused its user to become a duplicate of Plastic Man.[1] Some versions of the dial, like the original, contain additional letters, allowing other kinds of transformations.[2] The title of the series is a play on the title of the 1954 American crime mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock titled Dial M for Murder.
^House of Mystery #160 (July 1966)
^Jimenez, Phil (2008). "Dial "H" for Hero". In Dougall, Alastair (ed.). The DC Comics Encyclopedia. New York: Dorling Kindersley. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-7566-4119-1. OCLC 213309017.
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and the original protagonist of the long running comic book series DialHforHero. In the series, he is portrayed as a normal boy who transforms himself...
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The House of Mystery. This was followed with the introduction of "DialHforHero" in issue #156 (January 1966), which took over as headliner until issue...
conceived in a style deemed "too niche". Marv Wolfman had pitched a Dial "H" forHero TV show to Hanna-Barbera alongside the Teen Titans back in the 1980s...
continuity to a form much as it was prior to "The New 52". In the pages of DialHforHero, Devilance was seen with DeSaad, Kalibak, Tigra, Steppenwolf, and the...
become a sales success for DC. Wolfman would additionally write previews for a reboot of the "Dial 'H' forHero" feature and for Night Force a supernatural...
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bath sponge, campaigner for super-hero rights and fair pay. The character was originally created by DeStefano forDialHforHero. Marie the Psychic Turtle...
co-created a revival of the "DialHforHero" feature with writer Marv Wolfman in a special insert in Legion of Super-Heroes #272 (February 1981). He and...
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universe. Hero eventually lost his vest, but found the even more interesting "H-Dial" (of DialHforHero fame), and soon realized that by spelling H-E-R-O...
Starfire and Marvel's Shatterstar. DialH.U.S.K. (Paige Guthrie). An amalgamation of elements of DC's DialHforHero comics and Marvel's Husk (Paige Guthrie)...
Campbell, Wonder Twins by Mark Russell with art by Stephen Byrne, and DialHforHero, which was written by Sam Humphries and drawn by Joe Quinones. Additionally...
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similar to DialHForHero. The character's middle name, Kirby, was designed as a reference to comic book artist Jack Kirby. Initial concepts for Ben's Alien...
where he was defeated by Superboy. Dr. Quin (a villain from the first DialHforHero series) appears in House of Mystery #167 (June 1967) as a different...
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