After Thirty Years, We Get To Meet Demolition Man's Boyfriend

Marvel Comics' character Demolition Man goes back over thirty years.

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D-Man was created in 1985 by DC's current Creative Director of Animation at DC Comics Mike Carlin and Ron Wilson for The Thing comic book. Dennis Dunphy was a college football player who was turned into a superhuman by the Power Broker to compete in the Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation where he called himself Demolition Dunphy.

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Later he would ally with Captain America as D-Man or Demolition Man, before joining the Avengers and getting seriously injured in conflict. He has since knocked around the Marvel Universe, siding with superheroes here, become a pawn of the Grandmaster there, and there, turned into a new Scourge, shot by Sharon Carter, before being revived by demonic ritual.

After Secret Wars, he became a pilot for Captain America, and bought battle armour to look cooler. But in all this time he has revealed little about himself.

That might change in next week's Captain America: Sam Wilson #15. Which, not only brings back Unlimited Wrestling, and puts Dennis Dunphy on the front cover…

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…but goes backstage as Dennis Dunphy prepares for the show.

capa2015015-int-lr2-5Ah yes, Hostess Fruit Pies. Member? Well, D-Man always been an affectionate fellow.

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As for his name, I am reliably informed that "the youth of today have taken to calling dick just "the D" so D-Man would mean…

Yeah, okay, let's leave that there.

Captain America: Sam Wilson #15 is published next Wednesday from Marvel Comics, by Nick Spencer and Angel Unzueta.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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