Rich was first an insecure teenager who inherited the mantle of an intergalactic Nova Centurion, became part of the Nova Corps (an intergalactic police force) and later of the New Warriors. Though, Richard Rider was not as smart as Peter Parker, far from it, and was more of an average student They clearly wanted to create a new character with the same essence, with his working-class origins, his tendency to banter in battle, and his inferiority complex. It also has to be said that Richard ‘Rich’ Rider was intended as an homage to Spider-Man (with some elements of Green Lantern). revamped the character, with some changes to the costume and a new origin story to create Nova. There were differences alright, but no doubt that, years later, Marv Wolfman and John Romita Jr. Black Nova’s life was short as he died in Super Adventures #9.īlack Nova was an adult wearing a black and yellow costume with 5 chest stars and a helmet antenna. Three issues later, Wolfman and Len Wein reinvented the Star into a new hero, now a prisoner named Kraken Roo who becomes the superhero Black Nova. He was a doctor who found a spaceship containing alien pills giving him a different superpower every five minutes. If Nova made his first appearance in The Man Called Nova #1 (September 1976), the character originated ten years earlier by Marv Wolfman in issue #3 of his fanzine, Super Adventures.Īt first, he was known as The Star, real name Denteen.
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