Max O'Millions

Max O'Millions © Juke Box Productions AstroFacts Status: Unknown Earliest Appearance: 1959 Affiliation: Honor Guard (Founder) Base of Operations: Astro City Range of Operations: International Personal Data Height: x’x” Weight: xx lbs InfoDump Appearances (in Publication Order): Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.1 #2 Astro City: Local Heroes #4 Astro City: The Flip Book Astro City: Silver Agent #1 Event Timeline 1959     Dialog The Formation of Honor Guard. 1959/10/14     Current Honor Guard's First Big Clash with Pyramid. 1966     Flashback The Death of Supersonic in 1966. ??     Headline Max O'Millions Is Hospitalized. Max O'Millions Assumed to be a millionaire in private life, Max O'Millions is the founding architect and prime founder of the super-hero team known as Honor Guard. He had the insight and the desire to create an organization dedicated to defending humanity on a private level. Powers He has the ability to grow in volume. He uses his giant size to fight crime. Nothing has been told (yet) about how these powers came about, or how long he was active using them in direct conflicts. Observations There was an animation series featuring Max during the mid 1970s. Speculations, Theories Circa 1973, and wearing an updated costume, Max may have been involved in defending surface dwellers against Madame Majestrix's Invasion. Kurt Busiek has said that in the imaginary "Astro Comics" line he envisions the Astro City world coming from, Max O'Millions was created in-between the Golden and Silver Ages, during the period superheroes had fallen out of popularity. He had begun as a comic book character in a genre other than superheroes. When the Silver Age hit and made superheroes popular again, he was turned into a superhero. Until and unless there is more information forthcoming, the original comic book genre that this imaginary Max O'Millions likely sourced from is left open for comic book historians of all levels to speculate and debate. Based on a facial grimace made by Max, some readers speculate that there might be a bit of friction between him and the Silver Agent. This happened during their first encounter with Shirak. The argument could be that this is the result of their age differences, or a slight envy spawned by a power shift as Max gets shuffled to the background when the Silver Agent takes the spotlight and assumes a strong leadership role within Honor Guard. Putting the entire scene into context, other readers interpret that there isn't any friction in the dialog or the body language of the two characters. They are just practicing solid teamwork. But it is known that he likely couldn't have stood working with the Bouncing Beatnik for very long based upon the comments of Eliot Mills's friends at the Deadline. It would likely be based in the Beatnik's counter-culture image versus Max's seemingly more posh upper-crust society image. Footnotes