Gerard Jones and Jeff Johnson's run? I did read Gerard Jones had... underaged pics? Did jail time?
Btw, who decided that Simon would be a movie star? Like, I only knew of him at the start of the 90s series and I didn't realize he was a scientist beforehand. What prompted a former scientist to be a movie star?
Like, his thought process? Did he think he was a brilliant actor because he fooled the Avengers into thinking he was a good guy initially? I'm assuming he was friends with Beast because both are scientists (did Beast jokingly convince him to be an actor?).
Who was the writer during that time and turned Wonder Man that way?
Yeah, Gerard Jones was sent to jail for possession of a large amount of child pornography. Marvel's probably unlikely to collect that run for that reason, D+ show or not.
Simon wasn't ever called a scientist really. He was called an "Inventor" and portrayed as a rival industrialist to Tony. Tony's superior patents made his worthless and his company failed so he embezzled from his own company to try to stay out of bankruptcy. He was caught and blamed Stark. He was going to trial for that when Zemo and co. recruited him.
I have a Marvel Unlimited subscription so I looked through all the early back issues of his history this morning. He was revived in Avengers #153 in 1976. He hung around with the team consistently for the next 3 years of the book. Just trying to figure out his resurrection and being a hero.
The acting thing comes in Avengers #181 in 1979. It's a big "shake-up the team roster" issue by David Michelinie. The team had acquired a larger number of members and hangers on over previous stories and this issue uses Gyrich demanding a streamlined government sanctioned team to write most of them out of the book.
The issue opens with Wondy and Beast taking in a movie (Robin Hood). Wonder Man wonders why folks are so into escaping into Movies and idolizing Movie stars and he and Beast discuss it as something folks need to make their lives more enjoyable and exciting. Later in the issue when Gyrich cuts him from the team Wonder Man decides to follow up on that thought by trying to be an actor. Saying that if he can get comfortable playing roles on stage maybe it would make him more comfortable playing the role of a super hero. And then he's out of the book.
The next Avengers issue he shows up in was the next year in 1980, and he mentions he was apparently in a show on Broadway that was panned for being slow and boring so was trying out for a role on a TV show instead. Being the "Superhero who is trying to be an Actor" has been his deal ever since.
-ZacWilliam, I don't think his being an Inventor is mentioned much ever, nor has what exactly he invented that Tony Stark outdid really come up, in the original stories or since.
