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Just n’ Right is perhaps my favourite forgotten Golden Age super-hero, or at least the one I’ve thought about the most. I’m not sure I can adequately explain why but since he only ever appeared in a single six-page story I can at least present the entire thing to you and note the things that prey on my mind in the wee hours.<\/p>\n
So: the setup. Justin Wright is a lumberjack and an orphan who has just come of age and inherited his parents’ monies. Please note that he is such <\/i>an orphan that he can’t even conceive of having parents. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It’s the old Batman-style “crime orphan vows revenge on crime” origin, only this time it’s an adult man rather than a child making the vow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And in keeping with the Batman-style origin, Justin takes inspiration from a totemic object: sheer fabric, which he had evidently neither encountered nor conceptualized in his former life as a simple lumberjack.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Two things to point out on this page: 1. here’s where it’s revealed that Justin Wright has chosen Just n’ Right as his vigilante name, which is about as extreme as nominative determinism ever gets in comics, I reckon. Take a seat, Edward Nygma.<\/p>\n 2. the ‘Wayne Reid’ credit on the first page is a nom de plume<\/i> for George E. Brenner, who did a fair amount of work for Quality Comics. I’m generally a fan but this is the perfect page to complain about how many people in his comics have these gaping toothless maws that I can’t look away from.<\/p>\n Also the “frame Just n’ Right for murder” plot never pays off.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a><\/div>\n