Superman Analogue: Jemm, Son of Saturn
50Sometimes for editorial reasons, writers are forced to file off the serial numbers from a character. Sometimes it creates a great new character, like Jemm, Son of Saturn!
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Original Text: Speaking of the Martian Manhunter's past diasporas, in the 70s/80s there was a period where he was shunted aside. But work had begun on a solo series for him at that point that was far enough into production they had to scrape off the serial numbers, creating Jemm Son of Saturn
Jemm had the big ticket powers of Martian Manhunter, but lost shapeshifting. However this still easily puts him in the range that can go to to toe with Superman.
His book was meant to be a sort of decompressed origin story of J'onzz, but now with the location changed to Saturn. Due to the legacy similarities, writers later found a way for Saturnians to be relatives of Martians.
I discovered the character when Grant Morrison used him in JLA and then Ostrander connected him to J'onn in his Martian Manhunter book. However, I'll be honest that I never read his solo series.
Most of what I know comes from his "Who's Who" article and select modern appearances.
And DC is flush with #supermananalogues, so he doesn't get much spotlight, but in a world where there were fewer character is capable of moving planets, he would be a heavy hitter.
In doing my image search, I see that there is an archive printing of Jemm's series. I may be picking that up soon.
And while I dropped the ball and did a Martian on a Friday, I'm glad I got to do a Saturnian on a Saturday. Given the love of characters being tied to the Sun, I'm sure I'll think of someone good for tomorrow too.
Oh, I'd like to remind everyone that I'd rather this be a conversation. I don't know a ton about Jemm and would love if people wanted to share their coolest stories about him.
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Images:
1 - Jemm, Son of Saturn Vol 1 #1, Cover by Gene Colan and Klaus Janson
2 - Not sure about this one. The larger picture has Donna Troy, leading me to think it was around Infinite Crisis, but not sure where.
3 - Jemm, Son of Saturn Vol 1 #4, Cover by Gene Colan and Klaus Janson
4 - Jemm, Son of Saturn Vol 1 #6, Cover by Klaus Janson
5 - Martian Manhunter Vol 2 #13, Cover by Tom Mandrake
6 - Martian Manhunter Vol 2 #4, Cover by Tom Mandrake
7 - JLA #11, Art by Howard Porter.
8 - Martian Manhunter Vol 2 #4, Art by Tom Mandrake
9 - Who's Who Entry, Art by Gene Colan
10 - Not sure which issue, but from the original Jemm series, Art by Gene Colan
11 - Martian Manhunter Vol 2 #16, Art by Tom Mandrake
12 - Jemm Collected Edition, Cover by Gene Colan
13 - Still from Supergirl (2015) episode "Human for a Day", portrayed by Charles Halford.
14 - Jemm, Son of Saturn Vol 1 #12, Cover by Gene Colan
15 - Superman: World of New Krypton #9, Art by Gary Frank and Brad Anderson
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