Ambush bug

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Ambush Bug (Eng. "Raubwanze") is the title of a series of humorous comic stories published by the US publisher DC Comics since 1982.

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At the center of the ambush bug stories, which approach the genre of American superhero comics in a benevolent parodic way, is a humanoid insect of the same name, which the author and illustrator Keith Giffen, together with his co-author Paul Kupperberg, for the first time in December 1982 Featured comic book DC Comics Presents # 52. The Ambush Bug Comics, which can be described as a mixture of fun comics, adventure comics and science fiction , target numerous "classics" of the superhero segment, including Superman , Spider-Man , Fantastic Four and Green Lantern . By breaking through the fourth wall , Ambush Bug - who mostly thinks and acts extremely "crazy" - is also aware of his own fictionality: Bug occasionally speaks to his readers, switches over to the "real" world and back into his fictional world and interacts with the makers of his comics such as the editor Julius Schwartz , who appears as a recurring figure within the Ambush Bug Comics.

Publications under the title Ambush Bug

After Ambush Bug was first used by Keith Giffen as a character in various Superman stories, the character became the focus of his own stories over time: Several backup stories published in the Action Comics series in the early 1980s are about his adventures which was later followed by two miniseries - Ambush Bug (1985) and Son of Ambush Bug (1986) - and a few specials - Ambush Bug Stocking Stuffer (1985) and The Ambush Bug Nothing Special (1992). Mostly Keith Giffen acted as author and draftsman, occasionally supported by Robert Loren Fleming as a scripter.

The Ambush Bug Comics were awarded several prizes: a mini-series received the Squiddy in the "Favorite Limited Series" category and the Nothing Special received the Squiddy Award as the "Favorite Graphic Novel" for 1992.

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Ambush Bug begins with a twisted reinterpretation of the history of the origin of Superman: As the Superman comics take their starting point that he was sent to earth as a child by his father Jor-El in a spaceship from his doomed home planet Krypton, Ambush Bug's history begins with that the bohemian extraterrestrial Brum-El (whose name alludes not only to Jor-El, but also the forefather of British dandy Beau Brummell ) from the planet Schwab - who is also about to be destroyed - his wardrobe (but not himself) in a spaceship that he sends to earth: he hopes, if not himself, to at least save his neat outfits from ruin.

After a gigantic radioactive spider attacks the spaceship on its way through space, only two items of clothing reach the earth: an ambush bug suit , which a man named Irwin Schwab finds, and an ominous item of clothing called Argh! Yle! , which is a neurotic sock with world conquest complexes that, similar to Doctor Doom , the arch enemy of the Fantastic Four, wears a metal face mask. After putting on the bow suit, Schwab is transformed into a six-foot-tall, green "skinned" insect man, and by wearing the suit - which he can no longer take off - he is given the gift of teleporting himself at will.

After Bug has first acted as a villain, he decides after his first encounter with Superman to emulate him and become a hero himself. Similar to Batman's Robin , Bug, whose trademark is his long orange insect antennae, finally gets a sidekick, a doll he calls "Cheeks, The Toy Wonder".

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