Billy Batson refers to Miguel Montez as Ben 10 too often...
They're both fans of the show, especially Billy, but still, he calls Miguel that A LOT
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I love, love, LOVE the way that Dial H as a concept used to be run. Letting kids from all around the country send in their ideas for heroes and villains and then getting cited in the comics.
I’m sure there’s some logistical issue that means it’s not feasible now but goddammit I want it to be!
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H-Dialer Miguel Montez, mid-transformation, preparing for battle in the realm of the Telephone Avatar.
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Magneto? Where have I heard that before?
Oh yeah! They used to have them in cars.
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House of Mystery #169 September 1967 cover by Jim Mooney
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I know I'm usually the one people come to for help with these sort of questions, but I am coming up blank.
Does anyone out there in the ether know when Tim used the H-Dial?
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If this is not a one panel explanation for the conversations we need to be having about the difference between how superheroes are designed vs how superheroines are designed...
I mean really, look at what that woman is wearing compared to the male counterpart!
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☕️+Dial H for Hero
Don’t know anything about that one, unfortunately. I’m a novice when it comes to most dc stuff outside of a few early Vertigo titles. The premise seems interesting, is there any specific run you’d recommend?
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What’s your version of the H-dial like?
So in the headverse, all superhumans are ultimately derived from Ultra the Hunter and his emanation, Ahl. When Perpetua realized Ultra—and by extension their children Alpheus, Mobius, and Novius—were a figment of her imagination brought to life by her power as the god of narrative, the effect of Ultra’s return to non-existence created a pocket dimension of raw “identity” or soul-suits: The Heroverse. H-Dials are all direct taps into the H-Verse, with different colors for different effects and dominions within the H-Verse (sidekicks, technology, etc).
H-Dials predate the multiverse itself, existing as far back as the Garden of Eternity (The Rock of Eternity’s original state, sometimes called Final Heaven) and originally were closer to scrying stones and sundials before settling into modern rotary dial form, though by their nature the rotary h-dials anachronistically appear in the ancient past and may have inspired the objects they imitate.
The characters themselves have more of an It/Stranger Things dynamic with each other and the dial. Robbie, Susie, Nelson, Chris, and Vicki were all childhood friends in this version and end up bound into adulthood by Robbie’s disappearance into the H-Verse and his split into a variety of competing identities. Manteau, Open Window Man, and Miguel and Summer join up in the modern day as Robbie’s actions across his various selves starts to threaten the cohesion of reality itself.
The Thorul Society (Lionel Luthor’s weird post humanist supremacy cult) wants a dial to use Ultra’s echoes within the H-Verse to control Perpetua after they free her from [redacted] and begin replacing humanity with White Martian-Human Hybrids, starting with Lex and the Hyperclan’s PR campaign.
Robbie’s pretty close to canon, but he’s a lonelier, angrier kid at the beginning and a lot of his impetus to escape into the H-Verse is a desire to feel the power of the Dial all the time. Susie is trans here and the de facto leader even before Robbie vanishes. Nelson grew up with them but lost touch over the years and has to be dragged back into things by Manteau and the reappearance of Captain Lachrymose as an independent villain. Lachrymose is a Kryptonian or offshoot species who gave himself over to the King of Tears and acts as one of the Knights of Sorrow, who also want Ultra for unknown reasons. Chris and Vicki I haven’t developed much yet tbh, but I might gender flip Chris if the mood strikes me.
They’re also tied into the Telephone Demon stuff with the Doom Patrol and an OC villain, The Bandwidth Banshee, but that’s a whole thing.
One tidbit that may or may not come up is that, like Time Spheres, a sufficiently capable Lantern could construct a functional H-Dial, though what a G(reen)-Dial actually does would have to be tested to be discovered
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