Nova Prime Page

He's back. The Human Rocket. The Man called Nova. I am a big fan of Nova and his creator Marv Wolfman. Nova has not been treated too well by Marvel. Well they have tried to keep him in the comic buying public's eye. The first year his series came out he was a smash hit. Everybody I knew who bought comics was talking about Nova. However, for some reason year 2 faltered. Nova went from monthly publishing status to bi-monthly to gone. On occasion he did show up in other books like What If? or the Fantastic Four. But for the most part he was gone. Then came a book called the New Warriors and Nova was a member. It was no surprise to me that he became their most popular member. Again he was given his own title. Eventually both series were canceled. A few years later they tried again but with no luck. Perhaps they should get his dear old Dad Marv Wolfman to write it again. He seemed to be pretty good at it. I have read on this page that Marvel is trying again in 2006. Mr. Wolfman created the character in a fanzine in 1966. The fanzine was Super Adventures and he was first called the Star then changed to Black Nova and finally just Nova. I have heard that because of this Mr. Wolfman owns the rights to Nova. Perhaps that is why there was no merchandising of the character back in the 70's. I would loved to have a t-shirt or sweatshirt with Nova on it. Actually I do have a sweatshirt of Nova. Thanks to computers I was able to take the character off the cover of issue #1 and make an iron on transfer out of it. It has been washed so many times that it now really looks like I have had it since 1976. If you want to look at the great site that tells you everything about Nova then click on the title of this article and it
will take you there.