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Buddy Blank

Buddy Blank

27 appearances · Bronze Age · 1978–2021 · 2 key issues
Who is Buddy Blank?

Buddy Blank is the mild-mannered everyman secretly chosen by the orbiting artificial intelligence Brother Eye to become OMAC — the One Man Army Corps — a super-powered peacekeeping agent operating in a near-future world threatened by global instability and advanced technology.

Few characters carry the quiet weight of Buddy Blank — a Bronze Age DC creation whose story has woven itself through the publisher's mythology across more than four decades. Debuting in 1978 and touching down in landmark series like Countdown to Final Crisis and Countdown, Buddy shares pages with some of the most iconic names in comics: Green Lantern, The Flash, Superman, and Batman themselves. With two key-issue appearances flagging him as collector-significant, he's the kind of figure that rewards the curious reader who digs a little deeper into DC's layered universe. Twenty-seven catalog appearances spanning all the way to 2021 speak to a staying power that makes Buddy Blank well worth tracking down.

Comic Reader
#153
★ First appearance
Comic Reader #153
Feb 1978

Top series

Covers through the years — 1978–2019

Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth #59 1978
Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth #59
DC Comics Presents #61 1983
DC Comics Presents #61
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #17 1986
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #17
Bizarro Comics #[nn] 2001
Bizarro Comics #[nn]
Bizarro Comics #[nn] 2003
Bizarro Comics #[nn]
Countdown #6 2008
Countdown #6
Countdown to Final Crisis #4 2009
Countdown to Final Crisis #4
Solo: The Deluxe Edition #[nn] 2013
Solo: The Deluxe Edition #[nn]
Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium #1 2019
Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium #1

Appearances

52 (2006)
#4
Comic Reader (1973)
The Comics Journal (1977)
#41
Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth (1972)
#59
Cancelled Comic Cavalcade (1978)
#2
Warlord (1976)
DC Comics Presents (1978)
#61
The Best of DC (1979)
#50
Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe (1985)
Bizarro Comics (2001)
Solo (2004)
#3
Superman (1987)
Crisis Aftermath: The Battle for Blüdhaven (2006)
#4
The Brave and the Bold (2007)
#6
Countdown (2007)
Countdown to Final Crisis (2008)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2009)
#1
Solo: The Deluxe Edition (2013)
Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium (2019)
Bizarro Comics: The Deluxe Edition (2021)