Significant Anagram/Comic Books

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Examples of Significant Anagrams in Comic Books include:

  • In Preacher, the protagonist's name, Jesse Custer, is an anagram of "Secret Jesus." And his initials are JC, so that shouldn't be a surprise.
  • A Distant Soil features the giant starship Siovansin - which happens to be an anagram of "invasions".
  • Early The Tick comics has the Tick's Sidekick visiting a psychiatrist by the name of Dr. Footcey. The Tick would inadvertently figure out he was the totally disguised toy De Force villain probing the sidekick for Tick's weakness.
  • In the Elseworlds storyline Generations an elderly Lois is being treated by a Dr. Holurt who turns out to be Luthor.
  • The Legion of Super-Heroes once battled a robot called Urthlo, who turned out to have been sent to the future by Luthor. And, in the Silver Age, Luthor's family changed their name to Thorul to avoid association with him.
  • In an Avengers story, the 'new' American Defense Secretary, a highly sensitive position, is Dell Rusk. Juggling the letters in the name reveals 'Red Skull', an infamous Nazi super-criminal. Oops.
  • In Strangers in Paradise, the Packard-Yerr corporation is secretly run by Darcy Parker.
  • In the Blake and Mortimer book The Voronov Plot, Olrik becomes a Captain in the Soviet Army under the name "Ilkor"
  • Pajan, the fantasy version of Japan in Okko.
  • Possibly Reka and Aker's names in The Secret History. No reason has been shown as yet.[when?]