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[[File:Shade_the_Changing_Man_60_Cover_2394.jpg|frame|Shade in his armor on the cover of issue 60.]]
{{quote|"At this point I started to lie. And as I lied, I realized I might be telling the truth. This often happens to me."
|Shade, ''The Passion Child''}}
Originally a short-lived series created by [[Steve Ditko]], Shade ran for 8 issues (June, 1977-September, 1978) before its sudden cancellation. The protagonist later turned up in the ''[[Suicide Squad]]'', where he was a regular cast member from issue #16 to #37 (August, 1988-January, 1990). Like many other [[Silver Age]] heroes he then got a thorough [[Continuity Reboot]] under [[The DCU|DC]]'s ''Vertigo'' imprint; the alien fugitive with a technological gizmo was replaced by a soulful poet from a parallel world who could [[Reality Warper|warp reality]].▼
▲{{quote|"At this point I started to lie. And as I lied, I realized I might be telling the truth. This often happens to me."|Shade, ''The Passion Child''}}
▲Originally a short-lived series created by [[Steve Ditko]], Shade ran for 8 issues (June, 1977-September, 1978) before its sudden cancellation. The protagonist later turned up in the [[Suicide Squad]], where he was a regular cast member from issue #16 to #37 (August, 1988-January, 1990). Like many other [[Silver Age]] heroes he then got a thorough [[Continuity Reboot]] under [[The DCU|DC]]'s ''Vertigo'' imprint; the alien fugitive with a technological gizmo was replaced by a soulful poet from a parallel world who could [[Reality Warper|warp reality]].
The reboot was written in 1990 under Britwave author [[Peter Milligan]] and then-fledgling artist [[Chris Bachalo]]. Like the work of previous British authors [[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Alan Moore]], the series was highly experimental, combining history, mythology, literary allusions, and genre deconstruction. The series would run seventy issues, reaching its conclusion in 1996.
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Recent years have seen Shade making appearances in some of Milligan's other DC work - his ''[[Hellblazer]]'' run, ''[[Flashpoint (comics)|Flashpoint]]'' miniseries "Secret Seven", and ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League Dark]]''. Notably, the latter two see Shade incorporated into the main DCU.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: The Devil, who comes across as a civilized, cultured gentleman {{spoiler|who eventually stabs Shade in the back. He is the Devil, after all}}.
* [[Alternate Universe]] - Meta.
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