... I can try but you won't believe me. Flex Mentallo, ''Man of Muscle Mystery'', is supposed to be a SilverAge super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement ... the strange thing is that he's a fictional comic book character created by a young psychic named Wally Sage. Flex is then brought to life through Wally's abilities and [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]]. He meets up with the DoomPatrol, saves everyone from a telephone monster from underneath the Pentagon, and then helps, uh, destroy [[DarkAge the Dark Age]].

Anyway, Mentallo was created by GrantMorrison, which [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs explains a lot]]. He first appeared in ''"DoomPatrol''" vol. 2 #35 (August, 1990). He was regularly featured in the series to 1991, before getting his own 4-issue mini-series (1996) which deconstructed and reconstructed comic books in their entirety and was about growing up, holding onto your imagination, love, hope, responsibility and realizing that, yeah, there will always be heroes... and you might just be one of them.

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... I can try but you won't believe me. Flex Mentallo, ''Man of Muscle Mystery'', is supposed to be a SilverAge super-hero with a CharlesAtlasSuperpower that allows him to do, well, anything by flexing his muscles while simultaneously being a parody of a Charles Atlas advertisement ... the strange thing is that he's a fictional comic book character created by a young psychic named Wally Sage. Flex is then brought to life through Wally's abilities and [[TheyFightCrime fights crime]]. He meets up with the ComicBook/DoomPatrol, saves everyone from a telephone monster from underneath the Pentagon, and then helps, uh, destroy [[DarkAge the Dark Age]].

Anyway, Mentallo was created by GrantMorrison, which [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs explains a lot]]. He first appeared in ''"ComicBook/DoomPatrol''" vol. 2 #35 (August, 1990). He was regularly featured in the series to 1991, before getting his own 4-issue mini-series (1996) which deconstructed and reconstructed comic books in their entirety and was about growing up, holding onto your imagination, love, hope, responsibility and realizing that, yeah, there will always be heroes... and you might just be one of them.

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