"I wonder who put"

should read

"I had wondered who put"

As in, items (1) and (2) are no longer outstanding questions.

Just so's you know, Chris, we ALL do that...or at least try! I've been writing comics for 35 year now and I JUST got to write my first Archie Comics stories, which I grew up on alongside DC, Marvel, Gold Key and Charlton. I've written characters for little or next to no money just for the opportunity to get to play with the Phantom or the Avenger or whoever. And when you're the 800 lb gorilla as Johns currently is, you use it and get to have your fun. While you can.

Paul

Paul

http://www.poeghostal.com/images/motuc/metrodac.jpg

http://www.planeteternia.de/grafiken/main/comicarea/preview_01.jpg

I wonder who put Zodac in the flying chair then, as

(1) his action figure does not come with one, nor is there any evidence from the toy itself that he was to be associated with it

(2) the chair, when it appears in comics, is identical in appearance to the throne in the Greyskull playset (the chair that you turn to open the trap door).

For those of you playing at home, this New God / He-Man parallel inference is unrelated to the debunked "MotU Movie was a New Gods Movie" Urban Legend, referenced here:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/11/02/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-75/

A big fan of the Fourth World material, but I don't think I ever wrote any of it, certainly not around that time...unless I've got a major brain fart going. My first connection with any of the Kirbyverse was when I tied TAKION into The Force, but that wasn't until 1996.

I'm told -- and I don't know because I never watched the cartoon (being, y'know, in my 20s when it came out) -- that a lot of the back story was based on the DC comic, so I guess I'm to blame, but I doubt I would've had Zodac in a flying chair if it hadn't been part of that original presentation.

Paul

Chris, to be fair, they just asked him if there are any toys he'd love to write about, and he picked He-Man. It's not like he's waging some kind of campaign for it. That's MY job.

OK. Apologies for aging you, but this is a mystery that has plagued me since the third grade.

According to the internet, back in the day you were the writer of the Masters of the Universe comic books published by DC Comics. These were the first items of media that gave a backstory / defined the universe, beyond the books that came with the toys themselves.

There was a character named Zodac; a spaceman-looking dude dressed in red with clawed feet. As a toy, he was labeled as an "Evil Cosmic Enforcer" but apparently the comic books from DC portrayed him as more of a neutral force who maintained a universal order or balance.

In some scenes, he was shown flying around on a throne, not unlike Metron of the New Gods (who, as a child, I wasn't exposed to until much later in life). Coincidentally, the design used for Zodac's throne was almost identical to the throne used inside the Castle Greyskull playset.

Now around the same time, some research I did a while back that I am unable to locate indicates that you were also writing some Fourth World material. This lead me to believe that you intended to create a Zodac / Metron parallel.

I am not the only one online that believes in a parallel between the two characters (just google for Metron Zodac and see), but there's never been any evidence as to WHY Zodac was flying around on the throne of Greyskull in those early books.

This is something that was never brought forward in the later Filmation cartoon and Marvel Comics universes.