Marvel's original Ant-Man started out as a "mad scientist" in a one-shot SF-story before graduating to costumed crusader status. However, in DEFENDERS #21 Steve Gerber topped Stan Lee in the re-purposing of one-shot characters, when he invented The Headmen. These characters-- Arthur Nagan, Jerry Morgan and Chondu the Mystic-- had all been the "stars" of one-shot tales in 1950s mystery-stories, and Gerber only brought them together because all of their separate stories had been collected in an issue of the 1970s reprint-title WEIRD WONDER TALES. Of course, once they became villains to the Defenders, they became "charisma-dominant" types from then on.
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