Gayest Costumes in Comic Book History By Eric Diaz  [10 more lists]

One of the few women on this list. Dazzler was created by Marvel in the late 70's in what was then one of the weirdest scenarios in comics, a multi media co-creation. Disco label Casablanca records would create a singer named Dazzler, then a movie studio would get a star to play her in a movie, and finally Marvel would chronicle her comic book adventures. By 1980, the "Disco Sucks" backlash had started, and everyone but Marvel had pulled out of the project, leaving them with a new character to promote. Apparently, Dazzler's outfit was designed by a young John Romita Jr. I believe Mr. Romita to be very straight, but he was channeling some serious gay energy the day he designed Dazzler. Looking like every single disco cliche, Dazzler sported a shiny silver jumpsuit with a flared collar, mirrored roller skates, and an actual disco ball hanging around her neck. Not only that, but she had some kind of Butterfly mask. Dazzler's powers were something like turning sound to light or some s**t, but her true power was her fabulousness. Despite selling 400,000 copies of her first issue (a staggering amount by today's standards) Dazzler's series was in the s**tter by 1985. Then they tried to make her look more Flashdance and less Xanadu to fit with the times. She still shows up today, usually in an X-men book, but is always wearing a different outfit. As far as I'm concerned, if she ain't wearing them skates and that Disco ball, it ain't the real deal. She ain't my girl. The new Dazzler doesn't dazzle me. She's an impostor.

King of the Ocean Depths. Sovereign ruler of Atlantis. Bad attitude. Nope, not Aquaman. Despite being reffered to oh so nicely as "Aquafag" on HBO's Entourage, the gayest sea dweller costume award goes to Marvel's Namor. Why? Simple. It's barely a costume. At all. Namor is all buff (yet lean) with a perfect Michael Phelpsian swimmer's body, and his costume more or less is just a pair of green speedos. He never shows much of a bulge, though; I'm sure being in the water most of the time might have something to do with that. Adding even more gayness are the tiny little wings at Namor's feet that allow him to fly, defying even the lamest comic book physics. And Namor always seems to have the most perfectly tweezed eyebrows this side of all those young Mexican gay boys that go to all the Morrissey concerts. No one to my knowledge has ever accused the Sub-Mariner of looking queer, though, and considering he's been known to flood the city of New York when he's in a bad mood, I can see why. I can only hope that if there is ever a Namor flick they keep the costume the exact same way.

Rob Liefield. The name alone sends shivers down the spines of most fanboys with any taste. But between 1990 and 1994, Rob was a very popular artist and creator. Let’s give the man some credit; after all, he created literally dozens of characters that you don't care about today. Ok, a few like Cable and Deadpool are still around. But with the exception of Deadpool, very little of what Rob designed about those characters remains. Most of his creations sported some weird athletic look that evoked the extreme sports craze of the early 90's, and they were all indistinguishable from one another. Except for Stryfe. Stryfe is some evil clone of Cable or something. Who cares about that? Let's talk outfit! Stryfe wears shiny chrome armor with giant shoulder pads, phallic spikes coming out from all over, and giant flowing red cape and what looks to be one of the heaviest and most heavily accessorized helmets in villain history. The whole thing looks like something Bob Mackie would design for a Cher tour. It's that over the top. I don't think anyone is clamoring for the return of Stryfe, but someone should dust off his old outfit at least. Let Dazzler use it in one of her shows maybe.

An obscure Legion of Super Heroes villain, Grimbor first appeared back in a 70's issue of Superboy. Apparently, Grimbor's only power is creating complicated chains, bonds and other forms of confinement. Essentially, he was the first (and only?) S&M inspired Super Villain. His outfit is seriously out of control, like something you might see in German bondage p**n. Grimbor wears what appears to be a black leather one piece, leather straps and lots of chains. He made very few appearances over the years, although he did show up in an episode of Kid's WB's recent Legion of Super Heroes cartoon series. Needless to say, his look was way less gay. And way less memorable

While most female heroes in comics are scantily clad, most are scantily clad in a traditionally boring way, meant only to titillate the straight male readership. In other words, it's all cleavage and bare mid-riffs. Very few superhero women have any kind of extreme, fashionable sexiness. But one character who always did was the X-Men's Storm. Created in 1975 for the "All New All Different" X-Men, Storm was an African Goddess of considerable power. In fact, after Prof. X and Jean Grey, I'd say Storm is the next most powerful X-Man. X-Person. Whatever. The late Dave Cockrum designed her outfit, one that looks like something Grace Jones might have worn while doing blow at Studio 54. Plus, the giant mane of white hair and the cool white eyes just made Ororo Monroe into one of the most striking "strutting down the runway" looks of any of the female heroes. If only Halle Berry had had an ounce of the comic book Storm's fierceness to spare in the movies.