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     (1996)

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Flex Mentallo #1
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1996
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Flex Mentallo #1
 
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Four-issue miniseries that conveys the history of the comic book genre through the lifespan of a central character

Considered one of Grant Morrison's most profound yet perplexing stories

Flex Mentallo #2
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1996
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Flex Mentallo #2
 
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Morrison's criticism of the dark and somber superhero trend in the 1990s is layered into the subtext of the story

Morrison refers to this series along with The Invisibles and The Filth as a "hypersigil" trilogy, a term coined by Morrison that refers to a work of art with its own willpower to persist in delivering its meaning

Flex Mentallo #3
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1996
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The story occurs on two planes of existence, fiction and reality where the creation attempts to convince the creator not to kill himself

Flex Mentallo #4
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1996
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Flex Mentallo #4
 
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In 2000, the Charles Atlas corporation filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against DC Comics for the portrayal of Flex Mentallo being a parody of the real-life Italian bodybuilder

The lawsuit was eventually dismissed but series was out-of-print for over a decade and commanded a considerable amount on the secondary market

Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery has since been published in a hardcover deluxe edition collection and a trade paperback

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