Jeffrey C. Hogue

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Jeffrey C. Hogue is the current president of Charles Atlas, Inc. He also owns the rights to a number of low budget films, some of which he licensed to VCI Home Video, and more recently to Something Weird Video.

Nearly eight years after the fact, he brought a lawsuit against DC Comics over the character Flex Mentallo from Grant Morrison's Vertigo incarnation of Doom Patrol, because his origin parodied that of Charles Atlas advertisements, specifically in vol. 2 #42, but also in later issues and in a Flex Mentallo limited series. The judge ruled that not only did he wait to long too make such a claim, but that because a comic book is an artistic medium unto itself and not an advertisement for another product, Morrison had the right to parody an image, particularly one as recognizable as a long-running national advertisement, particularly when his powers bore little resemblance to the bodybuilder's strength of the advertisements. Hogue appealed, but did not win. DC agreed not to use the character any longer, however. Whether or not he will be censored from trade paperback collections (he would normally appear in volume 4), remains to be seen.