Talk:Black Manta

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I doubt many people will ever read this but nearly all the info on the Black Manta page is copied almost word-for-word from page 46 of the DC Comics Encyclopedia (published by DK in the UK, ISBN: 1-4053-0591-6). I'm not entirely sure if that counts as copyright infringement but at the very least I find it pretty lazy of the original author to just open up a book and type out what they see...

Contents 1 Heroclix 2 Infobox streamlining 3 Fair use rationale for Image:Blackmanta.jpg 4 Devil Ray article should stay 5 Main image 6 Raped?

[edit] Heroclix

As per the March 13 edit of the article, consensus on Heroclix info was reached at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics#Heroclix. dfg 17:09, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox streamlining

In regards to the edit of this character's "Notable Powers" section of the Infobox, please see revelant topics at Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/templates and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics#Infobox: Powers section. Thanks. dfg 19:38, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Blackmanta.jpg

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[edit] Devil Ray article should stay

It has been addressed on the Devil Ray article that it should be merged with Black Manta. I think the two articles should remain seperate unless we are going to merge Black Vulcan article with the Black Lightning articles. I think that's the only fair thing to do. Magic-Man 8:08, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

It's not about "fair", it's about real world notability which an alternate version of a character does not constitute alone.~Zythe^{Talk to me!} 00:24, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

McDuffie stated explictly that Devil Ray is a poorly veiled stand in for Black Manta. I vote merge. 66.109.248.114 23:50, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

With appearances in only two episodes, I question if Devil Ray satifies notarity criteria. 66.109.248.114 02:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Discussion closed w/ consensus to merge. 66.109.248.114 01:25, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Main image

Can't we find a better image of this guy? Yeah, we all love Alex Ross, but the main image in a character's infobox should not be of him partially occluded because he's standing behind another, rather visually distinctive character. Bizarro gets virtually as much, if not more, panel space than Manta. Ford MF 19:26, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Raped?

"As a youth he was kidnapped, raped and forced to work on a ship for an unspecified amount of time..."

Is this accurate? I don't recall rape figuring into ANY Silver Age story line due to the observance of the Comics Code at that time. --Joe Webster (talk) 12:02, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Maybe this happened in Justice, that series that Alex Ross illustrates? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.238.90.199 (talk) 21:46, 25 December 2007 (UTC)