Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3361105-20130618190524/@comment-1038387-20131118224402

Aldo The Fox wrote: Person transforms using a device to become any superhero randomly, including pre-existing ones.

Only two cases of pre-existing heroes I know of: Robbie Reed into Plastic Man and Susie Schoemaker into the (then out-of-continuity) Supergirl. My favorite thing about the comic is that at least two of those kids sending in character later wrote stories for DC themselves: Stephen DeStefano created Zeep and Steve Mattsson created Flying Buttress.

I doubt the concept will work in today's market, primarily because of the bigger audience for fanfic and art (the Internet, as opposed to what, small fan groups?) and the changed attitude and legal issues surrounding fan-submitted work.

But yeah, the series was great at getting the reader involved. A lot of them were ridiculous, but the concept worked.