Who Wants to Be a Superhero: The Defuser

In 2009, Dark Horse Comics brought the reality competition Who Wants to Be a Superhero? to the page with a one-shot starring The Defuser, the champion of the show's first season. Written by the show's creator, Stan Lee, this single issue expands the character's backstory beyond the television series, chronicling his early days as a pacifist hero who uses non-lethal methods to disarm threats. It stands as a unique artifact of Lee's late-career multimedia experiments, offering a direct print extension of his televised superhero creation.