Mitch Wacky

Wackyland? Wacky Wonders? This guy must have a huge ego.

I've mentioned characters that are stand-in for other characters (such as Captain Strong and the Guardians of the Globe). However, there have been comic characters based on real-life people. Mitch Wacky is an example of Walt Disney stand-in.
History
Mitch Wacky was a native from the planet Angor. There, he created theme park Wackyland. Mitch contracted influenza, which Angor lacked a cure for. He reprogrammed Wackyland to run itself while he when into suspended animation. A group of super villains, the Extremists, caused a nuclear holocaust. The theme park rebuild the world and tried to restore it to its former glory. However, it also created robot copies of the Extremists and their heroic archenemies Assemblers. The Extremists copies destroyed the Assemblers and took over. Dreamslayer (a member of the original Extremists) took over the team and convinced them to invade Earth. The Justice League of Europe ended up clashing the robots. The JLE awakened Mitch and cured his influenza. After being alerted about the situation, Mitch deactivated the Extremists robots. Mitch went on several adventures with the JLE. With the help of Kilowog, Mitch built a time machine and tried to the original Extremists. However, he accidentally detonated the bomb himself. Later, Dreamslayer kidnapped him and tried to force Mitch to repair the Extremists robots. Due to a lack sleep, he was only able to rebuild Lord Havok. Exhaustion eventually killed Wacky.
References:
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Mitch_Wacky_(New_Earth)
http://www.comicvine.com/mitch-wacky/4005-10192/

Vega: A Man's World

The first page of the comic

This is a weird comic I found. "Vega: A Man's World" was a story featured Omega Men issue 27. It was written by Alan Moore (writer of Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta and From Hell).
The story revolves around a female alien biologist (who is called "Leelyo" by the other characters, but it is unclear if that is her actual name or just an alien word). She is visiting the planet Culacao, whose natives are all male. Leelyo notices the natives have a strange ritual where they stab the purple membrane on giant mollusks with a spear. The story opens with her witnesses them performing the ritual. She notes how her translator, Mopi, has tried to explain the ritual, but the concepts are too alien for her to understand. She wonders show the all-male natives natives can reproduce. Leeylo reveals to Mopi that woman can reproduce. Mopi takes her to his hut so they can do so. The next day, Mopi talks to his fellow native Rudo and it is revealed that the natives stab the membrane to cause the mollusk to create more of themselves. It's revealed Mopi, misunderstanding what Leelyo was telling him, stabbed her unintentionally killing her although he fails to realize what he did.
References:
http://swords-and-veeblefetzers.blogspot.com/2010/11/omega-men-27-vega-mans-world-alan-moore.html

Oz Squad

The titular team

Frank Baum's Oz books (give yourself a pat on the back if you actually knew there was more than one) have fallen into public domain. Like anything in public domain that is even remotely famous, they have numerous adaptions and re-imaginings. Oz Squad is an obscure example I stumbled upon. It re-imagines the Oz original characters as a darker and edgier superhero team.
Premise
The story takes place after the original forty novels and World War II. The Land of Oz (which is now a parallel dimension as opposed to just being a country that hard to reach) is seeking diplomatic relations with Earth. The Oz Squad is a special task force that protects both Oz and America. This team consists of Dorothy, Scarecrow, the no longer cowardly Lion and the Tin Woodsman. However, they have undergone changes: Dorothy is a nearly century-old but retains the body of a young adult, the Scarecrow has become morose, the Lion has gained the ability to assume the form of a human and the Tin Man has been technological updated. All of them now live in America. They mainly battled Rebecca Eastwitch, who is actually the returned Wicked Witch of the East. However, they battle other foes such as Tik-Tok (whose spring now causes him to be moral when it is wind up and evil when its not).
References:
http://www.leftfield.org/~rawdon/comics/reviews/oz.squad.html
http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/Oz_Squad
http://wiki.dorothyandozma.com/index.php/Famous_Forty
http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/Copyright

Big Hero 6

The original line-up

At time of publication, Disney is planning to give the Big Hero 6 their own movie. However, the team is still fairly obscure. As such, I am doing a post on them.
History
The Japanese government wanted their own superhero team. As such, they formed the Giri, a secret group of business and political entities, to create this team. The Giri recruited Silver Samurai (who became the field leader), Honey Lemon and GoGo Tomago. Mr. Oshima, a "Machiavellian" bureaucrat, became the team's coordinator and spokesperson. Hiro Takachiho was asked to join, but he only did so after the team helped him save his mother from Everwraith, the spiritual embodiment of people killed during the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings. Hiro had Baymax join as well. During the clash with Everwraith, the team were joined by Sunfire. The team moved their base (which was originally just the Giri Office Building) to the Japan's Cool World Amusement Park. At said park, they were attacked by the villain X the Unknown (who is able to alter his atomic structure into any shape or form). Aided the Canadian superhero team Alpha Flight, the Big Hero 6 used the fires of Mt. Fuji to destroy X. Later, the Big Hero 6 helped rescue people from a blizzard that was created by the Justine Hammer Crimson Cowl and her incarnation of the Masters of Evil. Sunfire quited the team in favor of joining the India branch of the X-Corporation. He was replaced by Sunpyre. Silver Samurai was seemingly killed and replaced by Ebon Samaurai. Hiro became the leader. The Big Hero 6 members were brainwashed to attack the Alpha Flight. During the fight, the device used to control them was short-circuited thus freeing them. The team later appeared in their own series. It focused on their adventures in America. Here Sunfire and Silver Samurai were replaced by Fredzilla and Wasabi No-Ginger.
Members

• Silver Samurai- Kenuichio Harada is a ronin that does freelance work. He used to be the bodyguard for the terrorist Viper. He could charge any object with energy make it so that object could cut through nearly anything. He prefers to use this on his katana. 
• Ebon Samurai- Kioshi Keishicho was a dead police officer brought back to life to kill Silver Samurai. However, he later gave up on his quest. He had a sword that could cut through almost anything.
• Sunpyre- She is from another dimension and was brought to ours by the Power Purse. She worshiped Honey Lemon as a god. She has powers similar to Sunfire.
• Wasabi No-Ginger- Wasabi No-Ginger (that's his real name) is a chef. He can generate telekinetic knives that can knock out people instead of cutting them.
• GoGo Tomago- Leiko Tanaka was released from prison in exchange for working on the team. By saying her code name, she turns into a force blast.
• Honey Lemon- Aiko Miyazaki is a secret agent. She invented the Power Purse, which can access another dimensions, which she uses for storage.  
• Baymax- Baymax is the artificial bodyguard created by Hiro. Its brain was modeled after Hiro's dead father. It could turn into a dragon.
• Fredzilla- Fred generates a kaiju-shaped aura. It becomes telekinetic armor when at full size. The armor has super strength and durability.
• Sunfire- Shiro Yoshida is a mutant and former X-Men member. He has flight, plasma blasts, infrared vision and radiation immunity.
• Hiro Takachiho- He is a 13-year old boy genius. He built Baymax.

References:
http://marvel.com/universe/Big_Hero_6
http://www.comicvine.com/honey-lemon/4005-5024/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunfire_(comics)
http://www.comicvine.com/ebon-samurai/4005-35535/
http://www.comicvine.com/big-hero-6/4060-40484/
http://www.comicvine.com/silver-samurai/4005-3174/
http://marvel.wikia.com/Leiko_Tanaka_(Earth-616)
http://www.comicvine.com/fredzilla/4005-35427/

Eraser

Talk about being a
pencil neck

Batman has one of the biggest rogue's gallery of any superhero. As such, he is no stranger to villains with weird gimmicks. The Eraser is definitely one of them.
History
Leonard "Lenny" Fiasco was a college student and classmate of Bruce Wayne. Lenny was constantly mocked by his classmates for his mistakes. Leonard had a crush on his classmate Celia Smith. However when he was about to ask her to an ice carnival, she decided to go with Bruce Wayne. Angered, this led him to a life of crime. Leonard became a cleaner (a criminal that removes evidence from crime scenes) that charged 20% of the crime's profits for his services. He donned a pencil costume and dubbed himself "the Eraser". Baffled by the Eraser, the police has Batman faked a crime scene and "hire" the Eraser to remove the "evidence". When Batman confronted him, the Eraser (due to various minor details) figured out Batman is Bruce Wayne and explained his back story. Batman revealed he doesn't even remember Celia Smith. Enraged, Eraser used sleeping gas to knock Batman. He dragged Batman to a recreation of the ice carnival. Robin freed Batman and the duo defeat the Eraser. The Eraser has since appeared mainly in cameos most notably "Batman: RIP"  (in Bruce's imagination) and "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?".
Powers and Abilities
Like many Batman villains, the Eraser has no powers. However, he has gadgets instead. He wears pencil-point bladed shoes that can emit sleeping gas. He wears a helmet that has an eraser that he can use to erase things like fingerprints, footprints and so on.
References:
http://www.comicvine.com/eraser/4005-38566/

Vault of Obscurity 5

For the unaware, the "Vault of Obscurity" segment of this blog has me talking about multiple characters that can't support their own post.
Doctor No-Face

His Batman: The Brave and the Bold appearance

Bartholomew Magan had a facial scar. As such, he tried to use a device to erase it . However, it work too well and erased his entire face. He decides to become a criminal for some reason. Taking the name "Dr. No-Face", Bart and his crime ring used the device to erase other people's faces. Batman and Robin stopped him. Doctor No-Face later had a cameo in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
Iznogoud

Translation: "I want to be Caliph instead of the Caliph"

Iznogoud (pronounced "Is no good") is the Grand Vizier (a political adviser) to Haroun el-Poussah, the Caliph (ruler) of Bagdad. Despite pretending to be loyal to him, Iznogoud is actually trying to steal Haroun's position. Iznogoud is selfish, power-hungry and just generally a terrible person. He is aided by his lackey Dilat Laraht. Iznogoud's plan constantly fail and often leave him trapped in terrible fates (being a slave, transformed into a dog and etc.) that are ignored by the start of the next story.
The Black and White Bandit

Must be a fan of Sin City

Roscoe Chiara was an artist. Art lover and chemical company CEO Winsor Munsell hired Roscoe to make a painting of him with untested painting pigment. Naturally, Winsor didn't mention that the pigments were untested. Exposure to the pigments damaged Roscoe's vision causing him to see everything in black and white. The comic incorrectly calls this color blindness (which is actually an inability to distinguish certain colors such as red or green). As revenge, Roscoe became the super villain the Black and White Bandit and started stealing works of art from Munsell. Batman stopped him by luring him in a trap via a fake advertisement.
Roscoe is skilled at disguising himself. He has a gas mask and acess to chlorine gas. He has an escape zebra... seriously. At one point, BWB used black ink to blind Batman in order to distract him.
References:
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bartholomew_Magan_(New_Earth)
http://www.comicvine.com/dr-no-face/4005-35260/images/
http://www.comicvine.com/iznogoud/4005-41429/
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicBook/Iznogoud
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Roscoe_Chiara_(New_Earth)

Living Eraser

Ant-Man has a rogues gallery full of laughable villains such as the Human Top, Egghead and Porcupine. Here is one of the more bizarre members of his rogue gallery: the Living Eraser.
History
The Living Eraser is from Dimension Z (no connection to Dimension X from TMNT), which occupies the same space as our dimension but in a different universe (lets pretend that makes sense). He was sent to Earth to "erase" several scientists. In reality, he was teleporting them to Dimension Z, where they were held prisioner. Among his victims was Henry Pym, the original Ant-Man. However, Henry secretly smuggled the Wasp with him. As such, she helped free Henry. The duo fought an army of Dimension Z aliens and found their chief sciencist. Eraser killed the alien sciencist to prevent the secret of the techology getting in the hands of humanity. However, Eraser revealed his power came from the gadgets on his palms. As such, the Wasp and Ant-Man stole them and took the sciencist home. The Living Eraser appeared time from time later on and fought foes such as She-Hulk, the Thing and Morbius.
Powers and Abilities
The Living Eraser's powers come from the "atomically printed circuit[s]" on his hands. This allows him to "erase" people. In reality, the "erased" people are being sent to Dimension Z.
References:
http://www.comicvine.com/living-eraser/4005-12631/