Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Gundala



Gundala is one of fiction superhero created by Hasmi. His first appearance on 1969 at “Gundala Son of Thunder”. The genre of this comic is fantasy. The idea maybe come from Thor(marvel comics) and Flash (DC comics). The background setting are in Yogyakarta & Jakarta. This figure once go to the movie at 1982 with the same title.

Background

As a genius researcher, Sancaka found anti thunder serum. Sink in his ambition to study this in the depth, he forget Minarti birthday (his girlfriend). After that, they broke up. Sancaka with guilty feeling run in the rainy days. Suddenly a thunder hit him which cause him in coma condition. At this situation, his spirit is go to another planet and being adopt by Kaisar Kronz from the Thunder Kindom. He was blessed with superhero power with lightning from his hand and speed like wind from King Taifun from Bayu Kingdom.

Since this time, where he awake from his coma condition, he become a crimefighter with codename Gundala

The enemy

Gundala find his tricky enemy named Ghazul in the story “Dokumen Candi Hantu” at first time in 1969. The other enemy is Pengkor which can create a fake Gundala. This fake Gundala go into the robbery and other crime, so the real Gundala hunted by other Superhero.

The woman

In the adventure with other superhero named Kalong at Pangkalan Pemunah Bumi (1977), Gundala meet with a beautiful reporter. Her name is Sedhah Esti Wulan which later become his wife. This woman have a secret also. In the other story, Sedhah become a superheroine too with codename Merpati. (Indonesian word for pigeon).

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