Who's the Human Target?

Who's This? A super impersonator.

The facts: Though a "Human Target" appeared in Detective Comics #201 in 1953, Christopher Chance, the bodyguard who makes himself look like you to lure the killer, was created by Len Wein and Carmine Infantino for Action Comics #419 (December 1972), and would appear in sporadic back-up tales there and in Detective Comics through the 70s. Dick Giordano became the artist most associated with him. The Vertigo imprint revitalized him with a mini-series, a special and an ongoing by Peter Milligan, giving him a personality dysfunction due to his taking on other identities. Though he scored a very short-lived  television show (starring Rick Springfield) in 1992, Chance got two seasons out of a 2010 series, starring Mark Valley.
How you could have heard of him: Tom King being the popular writer he is (whether I like it or not), wrote a Human Target series for DC Black Label which was a take on D.O.A. staining the reputation of the Bwa-ha-ha Justice League. And if you spend a lot of time here, you might remember that I wrote many pieces on the Human Target in and around the 2010 TV series.
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Example story: Detective Comics #486 (October-November 1979) "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Contract!" by Len Wein and Dick Giordano

For anyone who thinks I was exaggerating with the epithet "super", above, reread that first blurb:

A Man of Steel...-hard nerves. Yeah, baby. And yet, the hair on the back of his neck manages to rise while wearing a wetsuit. I need some divers to weigh in here and tell me if that's possible. But hold on. Christopher Change is being attacked by a shark? How did we get here? Step into the flashback machine and find out.

Holy crap! That's Dane and Judy Dorrance! I wasn't expecting a crossover with the Sea Devils! Advanced a few years since the Silver Age strips, Dane has a beard and various injuries. See, a friend of theirs had gone missing while searching a 17th-Century shipwreck, and Dane was crushed by a falling mast while trying to find him. An accident? No. Dane saw someone push the mast over, but he doesn't know who. Now it's up to chance to infiltrate the local diving community as Dane Dorrance using his SUPER impersonation skills.

Chance decided to go diving that night, before the would-be assassin went back to the wreck to hide evidence, and then a shark happened because Jaws, that's why, and here we are. Time for some sensitive snout action, and a nod to Jaws II.

Inspecting the wreck, Chance, by chance, chances upon a chest filled with treasure... and with the decaying body of Dorrance's friend, Harry Bonner. And geez, hadn't he only been missing a few days?

I guess the fish got him. Inside a trunk. I blame the Comics Code, not the creative team. Skeletons okay, decaying corpses, too far. One of the two suspects shows up - I don't know who any of these dudes were to begin with, so how can I be invested in the mystery? - ready to kill Dane for the treasure. His spear misses the Human Target (hm, seems like this comic doesn't do what it says on the tin), but Chance has just enough time to grab the one in Bonner's chest so he can fight the murderous diver.

Christopher Chance - man of ACTION! - and I think we can guess where the bad guy's greed is going to take him...

Screw you, Comics Code! I guess so long as they don't color the bubbles in red, it's fine. Release the bloody cut!

I'm always up for some Human Target stories, not because of the attempted murder mysteries (they're often too short for that), but because I know there's bound to be some cinematic action. He can do it all. Of course, here, this might as well have been a Sea Devils comic. Older readers might have gotten a thrill from seeing Dane again. If indeed, that was always Dane. It seems possible to me that they realized at the editing stage that a diving story could star some Sea Devils, thrown in a late explanation for the beard (Judy likes it) and made sure to color the wetsuits purplish red. Now THERE'S an actual mystery...

Who's Next? A forgotten cat villainess.