This Easter egg is perfectly in tone with the noir-inspired third season of "DC's Stargirl." If you noticed the references to Nathaniel Dusk and were wondering who that is, we've got you covered. Obscure even by classic comic book standards, Dusk isn't super well-known, particularly if you skipped the "Doomsday Clock" comics, where he plays a vital role.
Introduced as a hard-boiled detective in the mid 1980s, the character is best-known for a pair of four-issue miniseries that play on classic pulp fiction. In "Doomsday Clock," his story is a meta one: We discover that the character is actually fictional in-universe and he's the star of his own franchise. He's portrayed by an actor named Carver Colman, who is discovered bludgeoned to death in his own home. The murder weapon is an award won by the actor.
Dusk's status as a noir detective is intact in the series, but there are some key elements of his history that have been changed. In "Stargirl," Nathaniel Dusk is a marquee name dropped casually into the background, gracing movie posters in Blue Valley. In classic Nathaniel Dusk form, he's more of a footnote than a crucial plot element here. Nevertheless, the presence of his name helps to set the tone of the scene and of the season in general.
