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Name  Ace Archers of Japan
A.K.A. N/A
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Costumed Archer
Affiliation/Team Green Arrows of the World
1st Appearance World's Finest Comics #250
Year 1958
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Ace Archers of Japan's base of Operations: Japan. Trick Arrow Specialities: Jiu-jitsu Arrow Copper
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Name  Ace Hart (The Atom Man)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Val Venture
1st Appearance Superthriller #6
Year 1948
Publisher Foldes Press
Country of origin UK
Ace Hart, a young scientist, through an elixir has been able harness atomic energy to his own body, which gives him the strength of twenty men, and enables him to fly faster than a jet. He operates from a laboratory which has a device for sensing when and where people are in danger, so that he can race to their rescue. He sometimes used a ray gun
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Name  Ace of Space
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Ace Egan
Type Costumed Pilot
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Feature Comics #38
Year 1940
Publisher Quality Comics
Country of origin USA
In 1940, Ace Egan finds a crashed UFO and uses its advanced technology to fight crime and spies as the Ace of Space.
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Name  Ace Powers
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Silver Streak Comics #3
Year 1939
Publisher Lev Gleason Publications
Country of origin USA
Ace is a tough-as-nails and very hard-boiled private eye.
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Name  Ace Rogers
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Comic Adventures vol 7 #2
Year 1949
Publisher A. Soloway Ltd
Country of origin UK
Ace Rogers in his Planet plane is to be the first Earthman to land on the Moon. His ship is forced off course and lands on the unknown world. Ruled by the evil Vlaga, who at that very moment had legions of mindless men heading to Earth to destroy it! How will Ace fare? We will never know as this story appeared in the last issue. Started life as Ace Rogers of the submarine salvo' in Comic Adventures 1943.
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Name  Ace The Bat-Hound
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Ace
Type Costumed Animal
Affiliation/Team Batman & Robin
1st Appearance Batman #92
Year 1955
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
John Wilker has a trained Alsatian dog that gets lost, and is found by the dynamic duo Batman & Robin. He follows them to a crime and helps out by apprehending a criminal. Batman gives him a mask to hide a mark on his head, after he had already advertised the dog as lost in the Gotham Gazette.
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Name  Air Wave
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Larry Jordan
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Static the parrot
1st Appearance Detective Comics #60
Year 1942
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Larry Jordan, a District Attorney, gets frustrated with the slowness of the law and decides to fight crime as a D.A. and as the costumed hero Air Wave. He develops electrical gear, makes a costume, and away he goes. His partner is Static, an unusually intelligent talking parrot. He has no powers, but his costume has radio communicators in it; the skates in his boots allow him to glide along power lines, at the speed of electricity. Retired in 1948. Later Killed, Wife became 'Air Wave' to avenge his death. Had a son named Hal Jordan (cousin of Silver age Green Lantern)
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Name  Airboy
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Davy Nelson
Type Costumed Pilot
Affiliation/Team Valkyrie
1st Appearance Air Fighters Comics #2
Year 1942
Publisher Hillman Periodicals
Country of origin USA
Davy Nelson is a boy pilot whose father is a scientist with the government and whose friend, Martier the monk, designed a special, bat-winged plane. The friend died when the plane crashed. Davy inspects the wreckage, discovers what went wrong, fixes it. Then, wearing the French Revolution costume of Martier, which was handed down through generations, uses the plane to fight evil and the Axis threat during World War One. Airboy has no powers, but he is a skilled pilot and his plane, "Birdie," is the superior of any other in the world.
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Name  Airmale
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Kenneth Stevens
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Stampy (Side-Kick)
1st Appearance Prize Comics #34
Year 1943
Publisher Prize Publications
Country of origin USA
Kenneth Stevens, a biology professor, is trying to perfect a "flight fluid," but is in a hurry to a costume party and accidentally spills some of the fluid on his hand. This makes him lighter than air, and he uses his new power and the costume he was wearing at the time of the accident to fight crime as Air male. He is assisted by Stampy. Stevens is always lighter than air, but he wears a "gravity belt" which regulates the flow of gravity around him, so that he can fly or walk on the ground.
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Name  AirMan
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Drake Stevens
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Keen Detective Funnies #23
Year 1940
Publisher Centaur Publications
Country of origin USA
Professor Claude Stevens, a renowned ornithologist, is senselessly murdered. His son Drake is outraged and gets no justice from the police. So Drake puts together a costume consisting of a pair of gas-filled wings, a jet-pack, and some bombs, and goes hunting for criminals. He has no superpowers, but between his wings (the gas filling them is lighter-than-air) and his jet pack he can fly, and his bombs and guns allow him to kill and blow things up.
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