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Name
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Amazing Man
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A.K.A.
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The Green Mist
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Secret ID.
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John Aman
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Tommy the Amazing Kid (Side-Kick)
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1st Appearance
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Amazing-Man Comics #5 (1st issue)
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Year
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1939
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Publisher
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Centaur Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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In 1920 John Aman, a child orphan, was chosen, by the Tibetan Council of Seven to be trained to "perfection," both mental and physical. When he's 25 he's ready to fight crime in the outside world. He returns to America and does just that. His kid side-kick is Tommy the Amazing Kid. He is also helped by 'Zona Handerson', ace girl crime investigator. Amazing Man's powers include super strength, invulnerability, and the ability to make himself disappear in a cloud of green vapour. It is for that last power that he is also known as the 'Green Mist.' Amazing Man's arch-enemy is The Great Question, an evil telepath. Amazing Man has the distinction of being the first 'super-hero' to debut in his own title.
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Name
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Amazona, The Mighty Woman
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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None
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Type
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Costumed Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Planet Comics #3 (only appearance)
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Fiction House Magazines
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Country of origin
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USA
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In the vast cold reaches of the far north lives Amazona, woman of surpassing strength and unmatched beauty. She and her people are the last survivors of a super race that perished during the period of the last ice age. When she meets a handsome explorer she falls for him and follows him back to America. Amazona is immune to the effects of cold, has super strength and endurance, and the agility of a cat.
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Name
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American Ace
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Perry Webb
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Type
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Non Costumed Pilot
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Marvel Mystery Comics #2
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Year
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1939
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Publisher
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Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
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Country of origin
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USA
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Perry Webb, an American pilot and mining engineer, gets involved in a war in (Attania) Europe between two small countries. He has no superpowers but is a skilful pilot.
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Name
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American Avenger (The)
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A.K.A.
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El Gaucho
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Secret ID.
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Don Caldwell
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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USA Comics #5 (Only Appearance)
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
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Country of origin
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USA
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Don Caldwell is an American college student in Argentina when he is persuaded by an old man to take up the costume and fighting methods of the South American patriot of the 19th century, El Gaucho. Caldwell does, and defeats German sympathizers in Argentina. He has no superpowers but is a good fighter, horseman, and skilled with lasso, bolo and whip.
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Name
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American Crusader
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Prof' Archibald Masters
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Mickey Martin (Side-Kick)
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1st Appearance
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Thrilling Comics #19
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Nedor/Better/ Standard Comics
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Country of origin
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USA
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Science Professor Archibald Masters, a timid scientist at a university in an unnamed (New York) East Coast port, is disgusted with both crime and the Axis powers, and invents an 'atom smasher.' An experiment goes awry and he is exposed to radiation, granting him superpowers. He then puts on a costume and fights the bad Guys, meanwhile keeping his civilian identity a secret, much to the disgust of his secretary and possible love interest Jane Peters. His superpowers include super strength, flight, speed, and invulnerability to bullets. His partner in do-gooding is Mickey Martin.
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Name
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American Eagle (1)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Tom Standish
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Eaglet (Side-Kick)
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1st Appearance
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America's Best Comics #2
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Year
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1942
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Publisher
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Nedor/Better/ Standard Comics
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Country of origin
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USA
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Scientist Tom Standish and young pal Bud Pierce gain superpowers from a black ray device and use those powers to fight crime, Nazis and saboteurs as the patriotic duo of American Eagle and Eaglet.
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Name
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Amok (The masked giant)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Unknown
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Amok #1
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Year
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1947
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Publisher
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Agostino della Casa
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Country of origin
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Italy
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Amok was an Giavanese crimefighter engaged in a war to the death with the 'Scorpion' gang. He fought alongside his faithful companions, newspaperman Bill Davidson, comic side-kick Kyo and his pet Panther.
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Name
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Angel (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Thomas Halloway
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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All-Winners Squad
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1st Appearance
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Marvel Comics #1
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Year
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1939
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Publisher
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Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
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Country of origin
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USA
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Thomas Halloway is a private eye, who fights crime. In his first story it did not disclose how he became The Angel. A non-human origin was sometimes hinted at in early stories by having him cast a shadow with large wings. He didn't maintain a secret identity at first, but was addressed as 'Angel' even when wearing a regular suit rather than his stylised blue tights with red cape and yellow wings on his chest. His only super power was an occasionally-exercised ability to fly, and many perfectly human superheroes have that. Anyway, it was attributed to the aerodynamic qualities of the cape. Halloway's mother had died in childbirth and his father, a prison warden, had raised him in the prison, isolated from outside human contact except for the experts the warden brought in to teach the boy everything there was to know.
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Name
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Anne
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Ann Mason
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Type
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Jungle Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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Kaanga
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1st Appearance
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Jungle Comics #1
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Fiction House Magazines
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Country of origin
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USA
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Kaanga is a white boy who is orphaned when his explorer family and other members of their expedition are slaughtered in the Congo. The boy, whose real name is never revealed, runs away and is adopted by a local tribe of ape-men. They raise him to be one of their own, and he grows up to be one of them, forgetting all he knew of the white man s ways and talk. Sure enough, of course, as an adult he gets involved with some white people who re-teach him English. He falls in love with one of them, Ann Mason, and the pair marry and live, Tarzan-and-Jane-like, in the jungle, fighting for good against everything from bad animals to dinosaurs to witch doctors to Germans.
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Name
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Anthony Fury
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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None
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Type
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Jungle Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Anthony Fury (One Shot)
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Year
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1942
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Publisher
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Consolidated Press
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Country of origin
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Australia
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An Australian Tarzan clone, after Tarzan comics were prohibited in Australia.
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