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Name
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Bob Phantom
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Walter (Walt) Whitney
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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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Blue Ribbon Comics #2
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Year
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1939
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Publisher
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MLJ /Archie Comics
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Country of origin
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USA
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Christmas 1939: Broadway gossip columnist Walt Whitney is frustrated at the crime that runs rampant in his beloved city. Despite having a weakling image, Walt decides to become a masked hero to pursue crooks that the law can t touch. He calls himself Bob Phantom, after a famed stage magician whose greatest trick was to "fade out" on his audience. Walt Whitney s good friend Captain Casey gives him leads on crime, which he follows up as Bob Phantom. Jinx Friday, his girlfriend and secretary, also assists him. He can appear and disappear at will in a cloud of smoke, and seems to be invulnerable.
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Name
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Bobby Bell
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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 Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Year
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Publisher
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MLJ /Archie Comics
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Country of origin
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U.S.A.
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[Further details unavailable]
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Name
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Bogey Man
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Kendall Richards
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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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Red Band Comics #1
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Year
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1945
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Publisher
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Enwil Associates / Rural Home
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Country of origin
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USA
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The Bogeyman, very similar to the Spirit, fought crime and scared the bad guys. One & only appearance, but the first story was re-printed in issue #2
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Name
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Bomber Burns
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A.K.A.
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N/A
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Secret ID.
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Jack (Bomber) Burns
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Type
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Costumed Pilot
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Victory Comics #1
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Hillman Periodicals
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Country of origin
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USA
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Jack 'Bomber' Burns is a US stunt flyer, who with his co-pilot is attacked by Germans. The Germans kill his co-pilot Dave, and try to kill him also. He lands, steals a Lockheed XP-38 fighter ("The fastest plane in the world") modifies it with special superchargers, twelve browning machine guns, an oerlikon cannon, and a flame thrower from a Australian armoured car; fills it full of incendiary bullets and names it The Firebrand. He then gets himself a snazzy costume and swears revenge.
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Name
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Bombshell
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Dryas
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Young Robin Hood / Crime Buster / Yankee Longago
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1st Appearance
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Boy Comics #3 (1st issue)
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Year
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1942
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Publisher
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Lev Gleason Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Looking down at Earth, the Roman god of war, Mars, deciding that "war was never meant to reckless slaughter", sends his teenage son to Earth to battle the battle saboteurs and Nazi spies, often with the aid of his sometimes ally, Young Robin Hood. Brave and fearless, Bombshell is very effective in defeating the enemies of America, his newly adopted country which he calls home. Weapons: Magic sword which has the power to "destroy the machines of war but which can not take human life"; mystical golden shield.
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Name
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Bongo, Public Chimp #1
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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 Animal
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Superboy #38
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Year
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1955
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Publisher
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National Periodical Publications (DC)
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Country of origin
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U.S.A.
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Bongo is a TV star of the time, on a Saturday morning kids hour type show
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Name
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Boom Boom Branigan
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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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Non Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Year
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Publisher
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Prize Publications
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Country of origin
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U.S.A.
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[Further details unavailable]
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Name
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Boomerang
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Lloyd Raleigh
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Diana (Side-kick)
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1st Appearance
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Terrific Comics #2
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Year
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1944
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Publisher
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Continental Magazines Inc
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Country of origin
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USA
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Captain Lloyd Raleigh, of the U.S. Intelligence , decides to fight crime undercover as the Boomerang. His partner is his girlfriend Diana. He has no powers, but uses a boomerang which he has in a specially designed holster.
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Name
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Bouncer
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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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Non Costumed Team
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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The Bouncer # - (Formally The Green Mask, #10)
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Year
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1944
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Publisher
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Fox Features Syndicate
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Country of origin
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USA
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Adam Antaeas Jr. is a sculptor and artist. He creates a statue of the Greek "god" Antaeus, only to find that when danger threatens the statue comes to life. When that happens, Adam gains super strength--the statue already has it--and can, like the statue, bounce through the air and land on bad guys, stopping them cold. Of course, like the mythical Antaeus, Adam and the statue are both vulnerable in mid-bounce.
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Name
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Bow Master
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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 Archer
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Affiliation/Team
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Green Arrows of the World?
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1st Appearance
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World's Finest Comics #79
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Year
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1955
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Publisher
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National Periodical Publications (DC)
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Country of origin
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USA details missing
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The Archer from across the Sea. The text says he's from Europe but doesn't say where exactly. Since he's wearing a beret (and since France already has the Phantom), I'm guessing Belgium. In this story the visiting archer gets kidnapped by a hoodlum who takes his place to get revenge on Green Arrow. Copper
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