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Name
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Black Owl (2) (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Walt Walters
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Yank & Doodle (Side-Kicks)
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1st Appearance
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Prize Comics #34
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Year
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1943
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Publisher
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Prize Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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After Doug Danville retires, he passes the mantle of Black Owl to Walt who becomes the new Black Owl. He has no superpowers.
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Name
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Black Panther (1)
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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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Stars & Stripes Comics #3
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Year
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1941
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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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This character's private identity and origin was never revealed. He has no superpowers, but is good with his fists and a his knife.
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Name
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Black Panther (2)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Valda Rune
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Type
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Costumed Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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The Shadow
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1st Appearance
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Shadow Comics #?
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Year
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1943
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Publisher
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Street & Smith
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Country of origin
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USA details missing
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Valda Rune was originally introduced as a Villainess, but changed sides and joined The Shadow as a side-kick along with Shadow Jr. She had no powers. Gibson was shocked to receive a lawsuit from the Bell Syndicate, threatening a lawsuit unless he immediately discontinued using one of his supporting characters, the half-heroine, half-villainess named Valda. Valda had made several appearances in the Shadow Comic, prowling through his adventures in a skin-tight black cat suit that she'd found in a costume shop. Bell Syndicate claimed that this image was a direct violation of their copyright on Miss Fury, the famous feline crime fighter created by Tarpe Mills. While Valda was certainly not an important addition to the Shadow mythos, Gibson wasn't one to be pushed around. He pulled out the stash of syndicated Shadow strips in which Valda made her first appearance, which were later reproduced in the Shadow Comics in question. These strips show a lean, feline Valda, a full year before Miss Fury first hit the newsstands. Needless to say, the charges were dropped (c) www.shadowsanctum.net
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Name
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Black Raiders
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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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Black Raiders
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1st Appearance
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Power Comics #3
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Year
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1945
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Publisher
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Holyoke Publications
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Country of origin
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USA details missing
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From the cover art, all you can tell is that the two guys fight giant birds of prey, while standing in a nest of jewellery, or maybe they're tiny guys in a bird's nest!
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Name
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Black Satan
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Howard Flynn
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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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Yankee Comics #1
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Harry 'A' Chesler Dynamic Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Black Satan is a district attorney by day, Howard Flynn became the Black Satan at night to crusade against crime. He had no powers. He carries a special gun that can blind his foes. Only appearance, 7 page story 'The Coming of Black Satan' (Thanks to Jake Oster)
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Name
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Black Spider (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Ralph Nelson
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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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Super-Mystery Comics #3
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Ace Magazines (Periodical House)
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Country of origin
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USA
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District Attorney Ralph Nelson puts on a costume to fight criminals who elude the law. He is assisted by his secretary Peggy Dodge. Good fighter. He carries specially trained spiders in a container on his belt.
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Name
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Black Terror (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Bob Benton
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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The Terror Twins (Tim Side-Kick)
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1st Appearance
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Exciting Comics #9
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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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Bob Benton, mild-mannered pharmacists, invents a formula of "formic ethers" that gives him superpowers. He uses these to fight crime and the Axis powers. His side-kick is Tim wears the same costume and has the same powers. His girlfriend was Jean Starr, the mayor's secretary. The Terror's powers are super strength and limited invulnerability, although he was often seen with a machine gun in each hand.
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Name
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Black Venus.
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Mary LeRoche
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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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Contact Comics nn (#1)
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Year
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1944
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Publisher
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Aviation Press
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Country of origin
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USA
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Beautiful, black haired Mary LeRoche does her thing for WWII war effort by working in a serviceman's canteen on an American held South Pacific island. No one knew, not even her pilot boy friend, Lt Bill Evans, that the brave girl also masquerades as the high flying siren of the skies... Black Venus.
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Name
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Black Widow (1)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Claire Voyant
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Type
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Costumed Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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None / In 2008 became a member of Marvel's The Twelve.
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1st Appearance
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Mystic Comics Vol 1 #4
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Year
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1940
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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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The Infernal Lord chose a psychic who called herself "Claire Voyant" to be his agent. He inserted himself into one of her seances, and manipulated events so most of the clients present wound up dead. The one survivor blamed Claire, and murdered her in revenge. Satan then claimed Claire, body and soul, and transformed her into The Black Widow (who looked just like Claire except for her heavily shaded, deeply sunken eyes). The Lord of Darkness endowed The Black Widow with various supernatural powers. Naturally, her first use of them was revenge. She materialized before her murderer in a ball of flame, then killed him by merely laying a hand on his brow leaving his corpse with a spider shape burned into his flesh where her hand had been.
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Name
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Black Widow (2)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Linda Masters
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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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Cat.man Comics #1
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Holyoke / Tem Publishing
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Country of origin
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USA
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Linda Masters' husband is murdered by criminals, so she puts on a mask and fights crime as the Black Widow. She has no powers but is good in a fight, is willing to kill, and is a good detective. She is helped by Police Detective Blake. Only appearance.
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