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Name
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Blazing Scarab (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 Worthington
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Type
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Unknown
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Affiliation/Team
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Snowball
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1st Appearance
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Champion Comics #2 (issue # 1 had been a promotional give-away comic)
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Year
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1939
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Publisher
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Worth Publishing Co / Harvey Publications
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Country of origin
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USA details missing
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Walt Worthington, a young American archaeologist, finds a hidden tomb in the deserts of Egypt and discovers a "blazing scarab" which gives him superpowers. Walt's servant is a racist stereotype named "Snowball."
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Name
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Blazing Skull
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Mark Anthony Todd
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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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Mystic Comics Vol 1 #5
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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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Mark Todd, a reporter, while hiding in a subterranean cave is given a burning mask and taught "marvellous lore" by the "Skull Men of the Orient," he uses this to fight the Germans in Europe. He had super strength and was invulnerable to flame.
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Name
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Blonde Phantom (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Louise Grant
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Type
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Costumed Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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All-Winners Squad
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1st Appearance
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All-Select Comics #11 (last issue)
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Year
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1946
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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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In 1946, Louise Grant, secretary for private detective Mark Mason, took the masked identity of the crime-fighter Blonde Phantom. Often aiding Mason in his cases. Over the next few years she enjoyed great success as a hero, fighting such enemies as the mesmeric Signor Korte, the sorcerers Abra and Cadabra, and her nemesis Doctor Demise. She occasionally received assignments from a mysterious man called Father Time However in 1949 she chose to retire from costumed crime-fighting, revealing her identity to Mark Mason and marrying him. Exceptional hand-to-hand combatant, athlete, and markswoman.
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Name
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Blooperman
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Frankenstein
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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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Prize Comics #7
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Year
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1940
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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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Frank wonders what life would be like if he had (Superman's) Blooperman's powers. He wish is granted But his flying powers takes away his strength, and so he wishes himself back to plain old Frankenstein.
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Name
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Blue Beetle
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Daniel 'Dan' Garret
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Sparky (1) (Side-Kick)
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1st Appearance
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Mystery Men Comics #1
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Year
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1939
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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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Dan Garrett, a rookie cop, is offered the use of "vitamin 2-X" by kooky Dr. Franz, who wants the empowering vitamin to be used only by someone pure of heart. Garrett uses his new powers to fight crime. While under the influence of 2-X he has super strength, and he wears a bullet-proof blue chain mail costume. He also drove around the city in a hopped-up roadster and projected his beetle insignia onto walls in order to frighten criminals. He was helped by his side-kick Sparky. He has been known to kill.
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Name
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Blue Blade (The)
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A.K.A.
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The Fourth Musketeer?
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Secret ID.
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Roy Chambers
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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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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USA Comics #5
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Year
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1942
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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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A bare-chested, horse riding, fighting Musketeer. Who was never given an origin and only appeared the once! Created at the same time as the 'Fourth Musketeer', could he be one and the same?
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Name
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Blue Blaze
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Spencer Keen
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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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Mystic Comics Vol 1 #1
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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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In 1852 college student Spencer Keen is shown the "Blue Flame," which his father (a professor at "Midwest College") has discovered. While Spencer is being shown this, a tornado sweeps across the town Midwest College is in, killing 85% of the town's population and exposing Spencer to the Blue Flame. He goes into a coma and is presumed dead, and is buried. He actually goes into hibernation; in 1940 he awakens and fights crime and evil, both inside the US and abroad. He has super strength, invulnerability, and the ability to be transported underground to "new centres of crime." With each conquest 'The Blue Blaze' returns to the grave, and as he sleeps, a strange cosmic force moves him underground to a new centre of crime --- where he re-awakens.
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Name
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Blue Bolt
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Fred Parrish
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Twister / Sub-Zero / Lois Blake (Side-Kick)
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1st Appearance
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Blue Bolt #1
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Funnies Inc / Novelty Press Inc
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Country of origin
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USA
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Fred Parrish, a star football player at Harvard, is struck by lightning while practicing in a remote area. He climbs into a plane to fly for help but crashes the plane in a valley inside the earth. He is brought into a subterranean lab where Dr. Benton explains that he survived thanks to Benton's work (and some "radium deposits") and now has superpowers and that he needs to stop the invasion of the forces of the Green Sorceress. He does that and then returns to the surface to fight crime. He is partnered with Lois Blake, who has the same powers that Parrish does. He is capable of lightning projection, and he uses a "lightning gun."
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Name
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Blue Circle
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Len Stafford
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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 Circle Comics #1
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Year
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1944
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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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Len Stafford is a reformed crook waging war on the underworld. He is helped in this war by the Blue Circle Council, made up of like-minded "past masters in crime." The Blue Circle has no superpowers.
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Name
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Blue Diamond
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Elton T. Morrow
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Liberty Legion
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1st Appearance
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Daring Mystery Comics #7
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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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Elton Morrow, a science professor, discovers a large blue diamond during an Arctic expedition. On his way back to the U.S. his ship is attacked and sunk by a U-boat. Morrow is not killed, however, because the blue diamond exploded and embedded its shards in him, giving him superpowers. He uses his new powers to fight the Germans and crime. His powers were invulnerability because of the diamond in his skin and super strength.
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