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Name  Chipper
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Non Costumed Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team The Reckoner
1st Appearance Terrific Comics #5
Year 1944
Publisher Continental Magazines Inc
Country of origin USA
The Reckoner's non-super-powered side-kick
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Name  Chuck Magnon, Immortal Man
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Red Dragon Comics #9
Year 1944
Publisher Street & Smith
Country of origin USA
Chuck Magnon was a Cro-Magnon man who was struck by lightning 100,000 years ago. Instead of killing him, it somehow made him immortal. He s roamed the world picking up the knowledge of ancient Atlantis, Greece, and Rome. To put all that accumulated knowledge to good use he set up an office as "C. Ro-Magnon, Questions Answered.".
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Name  Citizen Smith, Son of the Unknown Soldier
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Unknown
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Captain Fearless #1
Year 1941
Publisher Helnit Publishing Co / Holyoke
Country of origin USA details missing
The son of the Unknown Soldier ran around in rumpled slacks and shirt, righting wrongs
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Name  Citizen V
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. John Watkins
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team V-Battalion
1st Appearance Daring Mystery Comics #8
Year 1942
Publisher Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
Country of origin USA
Lieutenant John Watkins, a British soldier thought killed during the Dunkirk retreat, is appointed by his superior to go into the occupied countries and "rally the conquered peoples to strike back at the aggressors!" He puts on the costume of Citizen V and carries on a guerrilla war. He has no powers.
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Name  Claw (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Costumed Villain
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Silver Streak Comics #1
Year 1941
Publisher Lev Gleason Publications
Country of origin USA
One day Mei Ting came to see Zola for her hand in marriage. Furious at his proposal, Zola tried to stab him to death; during the fray he yanks off her veil, revealing the woman's fangs. To keep her deformity a secret, she married Mei Ting. Disappearing for many months, they shocked the villagers by jumping off a cliff. Searching the dead couples mansion the villagers found a horrible infant inside. The decided to bring him up as one of their own. Named the Claw because of his deformed hands, the Claw was a terror, brutalizing other children and adults alike. He ended up in prison in Tibet. there he grew stronger and larger each day until he reached the height of 100 feet. Breaking out and slaying his captors, he found he could control his height, becoming human-sized or gigantic at will.
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Name  Cliff Cornwall Special Agent
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Flash Comics #1
Year 1940
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Cornwall is a special agent for the FBI. He takes on various tasks, most of them counter-espionage- and sabotage-related. He is helped by Lys Valliere, his girlfriend and a good pilot and fighter. Cliff has no superpowers but is a good all-around agent, pilot, and fighter.
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Name  Cloak (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Jeff Cardiff
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Big Shot Comics #1
Year 1940
Publisher Columbia Comic Corporation
Country of origin USA
Jeff Cardiff, was a spy for the U.S. He fights foreign spies and saboteurs. He has no powers.
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Name  Clock (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Brian O'Brien
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Butch / Pug
1st Appearance Funny Pages Vol 1 #6 (1st issue)
Year 1936
Publisher Centaur Publications
Country of origin USA
Brian O'Brien, a former All-American fullback and champion polo player, is outraged at the widespread crime in the city of Chicago, so he retires from his job as District Attorney and devotes his time to crime fighting, making criminals' time run out as the Clock. He is helped by a young woman named Butch and a former boxer named Pug Brady (His double). He has no superpowers but is in great shape and is an excellent fighter. The Clock is the first masked comic book hero. He usually left a calling card with an image of a clock and the words "The Clock Has Struck."
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Name  Clown (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Nick Nolan
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Spitfire Comics #1
Year 1941
Publisher Harvey Publications
Country of origin USA
Police Commissioner Nick Nolan, fights crime disguised as a clown. He has no powers.
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Name  Club of Heroes
A.K.A. N/A
Secret ID. (See separate listings)
Type Costumed Team
Affiliation/Team Club of Heroes
1st Appearance World's Finest Comics #89
Year 1957 (Not Golden Age, but fun all the same)
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
The Club of Heroes consisted of Batman & Robin, Superman, Knight & Squire, The Ranger (Australia), The Musketeer (France), The Legionary (Italy), The Gaucho (South America) and Lightning Man (Superman, with amnesia, under the spell of a small piece of Kryptonite circling the Earth)
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