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Name  Dakor the Magician
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Magician
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Mystic Comics Vol 1 #1
Year 1940
Publisher Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
Country of origin USA
Dakor is a magician and detective for hire. He was never given an origin. He is able to create illusions and transform objects.
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Name  Dale of the FBI
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Daring Mystery Comics #3
Year 1940
Publisher Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
Country of origin USA
Dale is the "ace investigator of the F.B.I." He has no superpowers, but can fly a plane and is tough and good in a fight.
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Name  Dan Dare (Pilot of the Future)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Colonel Daniel Macgregor Dare
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Eagle Comics #1
Year 1950
Publisher Hulton / Longacre / Odhams / IPC
Country of origin UK
Daniel Macgregor Dare, Colonel O.U. N Interplanet Space Fleet, was awarded the order of the United Nations for leadership in the Venus Expedition of 1996. Born on Feb 5 1967, in Manchester, England, educated at Rossall, he finished Cambridge and Harvard Universities and became a class 3 space pilot by the time he was 20. Two years after a planetary Exploration Course on the moon, he became chief pilot of the ISF at the age of 30. His hobbies are cricket, fencing, riding, painting and model making.
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Name  Dan Hastings
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Gloria Carter
1st Appearance Dynamic Comics #8
Year 1942
Publisher Harry 'A' Chesler Dynamic Publications
Country of origin USA
Dan is the personal rocket navigator for Dr. Carter and is in love with Carter s daughter Gloria."
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Name  Dan the Dyna-mite
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Daniel 'Danny' Dunbar
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team TNT & Dyna-Mite
1st Appearance Star-Spangled Comics #7
Year 1942
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Thomas "Tex" Thomas is a high school chemistry teacher who works on chemistry experiments with his friend and student, Dan Dunbar. They discover that they've been absorbing the chemicals and that when they come into contact with each other they create a big explosion which leaves them charged for a time with super-speed, strength, and invulnerability. They decide to put these powers to use as TNT and Dyna-Mite.
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Name  Dandy
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team Yankee Doodle Jones
1st Appearance Yankee Comics #1
Year 1941
Publisher Harry 'A' Chesler Dynamic Publications
Country of origin USA
Dandy is the side-kick of Yankee Doodle Jones. Jones was injected by an invincibility serum just as fifth columnists came and killed the scientist who had created this hero. The scientist's son, Dandy, upon seeing his father killed, also injected himself with the serum. The two were called upon by Uncle Sam himself to battle the foes of freedom and the U.S.A. This feature reflected the vitality and verve of the early Golden Age with one-liners flying as fast as fists.
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Name  Dane Jerrus: Agent one of the Interplanetary Police Force
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Super Duper Comics #8
Year 1948
Publisher Cartoon Art Productions
Country of origin UK
Righter of wrongs in the space ways of the future. He has super-strength.
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Name  Daredevil
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Bartholomew 'Bart' Hill
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team The Little Wise Guys
1st Appearance Silver Streak Comics #6
Year 1940
Publisher Lev Gleason Publications
Country of origin USA
Bart Hill was orphaned as a child by crooks who killed his father. They also tortured Bart, branding a boomerang-shaped scar into his chest. This renders Bart mute. He swears on his parents' grave that he will avenge them, and so puts himself in top shape and trains himself to be a master of the boomerang. He then goes out and fights crime, and eventually he regains his voice. He is assisted by his girlfriend, Tonia, and the youth gang known as the Little Wise Guys. Daredevil has no superpowers but is an outstanding hand-to-hand fighter and acrobat, and is, as mentioned, a master of the boomerang.
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Name  Dart (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Caius Wheeler (Martius)
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Ace Barlow The Amazing Boy
1st Appearance Weird Comics #5
Year 1940
Publisher Fox Features Syndicate
Country of origin USA
Caius Martius was a gladiator in Ancient Rome. The gods gave him the power to flight so that he might fight for the rights of the average citizen. Unfortunately, one day he took on a sorcerer and is trapped in a block of stone. In the modern era he emerges from the stone to find himself a museum piece. He takes a new last name, "Wheeler," and begins fighting crime in modern society.
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Name  Darwin Jones
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Strange Adventures #1
Year 1950
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Scientific Investigator Darwin Jones has been investigating unusual phenomena for the Department of Scientific Investigation since the 1950s.
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