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Name  Eagle (1) (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Captain Bill Powers
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Buddy (Side-Kick)
1st Appearance Science Comics #1
Year 1940
Publisher Fox Features Syndicate
Country of origin USA
Bill Powers, a true American patriot, fought the Germans as a spy and then put on a flag-coloured costume and fought against them and their American sympathizers as the Eagle. He was assisted by Buddy. He had wings and could fly; later he lost the wings but could fly via his suit. (which he seems to have changed in every issue)
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Name  Eagle (2) (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Robert 'Bob' Gray
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Master (One shot)
Year 1941
Publisher Frank Johnson Productions
Country of origin Australia
Robert Gray is a reporter who is able to fly through use of winged costume. Armed with a ray gun, talon like gloves, and with a sleeping gas device hidden in the hood of his mask.
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Name  Eaglet
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Bud Pierce
Type Costumed Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team American Eagle
1st Appearance Exciting Comics #22
Year 1942
Publisher Nedor/Better/ Standard Comics
Country of origin USA
American Eagle's side-kick! The American Eagle was in reality a young scientist named Tom Standish who worked for the government. A mysterious black ray endowed both him and his young pal Bud Pierce with the flying and fighting qualities of America's national bird.
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Name  Earth Man
A.K.A. N/A
Secret ID. None
Type Unknown
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Supersnipe Comics #20
Year 1945
Publisher Street & Smith
Country of origin USA details missing
Only appearance
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Name  Echo (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Jim Carson
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Yankee Comics #1
Year 1941
Publisher Harry 'A' Chesler Dynamic Publications
Country of origin USA
Jim Carson, a professional ventriloquist and amateur sleuth, fights crime by throwing his voice around corners and the like. He is assisted by his wife Cora and his brother, Dr. Doom, a chemist. He has no superpowers beyond his ventriloquism. He was fortunate to find an invisibility belt (and later a paralysing ring) without which he would have had a difficult time fighting crime.
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Name  El Carim, Master of Magic
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Magician
Affiliation/Team Gladys
1st Appearance Master Comics #1
Year 1940
Publisher Fawcett Publications
Country of origin USA
"El Carim, Master of Magic, whose name is 'Miracle,' backwards, is visited by the spirit of Wizzar, the father of all magic, ( he appears to be a ghostly Buddhist monk) and whose cloak of magic might has descended on El Carim. Uses his cloak and his backwards-recited magic to fight crime and evil. El Carim is assisted by the lovely Gladys.
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Name  El Kuraan (The Desert Eagle)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Jahn
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Red Circle Comics #3
Year 1945
Publisher Enwil Associates / Rural Home
Country of origin USA
When an engineer discovers oil in the region of Santar, an unscrupulous Egyptian pasha attempts to capitalize on the American s lack of knowledge of the region by driving the Santar tribe off their land. Jahn, the chief s son, adopts a makeshift mask and traditional Arab garb to become El Kuraan and successfully leads his people in taking back their land from the Pasha. El Kuraan has no special powers, but is an excellent fighter and horseman. (Thanks to Mark Carlson)
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Name  Electric Ray
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Ray (No surname)
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Amazing Man Comics #26
Year 1942
Publisher Centaur Publications
Country of origin USA
Ray stops a team of saboteurs from wreaking a elecrical generator factory, slips and falls into a generator which gives him electrical powers.
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Name  Electro
A.K.A. Dynamo (from #2 onwards)
Secret ID. Jim Andrews
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Science Comics #1
Year 1940
Publisher Fox Features Syndicate
Country of origin USA
Jim Andrews discovers that he has electrical superpowers and uses them to fight crime. After his initial appearance he changed his name from Electro to Dynamo. He can project electricity from his hands and electrocute people by touch.
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Name  Electro the Robot
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. n/a
Type Robot
Affiliation/Team Prof Zog / In 2008 became a member of Marvel's The Twelve.
1st Appearance Marvel Mystery Comics #4
Year 1939
Publisher Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
Country of origin USA
Professor Philo Zog creates a robot--Electro--with which he hopes to work for the good of mankind. Zog then recruits 12 men who he plans to use as operatives to banish evil and crime. He tells them to use Electro if and when they need him, by summoning him with a tiny wireless phone. Electro has super strength, can run over 100 miles per hour, and perform Hulk-leaps, and is invulnerable to bullets and cannon-fire.
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