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Name
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Firebird
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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 Pilot
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Tailspin (one-shot)
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Year
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1944
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Publisher
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Spotlight Publishers
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Country of origin
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USA details missing
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No information at present.
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Name
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Firebrand (1)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Rod Reilly
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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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Police Comics #1
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Quality Comics
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Country of origin
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USA
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Rod Reilly is bored with his playboy lifestyle and decides to become a crime fighter. He is assisted by Slugger Dunn, his ex-prize-fighter valet. Firebrand has no superpowers but is a skilled fighter and is good with a lariat. He also has vacuum cups for climbing buildings.
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Name
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Firebrand (2)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Ray O'Light
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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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All-New Comics #1 (All-New Short Stories #1 -3)
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Year
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1943
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Publisher
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Harvey Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Ray O'Light somehow acquires the power of "a million volts" in his body, so that he gains super strength, can deliver electrical shocks by touch, can glow in the dark, and can surround himself with an electrical force-field. He becomes the Firebrand and fights crime.
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Name
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Fire-Eater
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Mike O'Malley
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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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Choice Comics #1
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Great Comics Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Mike O'Malley, a fire eater with a circus, uses his skills to fight crime. He is helped by his nurse girlfriend Louise Peters. He has the power to eat, breathe and stop fire. He is totally immune to it!
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Name
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Firefly
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Harley Hudson
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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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Top-Notch Comics #8
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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MLJ /Archie Comics
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Country of origin
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USA
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Harley Hudson, a chemist/biologist/entomologist, is studying insects when he realizes that their strength and leaping ability, so much greater than their size, comes from their "wonderful muscular coordination." So he models himself on them and soon gains the same abilities, which he puts to use in fighting crime. He has superhuman strength, luminescence and leaping ability.
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Name
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Firehair
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Princess Smith /Lynn Cabot
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Type
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Non Costumed Archer
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Affiliation/Team
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Little Axe (Sioux Indian) Devil Eye (Horse)
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1st Appearance
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Rangers Comics #21
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Year
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1945
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Publisher
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Fiction House Magazines
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Country of origin
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USA
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A red-haired beauty that was raised by Sioux Indians only to become the "White Queen of the Indians". She looked great in a buckskin and seemed to be an expert in arrow-shooting, rowing, fighting, throwing knives, etc! She trapped animals and sold furs for a living, and often came across, and stopped characters out to exploit the Indians.
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Name
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Fireman
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Jim Reuben
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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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Liberty Scouts #2
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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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Jim Reuben gained the abilities to fly, control fire, and resist heat damage during a mad scientist's deranged experiment. He is made from flame-proof glass and is lighter than air. He used those abilities to fight crime as the Fire Man Association agency.
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Name
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First Batman (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Thomas Wayne
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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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Detective Comics #235
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Year
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1956 (Not Golden Age, but fun all the same)
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Publisher
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National Periodical Publications (DC)
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Country of origin
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USA
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Bruce Wayne finds an old bat-costume in a trunk that had been worn by his father Thomas Wayne. His father had been wearing the costume at a party that was interrupted by gangsters. Thomas Wayne stopped the crooks and later testified against gang leader, Lew Moxon. Moxon went to prison, but when he was released he hired Joey Chill to kill Thomas Wayne.
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Name
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Flag (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Jim Courtney
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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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Our Flag Comics #2
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Year
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1941
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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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Jim is found as an infant on the doorstep of John Courtney, a crippled war veteran and flag maker. John discovers that Jim has an American flag birthmark, and on his 21st birthday Jim is told (by the ghosts of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, no less!) that he has "the speed of the wind and the strength of a 100 men" as well as invulnerability to all weapons. He leaves a star-spangled trail behind him when he runs. Jim uses these powers to fight enemies of America.
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Name
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Flag-Man
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A.K.A.
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Captain /Major Hornet
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Secret ID.
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Captain Hornet
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Rusty (1)(Side-Kick)
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1st Appearance
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Captain Aero 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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Captain (later Major) Hornet puts on a costume to fight those enemies who cannot be dealt with by military regulations and law. He is active both on the home-front as well as in the South Pacific against the Japanese. He is assisted by Rusty. He is a killer vigilante. He has no superpowers.
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