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Name  G-2, (The Unknown )
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Don Leash
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance National Comics #27
Year 1942
Publisher Quality Comics
Country of origin USA
G-2, aka Don Leash, was a top secret agent for the U.S. government.
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Name  Gargoyle (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Dan Collins
Type Unknown
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Captain Aero Comics #4
Year 1941
Publisher Holyoke Publications
Country of origin USA details missing
Dan Collins, a playboy fashion plate, fights crime in top hat and tails. He has no superpowers, although he does have guns.
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Name  Garry
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Garry
Type Costumed Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team Speed Gale
1st Appearance Super Duper Comics #1
Year 1946
Publisher Cartoon Art Productions
Country of origin UK
Garry is the youthful lab assistant and sidekick to Speed Gale. When the call comes for help Garry takes the secret formula alongside Speed and gains powers of flight and super strength.
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Name  Gary Brent
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Weird Comics #1
Year 1940
Publisher Fox Features Syndicate
Country of origin USA
Dashing heroic type who rushes in at the last minute and saves the heroine. Carries a gun. Dread nemesis of arch criminal Dr. Mortal
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Name  Gary Gaunt
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Mystic Comics Vol 1 #9
Year 1942
Publisher Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
Country of origin USA
Noted criminologist and all-round good guy, Gary Gaunt, still woozy, after having a car accident arranged by a gang of mobsters; accidentally drinks a chemical formula and is transformed into a nocturnal violent monster. He then searched for a cure with help of his girlfriend Jean Carson. Basically a Jekyll and Hyde story.
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Name  Gay Ghost
A.K.A. The Grim Ghost
Secret ID. Keith Everett / Charles Collins
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Sensation Comics #1
Year 1942
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Keith Everet, the Earl of Strethmere in Ireland in the year 1700, is riding to Ulster to visit his love, Deborah Wallace, when he is shot and killed. His spirit is met by his ancestors, who send him back to earth to avenge the evil that men do. But he can t return to Earth until Deborah dies for good and she keeps being reincarnated. Finally, in 1941, Charles Collins, the boyfriend of Deborah Wallace s direct descendant, is killed, and Keith, not able to wait any more, enters Charles body and reanimates it. He goes on to fight evil and spies. He can fly, has super-strength, can become immaterial, and has other plot-device powers.
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Name  General Jumbo
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Alfie "Jumbo" Johnson
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Beano #584
Year 1953
Publisher DC Thompson
Country of origin UK
Twelve year old Alfie Johnson of Dinchester, nicknamed Jumbo by his friends because of his plump, hefty figure, followed his football over a wall. On the other side he is attacked by a tiny RAF jet and a squadron of small tanks, part of an experimental mini-robot army being built by the inventor Professor Carter. When the Professor is saved from being run over, he rewarded Alfie with the position of General of his remote control army.
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Name  Ghost (1) (The)
A.K.A. Green Ghost
Secret ID. George Chance
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Thrilling Comics #3
Year 1940
Publisher Nedor/Better/ Standard Comics
Country of origin USA
The ghost is an old school pulp hero. Raised in the circus by an trapeze artist mother, and an animal handler father, he picks up all manner of unusual skills. ventriloquism, contortionism, acrobatics, knife throwing, makeup, etc. thus making him a practitioner of certain 'yogic' skills. George subsequently dies, and his yogic skills permit him to maintain a presence on the earthly plane, as the Ghost.
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Name  Ghost (2) (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Brad Hendricks
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Daredevil Comics #5
Year 1941
Publisher Lev Gleason Publications
Country of origin USA
Brad Hendricks fought against the Germans in occupied Europe. He had no superpowers, but did have a ghost plane. He mainly fought Daredevil's old enemy the Claw.
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Name  Ghost of Flanders (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Rip Graves
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Hit Comics #18
Year 1941
Publisher Quality Comics
Country of origin USA
Rip Graves fought against the Germans in occupied Europe. He has above-average (but not superhuman) strength but no superpowers.
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