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Name
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Hooded Wasp (The)
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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 Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Wasplet (1)
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1st Appearance
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Shadow Comics Vol 1 #7
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Street & Smith
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Country of origin
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USA
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He fought crime. His partner was the Wasplet. He could fly.
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Name
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Hourman
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Rex Tyler
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Justice Society of America
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1st Appearance
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Adventure Comics #48
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Year
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1940
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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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Rex Tyler, a humble worker at a chemical plant, invents Miraclo, a formula which gives him superpowers for one hour. He puts on a costume and uses his abilities to fight crime and evil. He is partnered by Jimmy Martin and later the Minute-Men, a group of costumed youths who also take Miraclo. Under the influence of Miraclo he has super strength, speed, leaping ability, and invulnerability.
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Name
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Human Bomb (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Roy Lincoln
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Thunderfoot / The Bombardiers
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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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Roy Lincoln, a chemist, is helping his father develop X-24, a super explosive, when enemy agents attack the laboratory to steal the formula. Roy's father is shot dead and Roy is forced to swallow the super explosive liquid to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. Rather than being blown up, however, he begins to glow, and finds that not only to bullets bounce off of him but that when he punches or just touches something it blows up. He makes a suit of "fibro-wax" which is immune to his explosion power and wears that as he fights crime. He is assisted by Hustace Throckmorton and later by the Bombardiers.
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Name
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Human Meteor (1) (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Duke O'Dowd
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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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Champion Comics #6 (as Duke) #8 (as Human Meteor)
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Year
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1939
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Publisher
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Worth Publishing Co /Harvey Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Duke O'Dowd, a taxi driver, is working as a member of the Foreign Legion in Bavakuria when he meets Wah Le, the ancient ruler of that Tibet-like country. Wah Le gives Duke a magic belt, which Duke uses to fight crime back in the United States. Duke is assisted by shoeshine boy Toby, who knows of the Human Meteor's civilian identity. Duke has no superpowers, but the belt gives him super strength and super-speed as well as stopping metal via a "contra-magnetic field" from harming men. The field is vulnerable to wood, however.
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Name
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Human Meteor (2) (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Dash' (Dashford) Dartwell
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Type
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Non Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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As Dash, Amazing-Man Comics #21 / As Human Meteor, Amazing-Man Comics #22
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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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Dashford Dartwell was given a super-speed (metabo-catalyst pill) serum by one of his professors, college athlete Dash used it to win an inter-college track meet, and later to fight crime.
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Name
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Human Top (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Bruce Bravelle
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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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Red Raven Comics #1 (of 1)
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
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Country of origin
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USA
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Bruce Bravelle is being subjected a series of experiments when he's accidentally dosed with lightning; this gives him the ability to spin like a top when he crosses his wrists. He relies upon Professor Raymore, the man whose experiments gave him his powers, to provide him with "jobs" that is, opportunities to do good and fight crime.
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Name
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Human Torch
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Android /Jim Hammond
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Toro / Sungirl / All-Winners Squad / V-Battalion
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1st Appearance
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Marvel Comics #1
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Year
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1939
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Publisher
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Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
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Country of origin
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USA
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Professor Phineas Horton creates "a synthetic man, an exact replica of a human being," which bursts into flames when exposed to air; the android breaks free from Horton's control and eventually decides to become a crime-fighter, adopting the identity of Jim Hammond. He discovered a boy with a natural immunity to flame and took him on as his sidekick Toro. In late 1948 Toro was dropped for a new sidekick, Sun Girl. He was also a member of the All-Winners Squad.
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Name
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Hunchback
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Alan Lanier
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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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Wow Comics #2
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Fawcett Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Playboy Alan Lanier puts on the horrific costume of a hunchback to track down and eradicate crime.
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Name
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Hurricane (Master of Speed)
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A.K.A.
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(Major) Mercury
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Secret ID.
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Makkari
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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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Captain America Comics #1
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
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Country of origin
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USA
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A member of the sub-species The Eternals, Makkari was born around 2500 BC and at an early age became fascinated with the pursuit of speed. Little is known of his first few millennia of life but in 1940 he went by his ruler Zuras to oppose the Deviant Warlord Kro, who had become dictator of Prussland as Rudolph Hendler. He has super-human speed of Mach-3 level as well as other Eternal powers, including superhuman strength and agility, invulnerability to conventional injury, projection of cosmic energy from his eyes and hands, flight, atomic transformation, telepathy, illusion-casting, and teleportation.
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Name
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Hurricane Hanson, Sea Adventurer
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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None
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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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Slam Bang Comics #1
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Fawcett Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Hurricane Hansen, young American sea-adventurer, joins the British Navy when that country declares war on Kazilia. He attains the rank of Captain and is put in command of a sea raider.
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