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Name  Kismet (Man of Fate)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Bomber Comics #1
Year 1944
Publisher Elliott Publications
Country of origin USA
Kismet is a freedom fighter who hides out in the forests of Southern France and battles the Nazi occupiers.
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Name  Kitten
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Katie Conn
Type Costumed Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team Catman / Little Leaders
1st Appearance Cat.man Comics #5
Year 1941
Publisher Holyoke / Tem Publishing
Country of origin USA
Katie Conn is an eleven-year-old girl whose parents are killed in a train wreck. She is adopted by David Merrywether, aka Cat-Man. Katie is already a trained acrobat, so it's a relatively simple thing to train her to fight crime and then make her his sidekick. He puts her in a cat costume and calls her Kitten.
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Name  Kitty Kelly (The Yankee Girl)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Heroine
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Red Seal Comics #17
Year 1946
Publisher Harry 'A' Chesler Dynamic Publications
Country of origin USA
Kitty was a costumed heroine with super-strength. Other appearances of the "Kitty Kelly" strip feature her as an airline hostess. The same publisher later came up with a second Yankee Girl
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Name  Knight (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Radio Comics #1
Year 1940's
Publisher Jules Feiffer
Country of origin USA
Jules Feiffer's childhood effort at copying the Superhero Genre. He also created "Snap Allen and Corky! Radio Riley! Buddy Brandon! The Snowman! Officer Carson!"
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Name  Krakos the Egyptian
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Krakos
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance New Funnies
Year 1941
Publisher Gerald D Swan ltd
Country of origin UK
An elderly Egyptian man burned sacred herbs in the hidden temple of Tanis, transforming himself into a super-powered younger man, who then travelled to London to fight the Nazis. In London he was met by his servant, Yusef, and he begins to fight crime in the foggy streets of the capital. Powers include flight, magic and a power which could burn anything it touched
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Name  Kral of Titan
A.K.A. Superboy replacement? 2nd Superboy?
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Adventure Comics #205
Year 1954
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Kral was a native of Titan, Saturn's large moon. When Kral and Kal-El were boys, Kral was sent by the rulers of Titan, who were tyrants to check out Earth for conquest, and to see if Superboy had an Achilles heel. Kral, who had powers of his own, duly learned of Superboy's Kryptonite weakness. But he also learned of the Boy of Steel's nobility and selflessness, the generosity of the Kent family towards a stranger Clark had brought home, and the realization that, despite its wars, crime, and inequities, Terran society was really a lot better than Titan's.
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Name  Krypton Girl
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Lois Lane
Type Costumed heroine
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Superman's Girlfriend #47
Year 1964
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Lois Lane, In an imaginary story, comes to Earth from Krypton and becomes the mighty superhero Krypton Girl! Legion of Super-Heroes members Saturn Girl and Sun Boy send Night Girl to help Lois Lane conceal her secret identity from Clark Kent Supermanica
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Name  Krypton Kid
A.K.A. The Kid from Krypton
Secret ID. Zar-Al
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Adventure Comics #242
Year 1957
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Zar-Al, a Kryptonian teenager, is sent by his father in a time-ship to Earth in the future, where Jor-El will send Kal-El, in order to find a supply of Zeelium, the only element that can dampen Krypton s uranium core. On Earth, he arrives in Superboy s time, and becomes known as the Krypton Kid. He becomes a friend to Superboy, but neither of them can discover any Zeelium. To keep Superboy from sacrificing himself by going into the past, Zar-Al decoys him to another planet, and returns to Krypton in the past with the time-ship, dying alongside of his father.
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