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Name
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Lando, Man (Master) of Magic
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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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Magician
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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World's Best Comics #1 (One shot)
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Year
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1941
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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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Lando, Man of Magic, is a stage magician as well as the "greatest of magicians." He travels around both the US and abroad, his powers a warning and threat against all evildoers. He is not a backwards-talking magician, but can simply do his magic without incantations.
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Name
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Lanie Lane (Superman's Daughter)
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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 heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Superman #215
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Year
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1969
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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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Superman (not Clark Kent) married Lois Lane and had a daughter together, named Lanie. Lois was killed and Lanie was taken to another dimension to live out her days with a parallel Superman and Lois.
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Name
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Lars of Mars
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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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Lars of Mars #10
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Year
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1951
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Publisher
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Ziff-Davis Publication Co
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Country of origin
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USA
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After the Martians had seen an atomic bomb detonated on our planet, Lars of Mars is sent to Earth to stop evil from taking over the Earth, and fear that Earth could easily become a threat to Universal peace. Earth doesn't know that Martians exist. When Lars arrives on Earth he sees a woman being attacked by two robots, and flies down and attacks them. He finds the robots are not real, just acting out a role, and he's mistaken for a wanna-be actor auditioning for a part in a new TV series about, coincidently a man from Mars. Lars realises that this would be a great undercover alibi, and so he gets the job, and plays the hero for real! (two issues only)
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Name
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Laughing Mask
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A.K.A.
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Purple Mask
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Secret ID.
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Dennis Burton
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None / In 2008 became a member of Marvel's The Twelve.
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1st Appearance
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Daring Mystery Comics #2 (Only Appearance)
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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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Dennis Burton, a young Assistant D.A. from a long line of law enforcement officers, saw that it had become too difficult to convict gangsters, so he decided to take the law into his own hands, put on a glowing laughing mask, and with two .45s fight crime in his own way. After this appearance he changed his name to the Purple Mask. Apart from his athleticism, he has no powers, and is definitely a killer vigilante, even shooting a bound and helpless gangster.
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Name
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Leatherface
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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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Unknown
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Cat.man Comics #26
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Year
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1944
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Publisher
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Holyoke / Tem Publishing
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Country of origin
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USA details missing
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Only appearance.
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Name
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Legion of 100 Archers
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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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Non Costumed Archer
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Affiliation/Team
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Legion of 100 Archers
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1st Appearance
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Adventure Comics #189
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Year
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1953
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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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Green Arrows of the World wasn't the only crime-fighting archery club Green Arrow belonged to. He was also voted in as a member of the Legion of 100 Archers. Poor Speedy, though, got blackballed and wasn't allowed to join. (All part of a cunning plan of Green Arrow's; Speedy, of course, was voted in at the end of the story.) Copper
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Name
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Leopard Girl
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Gwen
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Type
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Jungle Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Jungle Action #1
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Year
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1954
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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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Leopard Girl was a jungle queen who wore a full-body leopard skin, complete with a leopard-head on her head, ala Hercules with his lion skin. In her civilian identity she was mild-mannered "Gwen," an assistant to the noted scientist and philosopher Dr. Hans Kreitzer, who is in the jungle doing "research." But when evil threatens, Gwen slips away, lets her blonde hair down, and changes into Leopard Girl. Dr. Kreitzer and his assistant Peter are relatively intrepid, always curious and trying to investigate the curiosities of the jungle, but they inevitably get themselves in trouble and need Leopard Girl to rescue them.
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Name
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Lex Brand
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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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Non Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Lex Brand #1
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Year
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1947
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Publisher
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Bell Studio
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Country of origin
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Holland
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A Dutch detective comic. From Beeldromans (Picture Novels) which are small violent little books that were produced in Holland.
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Name
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Lex Luthor
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Alexei Luthor
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Type
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Non Costumed Villain
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Action Comics # 23
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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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The bald-headed Luthor has been Superman's main foe for most of the superhero's existence and has unveiled countless plots to destroy him and take over the world. Originally Luthor was a mad scientist but has since been rewritten as a Machiavellian industrialist and white-collar criminal. Although Superman clearly considers Luthor one of the world's greatest scientists, despite the fact that he is a criminal, the Man of Steel has also described Luthor as a "madman" and a "fiend" and numbered him among the world's worst villains.
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Name
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Liberator (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Dr. Nelson Drew
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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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Exciting Comics #15
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Nedor/Better/ Standard Comics
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Country of origin
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USA
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Dr. Nelson Drew, a "bookworm professor" at Calflin University, discovers the long-lost ancient Egyptian "Lamesis formula." He makes the formula and drinks it, and gains superpowers. Naturally, he decides to fight crime with it, although he is forced to maintain a cowardly front as Nelson Drew, which earns him the criticism of his girlfriend Annabel. When he takes the Lamesis formula he has super strength.
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