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Name
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Liberty
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Cover character only
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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 Comics #10
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Year
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1946
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Publisher
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Green Publications
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Country of origin
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Canada
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No two copies of Liberty Comics are the same -you never knew which remaindered comics would be re-bound on the inside, or even which publisher they'd be from! Also there were no issues #2 to 4 or #6 to 9 of Liberty Comics (See Double-Up, Weekender and Green Light characters)
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Name
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Liberty Belle
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Elizabeth 'Libby' Lawrence
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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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Boy Commandos # 1
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Year
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1942
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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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Reporter Libby Belle Lawrence is a native of Warsaw and is forced to flee from Poland and then Holland when the Germans invade. She comes to America, famous for having swum the English Channel during her escape from France, and becomes a reporter. While visiting the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia she is given a replica of the bell. She is moved enough by the Bell that she feels the need to do more than just report the news. She puts on a costume and wears the replica as a belt buckle; when crime threatens Tom Revere, the man who gave Lawrence the bell replica, rings the real Liberty Bell, which causes Libby's belt buckle to vibrate. She has no superpowers but is a strong fighter.
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Name
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Lieutenant Hercules
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Wilbur Klutz
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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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Green Lama #1
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Year
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1944
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Publisher
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Spark / Fact & Fiction Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Lanky, potbellied, bespectacled Wilbur Klutz is a superhero for hire. He performs his super heroics in red long johns and a yellow cape. He has "hundreds of abilities," including super-strength, super-speed, super-wisdom, and the ability to fly.
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Name
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Lieutenant Marvels
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Billy Batson
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Type
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Costumed Team
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Affiliation/Team
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Marvel Family
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1st Appearance
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Whiz Comics #21
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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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There were the Three Lieutenant Marvels. A radio contest introduced Billy Batson (by this time a boy radio announcer for WHIZ radio) to three other young boys with the same name (one a tall boy from Texas, one fat one from Brooklyn, and one from the South. (Tall Billy, Fat Billy and Hill Billy.) As you might expect, soon enough they were all in harm s way, tied to logs in a sawmill with the buzzing blades drowning out Billy s voice. They added their voice to his, and SHAZAM! Tall Marvel, Fat Marvel and Hillbilly Marvel were born. Only works if all three were to say the magic word, "SHAZAM!", in unison.
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Name
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Lightning (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Fred Larkin
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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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Jumbo Comics #14
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Year
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1941
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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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Fred Larkin, a career soldier and son of a general, has gained the ability to fire electricity from his fingers, as well as being in possession of super strength and speed. He uses these abilities to fight crime and evil.
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Name
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Lightning Girl
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Isabel Blake
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Type
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Costumed Side-Kick
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Affiliation/Team
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Flash /Lash Lightning
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1st Appearance
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Lightning Comics Vol 3 #1
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Year
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1942
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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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Isabel Blake, a friend of Lash Lightning, is given his powers when the almost unconscious Lash accidentally pumps "thousands of volts" of electricity through her body. Instead of killing her it gives her his powers. She a variety of super abilities, including flight, electricity generation, radiating "lightning heat," and super-speed. She becomes Lash's sidekick. She can also track Lash via their shared "lightning impulses." She is recharged by electricity.
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Name
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Lightning Man
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A.K.A.
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Superman
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Secret ID.
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Superman / Clark Kent
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Club of Heroes
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1st Appearance
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World's Finest Comics #89
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Year
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1957 (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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Lightning Man was actually an Kryptonite / amnesia induced Superman. A small piece of Kryptonite was circling the Earth, and every time it was over Metropolis it knocked Clark Kent into a dazed stupor, but his Super-self would fight the condition and he would then turn into Lightning Man. The First time this happened he was in his apartment and unknowingly used the Curtian material as his costume. Batman the world's greatest detective only took the whole issue to work this out. Lightning Man had pretty much all of Superman's powers.
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Name
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Litening, Son of the Gods
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Dave Terry
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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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Big Flame Wonder Comic
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Year
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1948
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Publisher
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Scion Ltd
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Country of origin
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UK
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The story of a young man, who was favoured by the gods to combat the forces of evil." An old man observes Dave Terry saving a cat from the jaws of a stray dog, and approaches him afterwards, saying "You are the man I have been looking for, a man with goodness in his heart and the courage to pit his strength against the forces of evil. He takes Dave through clouds of swirling vapour to the home of the gods, "where he is given great powers to aid him in his fight against evil". They give him a clasp to wear around his throat, embossed with a lightning flash, as a symbol of their power, and send him home to battle evil. He was able to fly extremely fast, had super-strength and was bullet-proof.
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Name
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Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Thomas 'Tommy' Rogers, 'Tubby' Mehlville & 'Toughy' Simms
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Type
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Costumed Team
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Affiliation/Team
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Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys
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1st Appearance
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Sensation Comics #1
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Year
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1942
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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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Tommy Rogers, the son of the District Attorney, overhears his father talking about the trouble he's having with criminals. Tommy gets together with his friends (Fellow students) Tubby and Toughy, and they put on costumes and fight crime as Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys. Little Boy Blue and the blue boys have no super-powers.
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Name
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Little Giant
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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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O.K. Comics #1
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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United Features Syndicate
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Country of origin
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USA
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A younger version of the Atom, (shrinking and growing powers) with Super-strength.
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