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Name  Mr. X
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Les Manners
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance The Dandy #272
Year 1944
Publisher D.C. Thompson
Country of origin UK
Les Manners is a Private Detective. When he's Mr X he has super-strength.
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Name  Mrs. Lois Superman
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Lois Lane
Type Costumed Heroine
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #51
Year
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin U.S.A.
Wife of Superman. Grandmother of Superman III
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Name  Muscleman
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Blinky
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Three Stooges
1st Appearance All-Flash #13
Year 1943
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Winky, Blinky and Noddy were a trio of Three Stooges look-alikes who served as comic relief for the Golden-Age Flash. Variously referred to as the “Three Numbskulls,?“Three Idiots,?or, most often, the “Three Dimwits,?they were friends of the Flash, Jay Garrick, and Joan Williams. Blinky had a brief stint as the super-hero Muscleman
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Name  Music Master
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. John Wallace
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Downbeat
1st Appearance Reg'lar Fellas #12
Year 1942
Publisher Eastern Color Printing
Country of origin USA
John Wallace, a music teacher and concert violinist, finds the "musical pipes of death," and uses these fabled instruments to fight crime. He is assisted by the prissy, glasses-wearing kid 'Downbeat'. The pipes allow the Music Master to fly whenever he hears a certain note played on a musical instrument, can use notes as a force-field or solidified weapon, and can send the notes to carry out his orders.
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Name  Mysta (of the Moon)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Ana Thane
Type Costumed Heroine
Affiliation/Team Bron (Robot)
1st Appearance Planet Comics #35
Year 1945
Publisher Fiction House Magazines
Country of origin USA
Mysta is a heroine who began her life as an infant stolen from a plex-iplastic crib by a Dr. Kort. Kort educated her using a hyno-transmitter. Located on the moon she used a scanno lens to see trouble anywhere, and with the help of her robot Bron, she fights for good, normally against the villain Mars.
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Name  Mysterious Traveller
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Mysterious Traveller #1 (One shot)
Year 1948
Publisher Trans-World Publications
Country of origin USA
The 'Mysterious Traveller' radio program was so popular that a comic book was inevitable. Except for Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell Tale Heart, the other stories are un-credited but written as told by The Mysterious Traveller himself. There are several references to The Mutual Broadcasting Network and ads for The Mysterious Traveller radio program throughout the comic. A later series of comic books with the same name and similar themes was published by Charlton Comics in the 1950's and 60's but had no direct connection to the radio program.
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Name  Mystico the Wonder Man
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Magician
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Startling Comics #1
Year 1940
Publisher Nedor/Better/ Standard Comics
Country of origin USA
Mystico is a mummy which is stolen from its museum by a mad scientist, who then tries his life-restoring "vita-ray" on the mummy. The mad scientist, though, has the vita-ray turned up too high, and it explodes, destroying the scientist's lab and killing the scientist. Mystico is brought to life, though, and decides to fight crime. He has various plot-necessity magical powers.
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Name  Mysto the Great
A.K.A. Superman
Secret ID. Superman / Clark Kent
Type Magician
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Superman #111
Year 1957
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
An alias employed by Superman when he poses as a stage magician capable of producing Superman from an empty cabinet and forcing him to perform super-stunts as part of an elaborate scheme to catch a criminal.
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Name  Mysto the Magician Detective
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Richard 'Rick' Carter
Type Magician
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Detective Comics #203
Year 1954
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Mysto was a magician, a detective and a pilot.
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