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Name
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Master Mystic
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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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Green Giant Comics (One shot)
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Pelican Publications
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Country of origin
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USA details missing
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6 page story. Only appearance.
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Name
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Masterman
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Bobby Fletcher
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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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Masterman Comic #1
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Year
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1952
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Publisher
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United Anglo-American Book Co/ Streamline
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Country of origin
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UK
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Californian school Boy Bobby Fletcher was the son of an oil magnate, who had somehow laid his hands on the Ring of Fate. When this ring was rubbed while saying "O Ring of Fate, I call upon you to help me to fight for freedom and justice" it would transform the bespectacled youth into Masterman.
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Name
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Maxwell the Mighty (The 1000 horse power human)
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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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Prang Comic (one shot)
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Year
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1948
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Publisher
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Hotspur Publishing Co. Ltd
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Country of origin
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UK
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Maxwell can fly, has super-speed, is super-strong and unbothered by either fire or electricity, No origin is given, and he appears to be in the phone book, as he received a phone call from somebody who needs his help in the first panel. Maxwell was also known for his odd and sometimes out-of-place exclamations, such as yelling "Jemima!" while wrestling a giant snake. He often helped out his landlady, Mrs. Reed and his secretary, Miss Dent.
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Name
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Mekano
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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n/a
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Type
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Robot
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Wonder Comics #1
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Year
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1945
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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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Young scientist Bill Foster, invents a mechanical man who is almost human, but the Nazis steal him and plan to use him as a weapon. Mekano beats the Germans and returns home to Bill Foster. Only appearance
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Name
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Menace (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Dennis Temple
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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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K.O. Comics #1
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Year
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1945
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Publisher
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Gerona Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Sometime actor and sometime private eye Dennis Temple is the most hated man in the movie business. (He often plays the bad guy) His girlfriend Rita Wilson, a blonde bombshell of an actress, is far more popular than Temple. In fact, Rita would be astonished to know that Dennis is secretly the crime-fighter known as the Menace. Dennis has no powers but is a good fighter, and uses a variety of gadgets. (Never been known as Dennis the Menace!)
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Name
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Mental-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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None
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1st Appearance
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Action Comics #196
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Year
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1954
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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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Lois Lane creates an imaginary character (to start with) who appears in The Daily Planet as a comic strip, then he suddenly starts appearing in the real world as a competitor to Superman. Later it's revealed that Mental-Man is really Superman in disguise...
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Name
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Mercury
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A.K.A.
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Meteor
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Secret ID.
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Mickey O'Toole
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Type
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Costumed Side-Kick
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Affiliation/Team
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Silver Streak
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1st Appearance
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Silver Streak Comics #11
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Lev Gleason Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Mickey O'Toole is in need of a blood transfusion and is given blood by the Silver Streak. Because of the "secret fluid" in the Streak's blood, Mickey gains the Streak's powers, and becomes first Mercury and then the Meteor, the Streak's sidekick. The Meteor has super-speed and can fly.
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Name
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Mercury (Major)
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A.K.A.
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Hurricane
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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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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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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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Merlin The Magician
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Jock Kellogg
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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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National Comics #1
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Year
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1940
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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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No stranger to drawing magical superheroes, Guardineer had already worked on National's Zatara and started working on Merlin for Quality Comics. Involving a descendant of King Arthur's magician who, up to that point, had only possessed powers while wearing a magical green cloak. With Guardineer's first issue (#12), reverse-magic became the order of the day..
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Name
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Merry the Girl of a 1000 Gimmicks
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A.K.A.
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Gimmick Girl
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Secret ID.
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Merry King (Pemberton)
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Type
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Costumed Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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Star Spangled Kid & Stripsy
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1st Appearance
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Star-Spangled Comics #81
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Year
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1948
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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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Merry King is adopted as a teenager by the father of Sylvester Pemberton, aka the Star-Spangled Kid. Merry discovers Sylvester's identity and decides to fight crime herself, eventually becoming his sidekick. She has no superpowers, but has, well, a thousand gimmicks, everything from sneezing powder to sticky-glue shooters, all concealed in her cape or in her belt pouch
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