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Name  Merzah the Mystic
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Diana (2)
1st Appearance Mystic Comics Vol 1 #4
Year 1940
Publisher Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
Country of origin USA
Merzah the Mystic fights international spies and saboteurs. By his amazing powers of thought transmission, mental telepathy and precognitive powers he protects his country from the inroads of communism and fascism!
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Name  Meteor
A.K.A. Mercury
Secret ID. Mickey O'Toole
Type Costumed Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team Silver Streak
1st Appearance Silver Streak Comics #12
Year 1941
Publisher Lev Gleason Publications
Country of origin USA
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  Meteor Martin
A.K.A. N/A
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Amazing Man Comics #25
Year 1941
Publisher Centaur Publications
Country of origin USA details missing
Ace pilot of Moon patrol.
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Name  Mickey Martin
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type (Unknown) Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team American Crusader
1st Appearance Thrilling Comics #21
Year 1942
Publisher Nedor/Better/ Standard Comics
Country of origin USA details missing
Mickey is the subject of a controlled experiment of the kind that gave the American Crusader his powers. The experiment works, and Mike gains the Crusader's powers. He decides to become the Crusader's sidekick. His superpowers include super strength, flight, speed, and invulnerability to bullets.
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Name  Mickey Matthews
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Non Costumed Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team The Deacon /Little Leaders
1st Appearance Cat.man Comics #1
Year 1941
Publisher Holyoke / Tem Publishing
Country of origin USA
Mickey Matthews is the youthful sidekick of the Deacon. He is also a member of the Little Leaders. His life was saved by the Deacon, which is how the pair met up.
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Name  Micro-Face
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Tom Woods
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Clue Comics #1
Year 1943
Publisher Hillman Periodicals
Country of origin USA
Tom Woods loses his brother to gangsters' guns. He swears revenge and puts together a costume to do so. (He beats the gangsters, of course) He has no superpowers, but his mask has a microphone for amplifying his voice, a hearing-amplifier, and "photoelectric lenses" for x-ray vision.
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Name  Microman
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Jimmy Everett
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Human Torch Comics #2
Year 1940
Publisher Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
Country of origin USA
Bored little Jimmy Everett visits Mr. Schmidt in his lab while he is experimenting. After finding out the old chemist has invented a potion that can shrink someone, he runs an errand for him, and comes back to find him asleep. Jimmy decides to take the potion and shrinks down to the size of a nickel laying on the floor. When the chemist awakes, he spots the coin and picks it up, not noticing Jimmy on the coin, and puts it in his pocket. The old man happens to pick up a magnifying glass and sees the tiny boy, gives him the antidote and restores him to regular size. 1st and only appearance
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Name  Midnight
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Dave Clark
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Smash Comics #18
Year 1941
Publisher Quality Comics
Country of origin USA
Dave Clark is a radio announcer at UMAX who decides to fight crime at night, and does so, assisted by talking monkey Gabby and reformed criminal and mad scientist Doc Wackey. Midnight has no superpowers but carries a gun, sleep-darts, a two-way wrist radio, and other gadgets.
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Name  Mighty Boy
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Zarl Kazzan of Zumoor (formally Keith of Earth)
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Friends of Superboy
1st Appearance Superboy #85
Year
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin U.S.A.
A superhero from the planet Zumoor who became friends with Superboy for a time until the Boy of Steel learned his body acted like Red Kryptonite to Mighty Boy.
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Name  Mighty Maid
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Supergirl
Type Costumed heroine
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Action Comics #260
Year 1960?
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin U.S.A.
An alias employed by Supergirl in January 1960 when she poses as a beautiful brown-haired super-heroine from the fourth dimension as part of an elaborate ruse, devised by Superman, to thwart a plan by extraterrestrial aliens to destroy the planet Earth, Superman’s adopted planet, in retaliation for a mistaken attack on a fleet of their spacecraft, long ago, by the army of Krypton, the far-distant planet where Superman was born. (c) Supermanica
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