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Name  Mighty Man
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Scott Pearson
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Super Ann
1st Appearance Amazing-Man Comics #5 (1st issue)
Year 1939
Publisher Centaur Publications
Country of origin USA
In the 1800's, a group of pioneers entered a secret valley where they settled. Although they appear to have died out, one of their children survived. Mighty Man stood about 15 feet high and possessed incredible strength. Eventually, he submitted to an experiment by Dr. Robert Hilldale which gave him the ability to shrink to the size of a mouse or expand to a hundred or more feet tall. He could also change his features. He eventually teamed up with Super Ann.
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Name  Mike
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team Doc Strange
1st Appearance Thrilling Comics #24
Year 1942
Publisher Nedor/Better/ Standard Comics
Country of origin USA
Doc Strange's' side-kick, Mike, who is too young to drink 'Alosun' but who fights crime anyhow.
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Name  Mike Gibbs (The Guerrilla)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Adventure Comics #84
Year 1943
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Starved and beaten by cruel Japanese jailers, victims of mental and physical torture?a band of gallant American boys never gives up! When chance brings a grimly battling guerrilla to their aid. They help strike off their own shackles and all Mikado's men and all Mikado's ships can't put those bonds together again. Basically he helps American Prisoners of war escape. No powers but has a huge sword!
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Name  Millionaire Detective
A.K.A. N/A
Secret ID. Bruce Wayne?
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance World's Finest Comics #67
Year 1953
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA details missing
[Further details unavailable]
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Name  Minimidget (The Miniature Man)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Jack Rhodes
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Ritty (Side-Kick)
1st Appearance Amazing-Man Comics #5 (1st issue)
Year 1939
Publisher Centaur Publications
Country of origin USA
Jack Rhodes and his girlfriend Ritty have the misfortune to be the target of a mad scientist's shrinking ray. They are both permanently 6" tall, but can change their mass, so can pack a punch! The pair make the best of their bad situation and have a number of Doll Man-like adventures. They have no superpowers, but are smart and adventurous and make use of tiny sports cars and miniature airplanes.
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Name  Minute-Man
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Jack Weston
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Crime Crusaders Club
1st Appearance Master Comics #11
Year 1941
Publisher Fawcett Publications
Country of origin USA
Private Jack Weston of the U.S. Army wants to do more to fight the Germans than he can while stationed at Camp Blaine, so he puts on a costume and begins attacking the enemy. He is a member of the Crime Crusaders Club. He has no superpowers.
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Name  Miracle Man
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. John Chapman
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Miracle Man #?
Year 1950's
Publisher
Country of origin UK Details missing
By saying the words "Sundisc" Young Johnny Chapman becomes by magic Miracle Man. He has super-strength, flight, invulnerability and x-ray vision.
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Name  Mirror Man
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Dean Alder
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Tip Top Comics #54
Year 1943
Publisher United Features Syndicate
Country of origin USA
Dean Alder, the head of the Alder Academy, wants to fight crime as well as instruct the young. When he walks through a mirror?he becomes a dematerialised shadow. He uses his power to fight crime. While a shadow he can't hold anything, but while solid and normal he can. He wears a magic robe, this Mystic Garment, which allows him to walk into and out of mirrors and gives him his powers.
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Name  Miss America (1)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Joan Dale
Type Costumed Heroine
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Military Comics #1
Year 1940
Publisher Quality Comics
Country of origin USA
Joan Dale is visiting the Statue of Liberty when she wishes aloud that she could do "all the good...if (she) had the powers of that Statue." She falls asleep and has a dream that the Statue gives her magic powers. She wakes up, finds that she actually has the powers, and goes on to fight the enemies of America. Her powers are undefined but vast; she can do just about anything.
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Name  Miss America (2)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Madeline Joyce
Type Costumed Heroine
Affiliation/Team All-Winners Squad / V-Battalion /Liberty Legion
1st Appearance Marvel Mystery Comics #49
Year 1943
Publisher Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
Country of origin USA
Even before getting super-powered, she was passionately devoted to the cause of justice, and didn't mind an occasional fistfight to achieve it ?and she wished she had a man's strength, so she could achieve more. She visited a Professor Lawson, whose was experimenting with electricity. Lawson claimed to have gained awesome power when lightning struck a strange contraption he had built. That night, during a thunderstorm, Madeline tried to duplicate his feat. Lawson found her unconscious and destroyed the device and himself with it. But Madeline recovered quickly, as powerful as she'd hoped, and soon embarked on her career as a scourge of evildoers. Her powers included psionic levitation, and when leaping at the same time she could achieve flight. She had superhuman strength, X-ray vision and heightened intelligence. She was also near-sighted and wore glasses on a regular basis, even in her costumed identity.
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