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Name
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Night (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Miss Davis
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Type
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Costumed Villainess
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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X-Venture #1
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Year
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1947
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Publisher
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Victory Magazines
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Country of origin
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USA
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The rather cool-looking character on the cover of X-Venture #1 is actually a villain called the Night who appears in the first instalment of that series. The Night turns out to be a woman who wears a black wig under her mask (as an added level of secrecy,) to disguise her real hair color, red. She is actually an attractive bank secretary named Miss Davis who decides to get rich off of her employer via a bank robbery. (c) AlmostaBrett 2007
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Name
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Night fighter
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Unknown
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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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(Unpublished) Mainline Comics
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Year
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1954
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Publisher
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Leader News
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Country of origin
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USA
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Designed by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for their own brand of comics, but never released due to the publisher going under. In 'Love #1' there is a cryptic in-house advertisement for a possible fifth title named 'Night fighter'; which never saw print because Mainline didn't survive long enough to add a super-hero to their fledgling line.
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Name
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Night Hawk
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Jack Filan
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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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All-New Comics #1 (All-New Short Stories #1 -3)
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Year
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1943
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Publisher
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Harvey Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Jack Filan, a wealthy playboy, is the crime fighting Night Hawk. He's very strong and quite acrobatic. The Night Hawk is not particularly famous, and when Jack mentions that he's friends with the Night Hawk his fianc? Jane Curry, does not react in any way. The Night Hawk fights against, among other enemies, a Red Skull-looking master villain called the "Green Skull." He's very strong and quite acrobatic. Only appearance.
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Name
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Nightbird (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Lens' Crockett
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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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The Green Mask Vol 1 #6
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Fox Features Syndicate
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Country of origin
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USA
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Lens' Crockett is a newspaper photographer who stumbles on a murder case and is beaten up by the crooks. Vowing revenge and a way to beat the bad guys, 'Lens' finds a fancy dress costume in the stock room of the newspaper office and fights back as the Nightbird. Nightbird has no powers other than surprise and a good right hook!
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Name
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Nightmare
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Bob White
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Sleepy
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1st Appearance
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Clue Comics #1
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Year
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1943
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Publisher
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Hillman Periodicals
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Country of origin
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USA
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Nightmare and Sleepy, a.k.a. boxer Bob White and his teenage manager Terry Wake. These two are of the once-common but now rare type of super-hero, ordinary people who put on costumes and fight crime without benefit of any super-powers or specialized weapons. For most of their career, Nightmare wore a skeleton-like costume while Sleepy was dressed in a style reminiscent of the Grim Reaper.
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Name
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Nightro
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Hugh Goddard
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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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Daredevil Comics #2
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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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Hugh Goddard is blind and can only see at night with the help of special glasses. He turns his disability to good use and begins fighting crime at night with the help of his dog Blackie.
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Name
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Nightshade
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Howard Hall
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Type
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Non Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Amazing-Man Comics #24
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Centaur Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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Crimefighter Howard Hall is able to give his shadow physical powers. To help him fight crime, he strapped a flashlight to his ankles so that, when he turned them on, he had a shadow to control. He could get his shadow to creep into a room, and was able to hear what was being said. He could grab people using his shadow, and shadow box them. He only needed a bright light source to go into action against the bad guys!
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Name
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Nitro
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Unknown
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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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Dime Comics #15?
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Bell Features / Commercial Signs of Canada
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Country of origin
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Canada Details missing
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Two fisted adventurer.
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Name
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Nordac
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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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Double Comics (which was re-print title)
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Elliott Publications
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Country of origin
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USA
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No two copies of Double Comics are the same -- not only did the issues for each year have several different covers, you never knew which remaindered comics would be re-bound on the inside, or even which publisher they'd be from! Any kids who bought this mag' hoping to read all about the cover hero called Nordac the Giant, instead found several other remaindered comic hero's instead! (See Double-Up & Weekender)
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Name
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Norgil 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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Francis Loring
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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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Doc Savage Comics #1
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Street & Smith
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Country of origin
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USA
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Loring (Norgil) was renowned as a stage magician, and in the years before the War performed, as the saying goes, before Presidents and Kings. Although he is not much remembered today, in the 1930s he was a celebrity on the level of a modern movie star. He was also a crime fighter, although far fewer people knew this about him. He was quite skilled at putting criminals behind bars and solving seemingly impossible crimes, even and especially those committed by other stage magicians.
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