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Name  Operator #5
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Jimmy Christopher
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Operator #5
Year 1934
Publisher Pulp Magazines
Country of origin USA
Secret Service Operator #5. Jimmy's chief weapon is a rapier concealed in his belt. Another is the famous death's head ring which bore the numeral 5 and contained a powerful explosive in the hollow top. There was also a small gold ornament, a reproduction of a skull with ruby eyes, which Jimmy usually had clipped to his watch chain; inside the skull there was a silver ball containing Diphenolchlorasine, a death-dealing liquid which would change into gas upon contact with air.
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Name  Oracle (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Bob Paxton
Type Non Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Lana Owens
1st Appearance Startling Comics #20
Year 1943
Publisher Nedor/Better/ Standard Comics
Country of origin USA
How's this for a power…When knocked unconscious, Oracle speaks out loud and can predict what is going to happen in the near future. But on awaking doesn't remember a thing, lucky for him his girl-friend Lana is around to listen in on his prediction! Apart from that he's good with his fists! ..See next months issue where he gets knocked out again!
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Name  Outlaw Kid
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Lance Temple
Type Costumed Cowboy
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Outlaw Kid #1
Year 1954
Publisher Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
Country of origin USA
A peaceable frontier lawyer and Civil War veteran. He's a mild-mannered guy working on his dad's ranch, but when danger threatens he puts on his black outfit with white shoulders and a red kerchief, saddles up his horse Thunder, and rides out to fight crime as the Outlaw Kid
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Name  Owl (1) (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Funny Pages Vol 4 #1
Year 1940
Publisher Centaur Publications
Country of origin USA
The Owl could fly and had a mechanism on his mid-drift, which made a hooting noise. Appeared at the same time as ‘Hawkman?but lasted 6 pages only.
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Name  Owl (2) (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Nick Terry
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Owl Girl (Side-Kick)
1st Appearance Crackerjack Funnies #25
Year 1940
Publisher Dell Publishing
Country of origin USA
Nick Terry is a special investigator for the police department. He takes the law into his own hands and dresses up as the costumed vigilante the Owl. He is assisted by his girlfriend Belle Wayne, a gossip columnist who is also his sidekick Owl Girl. The Owl has no superpowers, but he's got an array of equipment, including an Owlmobile which can fly, doubles as a roadster, and is armed with "Owl-bombs" and a darkness-casting blacklight ray; and robot Owlos, controlled ultrasonically, which can see through the blacklight ray, can track like bloodhounds and can dive-bomb enemies. The Owl's cape also doubles as a parachute.
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Name  Owl Girl
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Belle Wayne
Type Costumed Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team Owl Man
1st Appearance Crackerjack Funnies #32
Year 1941
Publisher Dell Publishing
Country of origin USA
Belle Wayne is a gossip columnist for the Yorktown Morning Eagle. She is also the girlfriend of Nick Terry, a.k.a. the Owl, and helps him as the costumed Owl Girl. She has no powers but can use his gimmicks and is a good fighter.
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Name  Owlman
A.K.A. Robin
Secret ID. Richard 'Dick' Grayson
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Batman
1st Appearance Batman #107
Year 1957 (Not Golden Age, but fun all the same)
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Dick Grayson is exposed to a strange gas from a box left in Batman's safekeeping after Superman found it floating in outer space, and he falls unconscious, only to wake up the next morning a fully-grown, adult man. He is unable to assist Batman in his crime-fighting due to his costume now being too small, his not being used to his larger size, and the fact that inside he was still a teenager. Nevertheless, against orders to the contrary, Dick decides to use an owl masquerade costume and becomes the Owlman, joining Batman in a battle against a trio of former circus acrobats-turned criminals, who called themselves the Daredevils... By the end of the story, of course, Dick Grayson has resumed the body of a teenager, and all is well again.
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