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Name  Phantom Stranger
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Phantom Stranger #1
Year 1952
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
One of the most powerful and mysterious beings to fight for Order is the Phantom Stranger. Nothing is known of the Stranger's origins. Whatever secrets his past holds, he continually wanders the Earth, often appearing before persons who are deeply troubled or confronted with a spiritual or moral dilemma. When they are confused, he offers advice or council; if they are threatened, he defends them by bringing his own magical powers to the fore. Just as mysterious as the Phantom Stranger's origins are his exact powers and abilities, which defy classification. He manipulates supernatural energies in order to accomplish his goals and seems to have some limited command over natural forces. There seems no place he cannot reach by teleportation.
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Name  Pied Piper (The)
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Steve Prentice
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Cat.man Comics #3
Year 1941
Publisher Holyoke / Tem Publishing
Country of origin USA
Steve Prentice is a lawyer, who's set up as the patsy in a murder case, and decides to bring justice his own way. "If there were only someone these crooks and killers would fear- - someone or something so that the slightest whisper of it's name will send them crawling back to their holes...like cornered rats!!!" Steve has quite a collection of flutes and rare musical instruments he picked while touring the Orient. Some have power over weak minded people, and will make them admit to everything!
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Name  Pinky.
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Pinky Butler
Type Costumed Side-Kick
Affiliation/Team Mr Scarlet
1st Appearance Wow Comics #4
Year 1941
Publisher Fawcett Publications
Country of origin USA
Pinky is the sidekick of Mr. Scarlet. He has no superpowers.
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Name  Pioneer
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Sharp Comics #2
Year 1945
Publisher H.C. Blackerby
Country of origin USA details missing
No information at present. He appeared in one issue (The last) of Sharp Comics #2, and then jumped onto the single issue cover of Lucky "7" Comics, from Howard Publications 1944
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Name  Plastic Man
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Eel O'Brian
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Police Comics #1
Year 1941
Publisher Quality Comics
Country of origin USA
Eel O’Brian, a crook, is shot during a crime-gone-wrong and trips into a vat of acid. He stumbles into a monks?retreat up in the mountains. They heal him, in mind and body, and once he’s well he discovers that he can stretch and form his body into almost anything. He uses his new powers to fight crime. He is assisted by Woozy Winks, a friend and ex-con.
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Name  Plymo, the Rubber Man
A.K.A. N/A
Secret ID. None
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance C-M-O Comics #1 (Chicago Mail Order Co)
Year 1942
Publisher Centaur Publications
Country of origin USA details missing
Plymo was an elastic man who worked in the circus where he solved crimes. This was his only appearance, in a 7 page story
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Name  Polka-Dot Pirate
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Unknown
Type Costumed Heroine
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Dime Comics #?
Year
Publisher Bell Features / Commercial Signs of Canada
Country of origin Canada Details missing
No information at present.
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Name  Power Boy
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Zarl Vorne of Juno (formally of Earth)
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team Friends of Superboy
1st Appearance Superboy #52
Year 1956
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin U.S.A.
A superhero originally from Earth who was rocketed to the asteroid of Juno, whose lower gravity gave him super-powers.?He was met and befriended by Superboy, who, unfortunately, discovered that his presence was deadly to Power-Boy and had to leave him.?/font>
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Name  Power Girl
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Lois Lane
Type Costumed Heroine
Affiliation/Team Power Man
1st Appearance Superman #125
Year
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin U.S.A.
After being knocked unconscious by a fall from a building ledge, Lois Lane is rushed to Metropolis Hospital, where, weak from shock and in a delirium, she has a startling dream. In it, an emergency transfusion of Superman’s blood restores her to perfect health and endows her with super-powers identical to Superman’s; after donning a red wig to conceal her true identity and fashioning a distinctive green and yellow costume, Lois christens herself Power Girl and allies herself with Superman in his battle against injustice; and finally, when Clark Kent is injured in an explosion at a power plant, Lois gives him a transfusion of her own super-blood... thereby endowing Kent with super-powers and fashions him a Power-Man costume modelled after her own, but Kent proves timid and inept, even with super-powers, and ultimately, as Power-Man, he commits an idiotic blunder that betrays his secret identity to the entire world. Moments later, however, Lois awakens to discover that her acquisition of super-powers and the events that followed it were only part of an elaborate dream. (c) Supermanica
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Name  Power Lad
A.K.A. n/a
Secret ID. Tom Baker / Dik-Rey of Kandor
Type Costumed Hero
Affiliation/Team None
1st Appearance Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #45
Year 1960
Publisher National Periodical Publications (DC)
Country of origin USA
Tom Baker is Power Lad or is he? Jimmy Olsen meets a youth called Tom Baker, who appears to gain super-powers from a scientific accident and becomes the partner of Superman. Later it is revealed that he is really Dik-Rey an evil Kandorian from the bottle city of Kandor, where after his plot is discovered, he is returned to never to be heard from again. (c) Supermanica
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