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Name
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Steel Sterling
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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John Sterling
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Inferno
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1st Appearance
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Zip Comics #1
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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MLJ /Archie Comics
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Country of origin
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USA
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John Sterling decides to become a crime-fighter after his father is rubbed out by the mob. He studies chemistry and discovers a formula which gives his body the hardness of steel. He doses himself with this formula and then jumps into a vat of molten steel, which makes his body steel-strong and steel-hard. He then goes on to become a private detective. He has, as mentioned, steel skin and super-strength. He can also rub his "electrolysed tongue" against his teeth to tap into telephone wires. He can run fast enough to leave a sonic boom behind him. He is vulnerable to magic, however.
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Name
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Steve Samson Strong man of the Circus
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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None
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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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Steve Samson
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Year
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1953
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Publisher
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Sports Cartoons Ltd
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Country of origin
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UK
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Steve Samson was a circus strongman, who decided to fight crime as a secret agent, working for a character called Colonel Lovatt of MI5. While performing at Major Lambert's International Circus, he helped protect the circus from rival showmen and saboteurs, and eventually joined the first spaceship crew that journeyed to the planet Mars.
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Name
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Storyman (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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None
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Type
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Non Costumed Host
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Crown Comics #3
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Year
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1945
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Publisher
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Golfing / McCombs
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Country of origin
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USA
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Storyman was a narrator character who told stories from his personal library.
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Name
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Streamline The Fastest Fighter in the World
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Keenan King
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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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Streamline Comics #1
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Year
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1947
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Publisher
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Cardal Publishing Co.
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Country of origin
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UK
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Scientist Keenan King has spent the last 18 months perfecting this new drug Elixir X, and the wonder elixir makes Keenan the fastest man alive! Thus is born Streamline, speediest crime fighter in the world.
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Name
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Stripsey
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Pat Dugan
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Star Spangled Kid / Seven Soldiers of Victory / Justice Society of America
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1st Appearance
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Action Comics #40
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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National Periodical Publications (DC)
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Country of origin
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USA
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Mechanic Pat Dugan began his super-heroic career as Stripesy, adult sidekick to the super-powered Star-Spangled Kid, and a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory during the Second World War. After he and the other Soldiers were rescued from time-travel adventures by the heroes of the JSA and the Justice League, Pat retired from active heroing, but gave a hand to Infinity Inc. (of which the former Kid was a member) in his capacity as a mechanic.
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Name
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Strongman (1)
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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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Strongman #1
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Year
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1955
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Publisher
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Magazine Enterprises
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Country of origin
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USA
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Just what is states on the Title, Strongman was a strongman who fought crime and injustice using his strength and while wearing that circus costume. The strongest human being alive, he has no superhuman powers, no fantastic magic that transforms him from weakling to unconquerable champion- but he does have great strength, which he developed himself with exercise, clean living, good eating, and positive will power. He also possess the ancient skills of judo, is an expert magician, and a champion lariat-thrower. All of these skills he uses to help the helpless and overcome wrongdoers as ...Strongman!!
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Name
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Strongman (2)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Jonathan Kent
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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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Adventure Comics #236
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Year
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1957
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Publisher
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National Periodical Publications (DC)
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Country of origin
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USA
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Jonathan Kent temporarily gains super-powers from a rod that Superboy brings to Earth from an alien world. Jonathan assumes the identity of Strongman and assists Superboy. He lacks good judgment in using his powers, forcing Superboy to cover for his father’s mistakes and help protect his secret identity. Eventually Jonathan’s powers wear off, forcing him to happily give up his Strongman identity. (c) Mike's AmazingWorld of DC
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Name
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Strongman (The Perfect Human)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Percy Van Norton
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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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Crash Comics #1
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Holyoke / Tem Publishing
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Country of origin
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USA
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Percy van Norton, a playboy, acquires a "secret book of yogi" and studies it for years until he becomes "the world's most perfect man, He has the strength of 100 elephants, the speed of a race car and his skin is as tough as a rhino hide. He puts his super-strength and genius-level mind to work fighting crime. (He also has a "boomerang rope")
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Name
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Stuart Taylor, Dr Hayward and Laura
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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None
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Type
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Costumed / Non costumed Team
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Jumbo Comics #1
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Year
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1938
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Publisher
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Fiction House Magazines
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Country of origin
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USA
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Stuart Taylor was a time traveller. In each story Stuart Taylor, Laura and scientist Dr. Hayward would travel to a different period in time. Many of the stories were adventure tales. They remind you of the costume dramas that were so popular in Hollywood movies of the era. Like the movies, these tales were often full of exciting fights and dramatic suspense scenes.
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Name
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Stuff, the China Town Kid
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Jimmy Leong
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Type
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Costumed Side-Kick
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Affiliation/Team
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Vigilante / Seven Soldiers of Victory
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1st Appearance
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Action Comics #45
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Year
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1942
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Publisher
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National Periodical Publications (DC)
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Country of origin
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USA
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Stuff is the Chinese-American sidekick of the Vigilante. He has no powers. Young Jimmy Leong was taken under the wing of Greg Sanders, The Vigilante, after helping him with a case in New York's Chinatown. Sanders raised the boy, as he was taught judo and hakido by the proficient youngster. The two later joined The Seven Solders of Victory, where Stuff found another role model in Wing, another Chinese youth.
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