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Name
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Shock Gibson (The Human Dynamo)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Robert Gibson
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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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Speed Comics #1
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Year
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1939
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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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Robert "Shock" Gibson, a wealthy scientist, is trying to find a way to integrate electricity into the human body. He finds it, and uses it nightly to empower himself. With his new power he goes out to fight crime. While he has his dosage he can generate enough electricity to shock an entire river, weld metal, and even blast through metal walls; he also can fly, has super-strength, and can generate electro-magnetism. Without his dosage he still has great (though human) strength and stamina.
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Name
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Silver Fox (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Mr. Fox
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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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Blue Ribbon Comics #2
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Year
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1939
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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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Private Detective Fox was well known in Hollywood for solving crimes the Police could not. Due to his hair, he was dubbed the Silver Fox by local reporters. He eventually joined the Newark Police Department and became Chief of Police.
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Name
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Silver Scorpion (The)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Elizabeth 'Betty' Barstow
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Type
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Costumed Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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V-Battalion
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1st Appearance
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Daring Mystery Comics #7
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Timely / Atlas Publications (Marvel)
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Country of origin
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USA
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Betty Barstow, secretary to detective Dan Hurley, shows an active interest in fighting crime. While driving to a masquerade party one night, Betty happens upon a crime in progress. Calling upon her martial arts skills, the costumed Betty fights and beats the criminals. Betty thrills to the experience and decides to wear the costume every night and fight crime as the Silver Scorpion. Meanwhile, Dan Hurley has no idea that his gal Friday moonlights as that feared mystery-woman, the Silver Scorpion! With the Green Hornet buzzing on the radio and the pulps?Spider ensnaring the evil in his web, arthropods were very chic as superhero symbols. Silver Scorpion briefly joined the ranks of arachnid-heroines like the Black Widow, the Spider Queen, and the Spider Woman. Their male counterparts had names like the Black Spider, the Spider, Fly-Man, and the Fly. Strangely enough for, the Silver Scorpion’s costume wasn’t silver, and she never used any scorpion-derived gimmicks.
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Name
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Silver Spider (Spiderman)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Tommy Troy
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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
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Year
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1953
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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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Joe Simon prototyped the Silver Spider in the early 1950s. The Silver Spider was Tommy Troy, a young boy who morphs into a full-grown superhero after wishing on a spiderweb-covered mystical ring that he finds in the attic of an old house. From an interview with Joe Simon..."There's an interesting story behind Spiderman. I don't want to go into it fully here, but I can tell you that back in 1953 I created a superhero, a young man with spider-like qualities. I put the character in a presentation for a publisher and entitled it Spiderman. I designed the Spiderman logo. I had Clarence Beck do the pencilled sketches. He was the predominant artist for Captain Marvel, the man who gave Captain Marvel its special comic style, and I believe he came out of semi-retirement to work with me on this. At the last minute, I changed the name from Spiderman to the Silver Spider. I thought at the time there were just too many 'man' titles around,-Superman, Batman, that stuff. I took the presentation up to Harvey Comics where it languished. I kind of forgot about it after a while." So much for Stan Lee and Steve Ditko coming up with the idea!
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Name
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Silver Starr
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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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Silver Starr Super Comic #1
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Year
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1948
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Publisher
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Apache Comedy
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Country of origin
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Australia
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A ray gun toteing, adventuring, space hero in the same vein as Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers. He travelled with his companion Onro (a scientist) and his beautiful assistant Pristine.
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Name
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Silver Streak
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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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Mercury / Meteor (Side-Kick) and a Falcon called Zoom / Whiz in issue #6
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1st Appearance
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Silver Streak Comics #3
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Year
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1939
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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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The title character was a taxi driver who had the misfortune to be hypnotised by a swami with a penchant for building race cars. Unfortunately, the swami's best race car, the Silver Streak, seems to be targeted by someone or something, for every time someone drives it they are attacked and killed by a giant insect. The taxi driver is attacked and killed, but the swami brings him back to life and puts him behind the wheel of the Silver Streak to find the bad guy. Then, without much explanation, he becomes a costumed hero with a "secret fluid" in his blood which allowed him to defy gravity. He was partnered with Mercury, later Meteor. The Streak also had a super-fast pet falcon named Whiz, who like Mercury got his powers from a blood transfusion. The Streak's superpowers include super-speed and flight.
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Name
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Sir Falcon
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Mr. Knight
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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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Sir Falcon #1?
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Year
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1950's
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Publisher
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Frew Publications
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Country of origin
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Australia
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Sir falcon was a highly trained fighter, who swore an oath to protect the good. This has been passed on from father to eldest son for over six hundred years, some people even believe it to be the same man, and so a legend of immortality grew.
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Name
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Skipper (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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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Year
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Publisher
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Novelty Press
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Country of origin
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USA details missing
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[Further details unavailable]
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Name
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Sky Chief
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Burton Strong
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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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Punch Comics #1
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Harry 'A' Chesler Dynamic Publications
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Country of origin
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USA details missing
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Judging by the cover he's a Sci-Fi Character?
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Name
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Sky Girl (1)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Ginger Maguire
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Type
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Non Costumed Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Jumbo Comics #68
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Year
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1944
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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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Ginger Maguire, for whom "Sky Girl" was simply a nickname rather than a secret identity of any sort, was the star of several World War II aviation adventures, although, unlike virtually every other heroine of the era, Ginger was not putting on any dumb act and apparently was a genuine less-than-liberated mental lightweight, constantly in search of a husband as well as a career in aviation. Post-war, Sky Girl got a job as a waitress (and went from redhead to blonde) but continued to be drawn into aerial adventures. She had no powers.
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