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Name
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Sky Girl (2)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Lana Lang
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Type
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Costumed Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Adventure Comics #189
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Year
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1953
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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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A magic belt Lewis Lang brings back from Easter Island gives Lana super-powers.?She becomes Sky-Girl, a lead-masked heroine, and gives Superboy competition in Smallville.
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Name
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Sky Man
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Allen Turner
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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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Big Shot Comics #1
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Columbia Comic Corporation
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Country of origin
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USA
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Allen Turner, raised by his scientist to be a perfect human, grows up to be outstanding in body and mind. With the money he receives from his uncle's will he fulfils his vow of fighting crime from on high. Skyman has no powers, but he is a scientist and inventor of great ability and has a high tech airplane called the Wing. The Wing is boomerang shaped and flies by the power of the Earth's magnetic poles. It can achieve speeds of 800 mph and hover, allowing Skyman to descend on a cable.
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Name
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Sky Wizard Master of Space
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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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Miracle Comics #1
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Year
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1940
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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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Sky Wizard was the world's greatest inventor. He built a 'stratosphere plane' for which he hired Capt. Dare to test fly to China. Sky Wizard is outfitted in a red uniform with his trusty paralyzer gun, strapped to his hip. (In fact a 'Sky Wizard' paralyzer gun is offered free for the best five hundred letters submitted on the first issue.)
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Name
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Skyboy
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Tharn of Kormo
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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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World's Finest Comics #92
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Year
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Publisher
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National Periodical Publications (DC)
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Country of origin
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U.S.A.
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Superman finds a boy with amnesia in a crashed spaceship. The boy has super-powers. Superman names him Skyboy and takes him as a junior partner. Skyboy, who ultimately recovers his memory with Superman's help, is in reality Tharn, the son of a lawman on the far-distant planet Kormo who dispatched his son to Earth to alert its inhabitants to the recent arrival on Earth of a band of interplanetary outlaws (c) Supermanica
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Name
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SkyWolf (1)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Paul Storm
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Type
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Costumed Pilot
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Silver Streak Comics #4
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Year
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1940
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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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Paul Storm is Polish, but after the German attack, in which he loses his wife and child, he becomes a citizen of no country. He puts on a mask, designs a special plane, and becomes a terror of the air. He has no superpowers.
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Name
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SkyWolf (2)
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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 Pilot
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Air Fighters Comics #2
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Year
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1942
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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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Skywolf was Hillman's answer to Blackhawk. He headed a team of three flyers; Cocky Roche, a cockney. The Judge, an old Englishman turned down by the R.A.F. because of his age; and "The Turtle, A Polish mute whose tongue was cut out by Germans.
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Name
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Slam Bradley
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Samuel 'Slam' Emerson Bradley
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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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Detective Comics #1
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Year
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1937
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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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Slam Bradley is a hard bitten, tough private detective who loves beautiful dames, stiff drinks and the odd fist-fight now and then.
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Name
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Sleepy
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Terry Wake
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Nightmare
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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.?They travelled for Bob's bouts and fought crime as they went, the bizarre synchronicity of these appearances evidently occurring to no member of the public.?/font>
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Name
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Sniper (The)
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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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Military Comics #5
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Year
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1941
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Publisher
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Quality Comics
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Country of origin
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USA
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This nameless character was a sharpshooter who dressed up like Robin Hood and fought against the Germans in Occupied Europe.
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Name
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Snowman (The)
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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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Radio Comics #1
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Year
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1940's
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Publisher
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Jules Feiffer
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Country of origin
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USA details missing
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Jules Feiffer's childhood effort at copying the Superhero Genre. He also created "The Knight! Snap Allen and Corky! Radio Riley! Buddy Brandon! Officer Carson!"
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