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Name
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Wildcat
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Ted Grant
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Justice Society of America / Stretch Skinner
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1st Appearance
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Sensation Comics #1
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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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Ted Grant, world heavyweight champion, is framed in a crooked fight and puts on a cat costume to clear himself and fight crime. He is partnered with Stretch Skinner, his manager and sidekick, and is a member of the Justice Society of America. He has no powers but is, after all, the heavyweight champion of the world.
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Name
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Wildfire
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Carol Vance Martin
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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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Smash Comics #25
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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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Carol Vance Martin received her powers from the god of fire. She has control over flames.
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Name
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Wing
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A.K.A.
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Crimson Avenger's Chauffeur
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Secret ID.
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Unknown
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Type
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Costumed Side-Kick
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Affiliation/Team
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Crimson Avenger / Seven Soldiers of Victory
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1st Appearance
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Detective Comics #20
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Year
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1938
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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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Wing is the valet of Lee Travers, aka the Crimson Avenger. The Crimson Avenger wants to limit Wing's exposure to danger because he has a very promising future. Wing when fighting the Nebula Man attacks him with the Nebula Rod the resulting blast destroys the enemy, but kills Wing, and sends the rest of the team into the time stream. Monks at a nearby monastery, who witnessed the battle, bury the young hero, unaware that the energy of the Nebula Man was absorbed into Wing's broken form. They mark the grave with a tombstone with the epitaph "Here In Honoured Glory Lies An Unknown Soldier Of Victory Who Died That His World Might Live". He has no superpowers but is a good martial artist and fighter.
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Name
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Wing, Queen of Justice
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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 Heroine
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Joke Comics #18
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Year
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1942
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Publisher
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Bell Features / Commercial Signs of Canada
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Country of origin
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Canada Details missing
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Two fisted heroine, who appears to have flight and super-strength as her main powers.
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Name
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Wingman
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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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Club of Heroes
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1st Appearance
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Batman #65
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Year
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1951
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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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During World War II, a young native of neutral Sweden joined the Norwegian Underground to fight the invading Germans. In 1951, this boy donned a red-and yellow costume, and, inspired by the JSA, became the Wingman, one of the first costumed heroes to emerge outside the United States. In 1957, Wingman joined the African Doctor Mist, the British Knight and Squire, the Italian Legionary, the Argentinean Gaucho, the French Musketeer, (and later possibly the Australian Ranger), and founded the international Dome (a.k.a. the Club of Heroes), an organization that would later evolve into the Global Guardians.
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Name
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Wings Winfair
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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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Gulf Funny Weekly #309
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Year
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1940
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Publisher
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Gulf Petroleum Company
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Country of origin
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USA
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Wings Winfair was another Flash Gordon clone. Gulf Funny Weekly is an extremely rare weekly comic section given away free at Gulf gas stations in the 1930's and 40's
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Name
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Wise Guy (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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Non Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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None
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1st Appearance
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Gold Medal Comics (One shot)
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Year
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1945
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Publisher
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Cambridge House / Superior Publishers
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Country of origin
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Canada Details missing
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No information at present.
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Name
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Witness (1) (The)
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A.K.A.
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Witness (2)
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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 / In 2008 became a member of Marvel's The Twelve.
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1st Appearance
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Mystic Comics Vol 1 #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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No origin was given for the Witness. He had no superpowers, but was good with his fists and was a killer vigilante. In fact, the Witness appears to take his name pretty seriously: in #8 he watches some crooks break into a store and does not actually confront them until After they have committed the crime. In #9, when some gangsters dump a beaten victim into the river, the Witness, instead of preventing them from tossing the comatose man into the water, waits until they're finished before he rescues the man. It's as if the Witness is for some reason forbidden to take action until a crime has in fact been committed, but once the initial crime occurs, it's a different matter.
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Name
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Witness (2) (The)
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A.K.A.
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Witness (1)
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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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The Witness #1 (One shot)
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Year
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1948
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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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This is the Witness, judge, jury, and avenger of evil. He later becomes the master reporter of the beyond, the nether realms, from the depths of Hades to downtown New York, often broadcasting his melodramas of mystery from a radio station somewhere in the supernatural. "This is your host...The Witness! And I am near...watching! Because nothing escapes the eyes of the Witness!" The Witness was another of Timely’s fly-by-night heroes, appearing in several comics but with no real home. He began in the early 1940s as a non-powered hero in the costumed vigilante mode, good with his fists and carrying a gun. Then he was revived in 1949 as the host of some weird tales, like EC’s Crypt-Keeper (though with nothing like the success).
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Name
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Wizard (The Man with the Super-Brain)
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A.K.A.
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n/a
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Secret ID.
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Blane Whitney
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Type
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Costumed Hero
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Affiliation/Team
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Roy The Superboy (Side-Kick)
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1st Appearance
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Top-Notch Comics #1
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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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Blane Whitney is the great-great-grandson of a Revolutionary War hero and a brother who is the Chief of Naval Intelligence in Washington. With a pedigree like that you know he'll turn out well, and so he does. He trains himself, starting as a child, to be a "Super-Brain," and succeeds, gaining clairvoyance and a photographic memory. In addition, after being blinded early on he regains his sight and develops an invulnerable costume for himself. Finally, he also has a "Dynamagno-Saw Ray Projector," an "H2-VX-O Ray," and "Secret Formula F22X."
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