Description: Captain Tootsie was a superhero created to advertise a product. He would always need to consume a Tootsie Roll for a sudden boost of energy in whatever task he needed to perform. He had a sidekick, a boy named Rollo, and two other young cohorts named Fatso and Fisty. The three, along with the Captain himself, made up the Secret Legion.
Description: Richard Grey Jr. lost his parents during an archaeological expedition to Mongolia, where they were killed in an ambush. Richard was raised by giant black condors native to the region, and after studying his condor foster parents, he learned to fly. Later, when he reached adulthood, he befriended a hermit monk named Father Pierre who convinced him that he should use his unique attributes to do good. Inspired by the monk's teachings, Richard adopted the costumed persona of Black Condor.
Description: After Richard Stanton's daughter was kidnapped, the shock gave his wife a heart attack and he quit the theater to find her. Disguising himself as a "harmless old woman," he later came to be known as "Madam Fatal." He was assisted by his parrot, Hamlet, who would recite Shakespeare. Madam Fatal had no powers but, wielded a cane as a weapon and was a skilled actor and master of disguise.
Description: Mighty Mite was Mickey, a young American boy living in the city of Rosedale. When his female friend, Teena, invited him to come to her costume party, he dressed up as a superhero named Mighty Mite. When he arrived at the party, he found that the crooks were holding the guests hostage. He managed to defeat the criminals through sheer luck rather than any particular effort. From that point on, Mickey operated as Mighty Mite 24/7. He remained supernaturally lucky but, to his credit, he tried his best to rise to his reputation and actually put some effort into crime-fighting.
Description: This unnamed hero operated from underneath the 1939 New York World's Fair in an underground lab connected to an underground river. He guarded the Fair and fought those criminals and racketeers who threatened it. He later became known as "Fantoman." The Fantom was strong enough to bend gun barrels and also possessed great speed. He was also a skilled hypnotist and could tamper with people's memories.
Description: Percy van Norton was an American playboy who acquired a secret book of yogi. He studied it for years until he became the world's most perfect man. He has the strength of 100 elephants, the speed of a race car, and skin as tough as rhino hide. He put his super strength and genius-level mind to work fighting crime and foreign invasions. He also carried a boomerang rope.
Description: Joan Wayne was a Washington D.C. stenographer who grew tired of watching corrupt politicians. She decided to help the FBI by putting on a costume and fighting the crooked politicians as Miss Victory. It seems she has superhuman strength and limited invulnerability because of her abilities to survive explosions, break free of ropes, or knock down walls. Her enemies include the Mad Monster. She is considered the first patriotic heroine.
Description: John Fearless VI was a Boston Brahmin who, while strolling through a cemetery in Boston, encountered the spirit of his ancestor, the first John Fearless, a soldier who fought valiantly during the American Revolution. The original Fearless tells his descendant that he is needed to fight Axis subversion and evil in America, and then gives Captain Fearless a costume and a magic horn to help him. He has no superpowers, but his horn can summon up his ancestor for assistance.
Description: The Ermine was a mysterious frontiersmen who wore a referable outfit made from the brown summer coat of the ermine on one side and the white winter coat on the other. It allowed for him to blend in to trees and snow. He would help settlers by protecting them from hostile tribes. The Ermine was a skilled tracker, was friends with all the forest creatures, and carried a large knife.
Description: Some time in the late 1800s, a group of pioneers entered a secret valley where everything was several times the normal size. They were unable to find their way out, so they settled. While most of them seem to have died out, one of their children survived. Because he was born within the valley, he was as tall as everything else there. He stood about 15 feet high and possessed incredible strength, even for his gigantic size. He became known as Mighty Man.
Description: Chuck Hardy was an American diver on a yawl called the "Research" off the island of Tahuata in the South Pacific. He was working with a woman named Jerry Peterson, on the ocean floor when the volcano on Tahuata erupted. Jerry and Chuck fell through a fissure into the strange subterranean world of Aquatania. The two of them made many friends and enemies in this land, as they quested for a way to get back home.
Description: Called the world's greatest inventor, Sky Wizard the Master of Space built a "stratosphere plane" - an enormous flying island. He hired Capt. Dare to test fly it to China, but when Captain Dare was kidnapped by the Tibetan tyrant known as the Unholy One, he used his island and other inventions to rescue him.
Description: Rollo P. Quinn (Little Dynamite) was a young leader of a kid gang. He lived in a slum in New York's East Side. He got his nickname because he was a strong fighter with a hair-trigger temper. Rollo did have a soft spot for his older sister, who pretty much raised him. As the years went on, Rollo started to mellow out, and his gang spent more and more time fighting crime.
Description: While aiding Dr. Lorenz in an experiment, Dash Dixon allowed the doctor to inject him with perpetual life rays. It made Dash immune to death, gave him superhuman leaps, super strength, and indestructibility. Normally, those powers would dissipate after 24 hours, but Dr. Lorenz gave Dixon a suit of pliable metal that contained his powers indefinitely. He used his powers to aid the police force in catching criminals.
Description: Captain Courageous is a supernatural being, a "Spirit of Courage" that appeared when brave men and women ask for courage. During World War II, Captain Courageous responded to Americans' pleas and appeared to help the Allies. He had super strength, flight, limited invulnerability, and could survive unaided underwater.
Description: El Carim was a master of the mystical arts. He was visited by the spirit of Wizzar, the father of all magic, who gives him a magic cloak. He uses his cloak and backwards-recited magic to fight criminals and evildoers assisted by the lovely Gladys. El Carim spelled backwards is "Miracle."
Description: Lucky Wings was a plucky girl reporter who single-handedly took on Axis spies, ghouls, and, in one case, gangsters who had gotten a hold of a device that let them take control of atoms causing buildings to crumble, and cars to race out of control as if they had minds of their own. Lucky could fly small aircraft and went undercover as a lounge singer.
Description: Rookie Rankin is a brave beat patrolman, if none too bright – much to the annoyance of his superior, Sgt. Burns. His "routine" patrols invariably uncovered major crimes. Most of the criminals he apprehends are normal, but some are name villains, like the Spider and the Tattooed Man.
Description: Private detective Rod Rooney had a reputation for solving impossible and bizarre crimes, and much to the dismay of the police force, he kept showing them up. For the most bizarre crimes, he did his investigating as the masked hero known as the Red Rogue. His only appearance was in a story entitled "The Murderer That Had No Feet."
Description: Nightmare and Sleepy are wrestler Bob White and his teenage manager, Terry Wake, respectively. They are just regular guys who put on costumes and fight crime without super powers or gadgets. Most of their superhero careers featured Nightmare wearing a skeleton-like costume and Sleepy dressed like the Grim Reaper. The skeleton's designs were lined with phosphorus, which created the illusion of moving, glowing skeleton in the dark.
Description: When Europe was divided into scores of warring kingdoms, a five-year old prince was exiled by his uncle who coveted the throne of Bardavia. Captured by pirates, the boy was reared as a son by the fiercest buccaneer in the Mediterranean. Now, at seventeen, Thunderbrand begins his quest seeking the long lost gold scepter that will prove his noble birthright!
Description: Billy Bounce was a young boy from an unnamed American small town which didn't have a whole lot of crime. He wanted to be a detective, but he wasn't terribly good at it. He was inept at interpreting clues, making disguises, and following leads. Billy made up for it with his unusual strength and sheer dumb luck. And to give the boy his credit, he kept trying to become a good detective no matter how often he screwed up.
Description: Wishing to do more to combat the criminals of Superior City, Oregon, than he could as an assistant district attorney, Rick Raleigh created the costumed identity of the Red Bee. During his adventures, he battled the likes of "Boss" Storm, Dr. Marah, and the Swordsmen Kalak and Rugi. He was a superb athlete and could control bees. He also carried a stinger gun.
Description: Ace Williams, known as the Ace of the Newsreels, was both a cameraman and journalist. He was assisted by his attractive reporter sidekick Jessica Frances Gibbons, who went by the nickname Foggy. They covered the news in cities such as Hopeville, Circleville, and Capital City. However they did not only report the news, they also fought crime.
Description: Dennis Temple, actor and private eye, is the most hated man in the movie business (since he often plays the bad guy). He has a blonde actress fiancee named Rita Wilson, who is far more popular than he is. Dennis is secretly the crime fighter known as the Menace, but Rita does not know of his dual life. The Menace has no super powers but is a skilled fighter; plus, he uses a variety of gadgets in his war against crime.
