Description: Typhon was an adventurer and inventor who commanded numerous submarines with the help of his crew. He also possessed a "charm-dispelling ring that had been handed down to him from ancient times." His enemies included the Ruler of the Underseas and his serpents as well as Mikal and his Sea Demons. While battling Mikal, Typhon became allies with Queen Mea, the ruler of an undersea kingdom of Sea Amazons called Mermea.
Description: The Sorceress of Zoom was the ruler of the magical cloud city of Zoom. The city could appear, disappear and travel through the sky at her whim. Her subjects, within the city, were monsters magically created by her from the remains of those who were killed in her raids on earthbound cities. Her ultimate goal was world domination. She briefly reformed and helped to fight the Axis, but the Sorceress quickly returned to her wicked ways and her mad quest for power.
Description: A vigilante of Ancient Republic Rome, Caius Martius was given by the gods the power of flight so that he might fight for the rights of the average citizen. One day, he took on an evil sorcerer and was trapped in a block of stone. Later, he emerged in the modern era from the stone to find himself in an American museum. He takes a new last name, "Wheeler," and begins fighting crime in modern society with his new sidekick, Ace, the Amazing Boy, who joins Dart after witnessing a horrifying drive-by shooting which kills his parents. The dart can fly and wields a sword in combat.
Description: Ken Wyman comes from a wealthy family in banking but prefers life as a reporter for the Carterville Daily Blade. However, he was also the crime fighter known as Devil's Dagger. Dressed in a top hat and tux, he used a signature red-handled stiletto and the Speed Ghost, a super fast car driven by his chauffeur, Pat Gleason.
Description: Rueben Ruebens was a young orphan who ran away from the orphanage. He hid out in an old castle, but discovered it was his ancestor's home. His ancestors still haunted the castle as ghosts, all sharing the same name as their descendant, and wanted to help him. The ghosts each gave him the powers they possessed in life: strength, wisdom, speed, invulnerability, and courage. All he needed to do to use these powers was call out "Hey Rube" and he would transform into Red Rube, a fully grown hero.
Description: The Flying Dutchman was an aviator from the Netherlands whose family was killed. He takes revenge for his family by killing the murderers and then flying as an air mercenary for the Allies. His identity is never revealed but his first name is hinted as being Jan. The Flying Dutchman battled such enemies as the Deathless Brain. In addition to being an ace fighter pilot, the Flying Dutchman was also a good fist fighter, and usually carried a pair of handguns on his hips.
Description: Mysterious, beautiful and cloaked with an unknown identity, Madame Strange matched her nerve and strength against grim foes who threatened America's far-flung air outposts and naval stations. To accompany her amazing physical speed and strength, Strange was blessed with a great arm and pin-point accuracy which she displayed on several occasions, wielding a plethora of throwing knives often used to best her enemies.
Description: George Chance, the Ghost, knows real magic, learning it when he was raised in India as the adopted son of an immortal yogi teacher. A woman named Betty helped him. His Archenemy was time traveller Professor Fenton. The Ghost once traveled back in time to King Arthur's court in order to stop the villainous Professor Fenton. While there he met Merlin, Morgan le Fay, Sir Kay, and King Arthur himself.
Description: The son of Father Neptune, the Shark (or Shark-Man) is called such because he is often seen in the company of large, man-eating sharks. He once lived in an undersea kingdom but set out to fight against all crimes committed at sea. His powers included the ability to live underwater and hypnotism, and he is also a skilled inventor and swimmer (thanks to webbed hands and feet).
Description: The Iron Skull was originally a soldier who was gravely injured during World War II (which, in this timeline, was fought partially on American soil well into 1950s). He was brought to Chicago, where Dr. Watson, a surgeon at "Chicago Hospital," worked to replace his flesh and bones with metallic components. The resulting cyborg was super-strong, resistant to bullets and capable of limited telepathy. His new face was missing a nose, giving him a skull-like appearance. By the year 1960, the Second World War wound down and reconstruction began. This year also saw a rise of rampant crime that the police struggled to contain. The cyborg decided to use his abilities to fight crime in Chicago as the Iron Skull.
Description: Dianne Grayton was a wealthy and beautiful young woman who grew bored and decided to become "the most horrible dispenser of justice of all times." She started disguising herself as a classic Halloween witch and using her spiders to scare and punish villains. Her power is to control black widow spiders. She is also athletic and a skilled fighter.
Description: Marga the Panther Woman was raised by a group of black panthers and inoculated with their abilities such as superhuman strength and cat-like claws. She was a highly skilled fighter, hunter and athlete, capable of bending steel bars, punching out an elephant, or swinging a lion by its tail. She was at one time, aided by a former police dog named Homer. She eventually left the jungle to joins her aviator boyfriend Ted Grant on adventures.
Description: Samar, as a child, was adopted and raised in the jungle by a nomadic tribe in India (though, at times, the comic treated it as if it were Africa). Samar dealt with jungle foes such as Mona, Queen of the Apes, Cavemen, the Panther Men, the Bat-Men, and the Hyena-Men. Samar also dealt with two different Amazon tribes the Amazons of Nesbo and Lazana's Amazons.
Description: Ray Cardell was looking through his telescope one evening when he was suddenly struck by an unknown beam of energy. After being exposed to this mysterious energy, Ray gains X-ray vision and the ability to paralyze/burn people with eye beams. He believed his new powers will "strike terror into the hearts of the most hardened criminals". So, He becomes the crime fighter Master Key.
Description: Marine Sergeant Terry Gardner, a former private detective and former champion wrestler, tangles with some Germans, who seek to murder Wilmer, the man Gardner is protecting. A gypsy is killed. The gypsy's parrot, named Snoopy, helps Gardner to avenge his owner's death. Snoopy visits Gardner and inspires him by giving him a card telling him that "At Twilight you will be Master." Thus inspired, Terry buys a costume for himself and begins fighting crime as Twilight.
Description: Alan Armstrong was an expert pilot, a wealthy playboy, and the confidant of his fiancé Eve's father, Admiral Corby. The Admiral suspected that spies had infiltrated America and needed help, so Armstrong put on a costume and became the Spy Smasher. When WWII ended, he changed his name to Crime Smasher and shifted his focus towards fighting crime. Eve sometimes helps him since she knows his secret identity.
Description: Mary Roche was originally a dancer at a Paris night club. She was known as "Black Venus" because of her beauty and the black curve-hugging bodysuit. She was engaged to Jean Cartier, a lawyer. Unfortunately for Jean, her dancing captured the attention of Yamato, an attache to the Japanese embassy in Paris. Upon learning of Jean's existence, he arranged to have him killed. Her quest for vengeance led her to study flying. She put her flying skills to use by masquerading as Black Venus, a black-suited aviatrix who flew a black customized Lockheed P-38 long-range interceptor.
Description: Wonder Boy was the last survivor of the planet Viro. He escaped his home world's explosion on a spaceship, crashing into the heart of Chicago. He survived, but when he tried to explain his origin to the local police, they didn't believe him and placed him in an orphanage. When he heard that a Mongol warlord was trying to invade Europe, he left the orphanage and stopped the warlord's forces single-handedly. He decided to continue to use his superhuman abilities to fight criminals. Wonder Boy had "the strength of a thousand men" as well as super speed.
Description: Jim Brant was a private investigator who operated in New York City. He used a suit of transparent cellulose to fight crime as the Voice, the Invisible Detective. The suit, which was invented by Professor Bert Wilson, granted its wearer invisibility for 24 hours after it was treated with sigma rays.
Description: Tom Wood was a factory worker and a failed inventor. Years ago, he invented a "Micro-Mask" - a full-face mask that contained a built-in microphone (which allowed him to amplify and throw his voice), a hearing amplifier, and "photoelectric lenses" that gave him x-ray vision. When his brother, Jim Wood, was shot by gangsters, Tom promised to avenge his death.To that end, he decided to use his invention and an old masquerade costume to become the crime-fighter known as Micro-Face.
Description: Black X (sometimes known as Black Ace) was a charming American spy who fought the enemies of freedom both overseas and back in the states. He was originally Richard Spencer, a Washington D.C. bureaucrat and a fierce fighter against corruption. He faked his death in order to continue helping his country without worrying about being targeted. When World War II ended, he retired from spying and became a private investigator.
Description: Grant Richmond was a little-respected junior partner at the law firm of Fuddy and Bustle who felt that the legal system made as much sense as the work of Lewis Carroll. So by night, he put on a costume and became the Mad Hatter. He can shine his top hat insignia against walls to strike fear into criminals, and he also speaks in rhyme.
Description: Jim Collins wandered the American West dispensing justice all the while still being hunted for crime he didn't commit. He was assisted by his sidekick Patsy. His adventures take place in the modern age of automobiles, yet everyone dresses like the old west in this version of Texas. St. John reprinted, re-colored and re-named the character as the Bold Buckeroo, the Masked Blackjack, and the Lone Vigilante.
Description: The Bouncer was originally a statue of the Greek mythology figure Antaeus created by a sculptor named Adam Anteas Jr. The artist was a descendant of Antaeus. The statue however was not normal. In fact whenever danger was near, it came to life. The living statue gave Adam superpowers of super strength and leaping, which it also possessed. Like the mythical Antaeus, Adam and the statue are both vulnerable in mid-bounce.
Description: As Sky Wolf, Larry Wolfe wore a white wolf pelt into battle and headed a three-man flier team. Members of the team include Cocky Roche, who was a cockney, and the Judge, an old Englishman turned down by the R.A.F. because of his age. The last member was "The Turtle," A Polish mute whose tongue was cut out by Germans and who communicated by tapping on his own head in Morse Code. The group flew special planes that split in half to become separate vehicles. In fact, Sky Wolf and his team were such an effective group of Nazi fighters that Adolf Hitler himself was desperate to get rid of them to the point of actually participating in a plan to capture them.
Description: Jack Gatling was known as the best stunt flier in America, but he lost all of his hair flying through a fire earning the nickname of Bald Eagle. Jack worked as the head instructor and chief troubleshooter at a Marine airfield in California, but he managed to destroy an underground Japanese base, becoming a hero. The Bald Eagle continued to fight the Japanese throughout the war. His plane was known as the Flying Coffin.
Description: Ginger Maguire, nicknamed Sky Girl, was the star of several World War II aviation adventures, though she was apparently a genuine less-than-liberated mental lightweight. She was constantly in search of a husband as well as a career in aviation. She eventually managed to get a job ferrying military equipment around the Pacific. Post-war, Sky Girl got a job as a waitress at an airport cafe and dyed her hair blond but still continued to have aerial adventures. She had no super powers, but she could fly a plane...just not very well. She often crashed planes and caused property damage.
Description: Denis Knight was a wealthy American sportsman who inspired by the chivalrous knights of the past, becomes the Green Knight. In this identity, Denis becomes a defender of the defenseless and keeper of justice. While patrolling the Everglades, Denis discovers a young boy has been kidnapped by a blood thirsty Vampire and his hulking minion. After saving the young boy, Lance Cooper, from the monsters, Green Knight adopts him as his crime fighting partner Lance. Green Knight had no powers but he was skilled with a bow/arrow and a sword. He was also capable at hand to hand combat.
Description: Shannon Kane was the wife of Harry Kane, a chemist who worked for the government. Harry was killed by "enemies of his country." In her husband's research she found the “spider‐web fluid” formula, which sticks like glue—and strong enough to swing on! Shannon invented a set of bracelets to shoot out the fluid, and became the sworn enemy of all criminals. Coupled with her athleticism, she became the Spider Queen.
Description: Dean Alder, the head of the Alder Academy, wanted to fight crime and instruct the young. Thanks to the Mystic Garment, a magic robe he wears, he can walk into and out of mirrors and gain powers. When he walks through a mirror, he becomes an intangible and invisible shadow, and he uses these powers to fight evildoers. While a shadow, he can't hold anything, but he can while he is solid and normal.
