(Mystery Men Comics 009, 1940)
The Moth might just be the platonic ideal of a certain kind of super-hero. Specifically, the kind that would be equally likely to show up for three issues during the height of the Golden Age hero boom and also in a super-hero parody any time from the 60s to today.
I sincerely think that if I spent an afternoon looking through every issue of normalman and What The-! and so forth that I could find (or if I could ever track down a copy of The Mad Book of Almost Superheroes, for that matter), someone identical to the Moth would be hanging out in the background of a panel somewhere.
As far as the man himself goes: a perfectly decent regular Golden Age super-hero: no origin or secret identity, can fly, drops “egg bombs” despite a troubling lack of pockets… the complete package.
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