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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 102

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 102

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You won’t believe what I just found: more super-heroes! the Liberty Scouts: When fascist forces armed with high-tech weaponry begin attacking targets calculated to cripple US war capacity, they are repeatedly driven away by a trio of anonymous heroes who leave behind Liberty Bell calling cards. Both the fascists and US officials are eager to learn just who these so-called Liberty Patriots are, but President Roosevelt is the one who actually gets to find out, thanks to his association with…

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SUPER HERO FILE 003: CAPTAIN AMERICA

SUPER HERO FILE 003: CAPTAIN AMERICA

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(Captain America Comics 001, 1940) Captain America! Hitler-Puncher Number One! Quite possibly in the top five of super-heroics’ most well-known origins – a young man, physically unfit for the military but wishing to serve his country, is transformed into a super soldier with a combination of chemicals and radiation. The scientist responsible for this is murdered by an enemy spy rendering the young man a unique hero rather than the first of many. His first act as a hero is…

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MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 091

MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 091

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Have a few mid-tier minor super-heroes, for a change. the Black Terror: Pharmacist Bob Benton is the kind of guy who will step in when a little kid is being roughed up by thugs, but despite this he is pretty relentlessly bullied by city Comptroller Rodney Clark* and (in a less overt but still insidious way) their mutual love interest Jean Starr. * Clark is such a bully, in fact, that I assumed that he was going to eventually turn out…

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MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 959: THE INVISIBLE MENACE

MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 959: THE INVISIBLE MENACE

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(Dynamic Comics 002, 1941) It’s a story as old as comics and then some: an inventor has come up with a cool superscientific gizmo – in this case an invisibility serum – and no sooner are they done than some gangsters come stiffing around looking to exploit it. This particular gang is headed by an unnamed and trigger-happy fellow who guns down the scientist and then his own men in order to get his mitts on the single available dose…

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