{"id":3713,"date":"2024-11-02T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:07:52","slug":"minor-super-hero-round-up-027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3713","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-HERO ROUND-UP 027"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guess what? More minor super-heroes, that’s what. <\/p>\n

the Black Arrow<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Black Arrow, aka Rex Norton, is a detective\/pilot, ho-hum. As per standard he has a great codename. (Green Giant Comics 001, 1940)<\/p>\n

the Researcher<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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A dapper super-scientist armed with x-ray flashlights, paralysis-inducing walking sticks and mind-reading rays. Perhaps the most charming thing about him is that everyone from his enemies to his friends to his lab assistant\/love interest refer to him solely as “the Researcher.” (Green Giant Comics 001, 1940)<\/p>\n

the Green Mask<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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The Green Mask started out in Mystery Men Comics<\/i> as your standard Green Hornet or Crimson Avenger style masked vigilante: capable with his fists and with a gun but otherwise an ordinary if unnamed human man, believed by the police and the underworld to actually be a crook and thus hunted by both, the works. <\/p>\n

After about a year and a half, he got a bit of a revamp: the Green Mask is now Michael Shelby, son of Senator Shelby, enemy of crime. In an attempt to prevent the Senator from introducing a law that would make crime illegal<\/i>, gangsters gun him down and shoot up Michael in the process. Lucky for him, family friend Professor Lascomb is present and has a healing vita-ray machine at his disposal – Michael’s life is saved and as happy side effect he is given the power of flight and some ill-defined enhanced physical abilities. His crimefighting career is much the same as before but without the ire of the police. <\/p>\n

(Like Fox Features’ other big non-Blue Beetle heroes Samson and the Flame, in 1941 the Green Mask gets a bit more of a supporting cast, in his case wealthy socialite Olivia Tracy and her bumbling chauffeur Peters. Like Samson and the Flame this didn’t save him from oblivion when Fox had its troubles in 1942-1943 but unlike<\/i> them he did return eventually. Kind of) (Mystery Men Comics 001, 1939\/ Green Mask v1 001, 1940)<\/p>\n

Domino the Miracle Boy<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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In the same story in which the Green Mask becomes super-powered Michael Shelby (and also Michael Shelby becomes the Green Mask) an unnamed youngster is blown up by a grenade and must be healed by Professor Lascomb’s vita-ray. This youth was called Don (no last name forthcoming) and wasn’t just a blown-up teen but a blown-up teen orphan<\/i> and so was summarily adopted by Michael Shelby. Domino’s powers are a little less extensive than the Green Masks, as Prof Lascomb foolishly fixed the vita-ray machine’s short circuit in between the two being treated, the main upshot of which is that Domino doesn’t seem to be able to fly but rather gets around on a rope tied to a boomerang. (Green Mask Comics v1 001, 1940)<\/p>\n

Update 1941<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guess what? More minor super-heroes, that’s what. the Black Arrow: Black Arrow, aka Rex Norton, is a detective\/pilot, ho-hum. As per standard he has a great codename. (Green Giant Comics 001, 1940) the Researcher: A dapper super-scientist armed with x-ray flashlights, paralysis-inducing walking sticks and mind-reading rays. Perhaps the most charming thing about him is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5,78,482,580,496,3,492,4,118,652,2022,101,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-5","category-aviator","category-black-arrow","category-crime-orphan","category-domino-the-miracle-boy","category-fox-features","category-green-mask","category-minor-super-hero","category-pelican-publications","category-radioactive-mutate","category-researcher","category-scientist","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3714,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}