CODEX OMNIVERSA

Nadir, Master of Magic

Nadir is in truth a prince of India, but for reasons of his own he chooses to ignore his title – because of a tragedy in his early life, which resulted in the death of his father and mother, he has devoted his life to the elimination of crime. Being wealthy, and well educated both in the modern ways of our western world, and the many long-forgotten secrets of the far east he is able to carry on his untiring and deadly prosecution of crime, wherever he chooses…

Wesley Dodds, Pt. 3

When Dream was captured, Wesley Dodds began having nightmares.

An idea came to him in his sleep. Soon, he’d no longer dream about the man in the strange helmet with the burning eyes.

Cyril “Speed” Saunders

In every large city there are the G-men. In every large seaport there are G-men known as the harbor police. “Speed” Cyril Saunders is a special operative in a unit of the river patrol.

After one particular case:

Samuel “Slam” Bradley

Slam Bradley was an “ace freelance sleuth, fighter and adventurer.” During one particular case:

When Slam springs into action he’s a veritable cyclone! Swifter than the eye can follow he swoops down on Fuji Onyui and kicking his feet forward, lets the deadly Tong killer have it right on the button next –

Bart Regan, Spy

In the mid-1930s…

During his first mission, he broke-up with his fiancée, Sally Norris, who continued to pursue him relentlessly.

Four months later, Sally became a spy herself.

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Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson’s New Comics and More Fun Comics met with inconsistent sales results in their new market. However, he had a persistent desire to launch a third book and found a partner to help finance it. In March of 1937, Wheeler-Nicholson and Harry Donenfeld published Detective Comics #1. Along with Jack Liebowitz, they founded a new publishing company, Detective Comics, Inc. Unfortunately for Wheeler-Nicholson, financial issues forced him out of the company, leaving the two other men to secure his assets.

Detective Comics was the first comic devoted to a single theme: crimefighting. It also looked different, with bigger panels and fewer of them on a page. Also, most stories ran longer and were completed within the same issue rather than continuing to the next.Detective Comics featured two stories by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster (“Bart Regan, Spy” and “Slam Bradley) and one by Wheeler-Nicholson himself (“The Claws of the Red Dragon.”)