Crime
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Fire, Water & 27-QRX
Firebrand Rod Reilly, millionaire society scion, is known to the world as an idle playboy… but wherever crime breaks, wherever the law of the land or people’s rights are menaced, he appears as the dauntless enemy of the underworld… holding aloft his blazing torch of glory. Flashback: Aquaman The story must start with my father,…
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Ladies’ Night Out
Fury, Part 1 It was a day when armored chariots rumbled through the streets, while the blue skies above glistened with the metallic sheen of warbirds bearing death and destruction. It was a time when north-born barbarians ruled Athens and all of Greece. During an escalating argument with her brother, Michael, Helena Kosmatos accused him…
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Hourman & Dr. Fate
Flashback: Rex Tyler On a summer day in 1919 In Ithaca, New York, a mysterious stranger paid 6-year-old Rex Tyler a visit and gave him an hourglass… The memory haunted him until, as an adult, he realized the stranger was his adult self, although he had no explanation for how that could be. Hourman In…
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Crack & Nickel
Red Torpedo James Lockhard was a Navy engineer who invented an amazing one-man submarine he called, “the Red Torpedo.” The Spider In the early 1940s, Tom Hallaway was a millionaire playboy and big game hunter who used his skills to prey on gangsters and racketeers as “the Spider.” Madame Fatal In order to infiltrate criminal…
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1939, Part 3
Dian Belmont One night, a woman broke into the home of Wesley Dodds… In exchange for helping the Sandman round up her gang, he promised to help “the Lady in Evening Clothes” discover the identity of her father… Lawrence Belmont, an accomplished lawyer and district attorney. Subsequent to this revelation, she began to help the…
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1939, Part 2
Libby Lawrence, Pt. 2 In September of 1941, Libby Lawrence was in Poland with her father, Major James Lawrence. Major Lawrence was killed during an air raid by Nazi fighter planes. It was about this time she met Rick Cannon, whom she did not know was an Army intelligence officer and spy for the USA.…
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1939, Part 1
Wesley Dodds, Pt. 4 (The Sandman) Soon after he began having nightmares, Wesley Dodds built a laboratory in his basement and developed a formula for sedatives and hypnotic gases. An encounter with his old friend, Lee Travis, got him thinking about what he was doing with his life as a playboy. –but what if a…
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1938
Flashback: Lee Travis Although his family felt the pinch of the depression, Lee Travis’s godfather, Winston W. Smythe, had weathered the stock market better than most and he paid for Lee’s tuition. However, when Lee joined the Abraham Lincoln brigade in 1936… Winston Smythe had a change of heart, and when he died in the…
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1937
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,…
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