Crime
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Pre-War Pt. 3
Robotman For years, Dr. Robert Crane and his assistant, Chuck Grayson, worked to perfect a mechanical robot. When Crane was shot during a robbery and lay dying, Grayson successfully performed an operation to put his brain into the skull of the robot. Grayson had been accused of killing Crane and was arrested. Crane fashioned a…
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Pre-War Pt. 2
Liberty Belle When we last saw Libby Lawrence, Rick Cannon had helped her escape from Poland to Amsterdam. Then… …he helped her escape to France, but she arrived just as the country surrendered to Hitler a month later. Then, one more time, he helped her escape to the United States. Libby became a darling of…
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Pre-War Pt. 1
Clarice Winston When we last saw Clarice Winston, Jim Corrigan had bargained to save her life and was bound with the Spectre Force. Soon after, he told her there was no future between them (because he was dead) and said goodbye. I can’t explain in a way to make you understand. It’s just how it…
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Quick Vigilante
Johnny Quick When young Johnny Chambers’ parents were killed in a car crash, Professor Ezra Gill became his guardian. Gill was a genius mathematician working on a formula for something he called, “the secret of space and time.” Gill told Johnny that when he died, he would pass the formula to him if he’d swear…
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Mid-1941
Ian Karkull, Pt. 2 After Dr. Fate left Ian Karkull a shadow to roam the world, Karkull met another villain, Wotan, whom, Dr. Fate had encased in an air bubble and left to die. The diabolic duo capture Inza and when Dr. Fate inevitably recused her… Update: Blackhawk When we first heard of Death Mayhew,…
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Shining Shadows
Ian Karkull One evening Kent Nelson and Inza attended a house party hosted by Everett Dahlen, an archeologist who sought the lost city of Ragnor in the Sahara with his partner, Ian Karkull. The party ended early when Dahlen was discovered dead and Nelson witnessed a strange, shadow-like creature leaving through the window. Meanwhile, in…
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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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