Mystery Men
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Green Lantern
Flashback: The Starheart When we last saw the Starheart, Marco Polo had selected it as a gift of appreciation from Kublai Khan in the form of a green lamp. Then… The patient later transformed it into a modern train lantern (see below.) 1940: Albert Dekker Albert Dekker was a ruthless businessman. Denied the contract to…
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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 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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