Various Golden Age Heroes (and perhaps the odd Villain)

During the 1940's there was a boom in the number of comics and superheroes. The success of Superman caused a number of companies to jump on the band-wagon and create their own crimefighting heroes, and then when America joined the War there was clearly perceived to be a need for patriotic heroes fighting the evil Axis forces. As well as the characters from the companies who would eventually become Marvel and DC there were the heroes of Fawcett, Centaur, Hillman and Archie. And there were other characters from companies that didn't carry on for long after the era; some of them are covered here. Most have kid sidekicks - rather than list them separately, they'll be covered as part of the profile for the adult character they followed.

Thanks to Ben Samuels whose site provided a number of images used here. Check out his site at http://www.samuelsdesign.com/comics.  Likewise a thanks to Brad Newman for permission to use images from his Comic Book Cover Quest site, and Steve Rogers, whose Golden Years Comic Book Library was also extremely helpful in that respect.

I'd also like to thank Darrin Wiltshire. If you look around this site, you'll see that I like to try and provide every character with some pictorial reference - text is all very good, but most superheroes come from comics, and comics are a visual medium. With Golden Age characters, tracking down images of them from their early appearances (and not a modernised version) can be very tricky (though the aforementioned sites are a good start). Thus I'm indebted to Darrin for letting me use images from his fun Micro Heroes website, where he has pictured a lot of Golden Age characters in accurate versions of their original costumes.

Aviation Press

Black Venus	Flamingo	Flying Phantom	Golden Eagle	Tommy Tomahawk

Bilbara

Mister Q	Tornado Tom	Volton	Robo

Frank Commundale

Gerona

Kosmos Publications

Hip Knox	Invisible Avenger	Marvo 1-2 Go+

Progressive

United Features

Youthful

Gunsmoke	Masked Marvel	Captain Science

Miscellaneous

Atomic Thunderbolt	Captain Flash	Cyclone	Green Giant	Hyper
Kismet	Lone Rider	Lone Rider	Mad Hatter	Moon Girl
Red Knight	The Spirit	Tomboy	Dick Tracy	Captain Power
Master Mystic	Captain Atom	Grimm	Jack of Spades

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