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Fate comic character

Who Is Fate? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Fate (DC Comics): Originally Jared was a smuggler of precious artifacts and art pieces but when he came into the possession of the Helmet of Nabu his life was changed f

Lobo comic character

Who Is Lobo? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Lobo (DC Comics): The last of the Czarnians, Lobo is known and feared across the universe as a bounty hunter who never misses his mark. Super-strong, immortal and unsto

Amethyst comic character

Who Is Amethyst? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Amethyst (DC Comics): "Amy Winston" is the long lost princess of Amethyst on Gemworld. She was also a Lord of Order before the New 52 reboot.

Child comic character

Who Is Child? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Child (DC Comics): Child and Flaw are Lords of Chaos and are arch enemies to Amethyst Lord of Order.

Bloodwynd comic character

Who Is Bloodwynd? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Bloodwynd (DC Comics): Bloodwynd is an extremely enigmatic necromancer that uses a powerful mystic relic, the Blood Gem, to fight the forces of evil. The gem grants its user

Felix Faust comic character

Who Is Felix Faust? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Felix Faust (DC Comics): A 5000-year-old villainous sorcerer who is one of the Justice League of America's first adversaries.

Dark Opal comic character

Who Is Dark Opal? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Dark Opal (DC Comics): Dark Opal is a great master of the mystic arts. On a world where everyone is a magician, he has but one rival - Amethyst. Dark Opal is an expert with

Danu comic character

Who Is Danu? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Danu (In the Public Domain): Danu is one of the few original Goddesses. The druids, who dislike the rule of women, would try to replace her with male gods. Slaine is her champion

Arnold Burnsteel comic character

Who Is Arnold Burnsteel? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Arnold Burnsteel (DC Comics): Scare Tactics manager and bus driver.

Kent Nelson comic character

Who Is Kent Nelson? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Kent Nelson (DC Comics): When young Kent Nelson was manipulated into killing his father, Sven, during an expedition in Mesopotamia when he unwittingly awoke Nabu from suspecte

Inza Nelson comic character

Who Is Inza Nelson? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Inza Nelson (DC Comics): Wife of Kent Nelson she graced the Golden Age comics, forever young due to Dr. Fate's powerful magics. Inza also went on to be one of several people t

Don Fortunato comic character

Who Is Don Fortunato? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Don Fortunato (Marvel): A mob boss allied with Hydra and the Maggia.

Fredric Wertham comic character

Who Is Fredric Wertham? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Fredric Wertham (Non-Fictional): origin, story and key facts about the character.

Boris Karloff comic character

Who Is Boris Karloff? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Boris Karloff (Non-Fictional): Actor.

Synn comic character

Who Is Synn? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Synn (AC Comics): Synn is one of the few original characters on the AC Comics, FemForce team of all-female superheroes.

Torchy comic character

Who Is Torchy? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Torchy (Quality Comics): Torchy Todd, from the Army straight into our.... hearts.

The Claw comic character

Who Is The Claw? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

The Claw (In the Public Domain): The Claw is a golden age supervillan of Daredevil and Silver Streak. “A monster of miraculous powers who is out to dominate the universe,” The Claw wa

She-Cat comic character

Who Is She-Cat? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

She-Cat (AC Comics): She's the most vicious and deadly of the FemForce members.

Stardust comic character

Who Is Stardust? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Stardust (AC Comics): The hero named Stardust was born on the distant planet Rur, Dr. Mara was viewed as the world’s top scientific mind. Seeking help for her people from t

Darkfire comic character

Who Is Darkfire? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Darkfire (AC Comics): Enemy of Femforce, this mind controlling villainess uses the mind controlling "Mento Helmet" in her bid for power.

Valkyra comic character

Who Is Valkyra? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Valkyra (AC Comics): Having traveled through time, Heidi Astrid Kleinschlossen claims to be the Danish heroine Valkyra but is actually a villain who has worked for Lady Lu

Tara comic character

Who Is Tara? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Tara (AC Comics): The beautiful naturalist Tara Fremont is the granddaughter of the 1940's heroine Rio Rita and an original member of the all-female superhero team, Fem

Atoman comic character

Who Is Atoman? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Atoman (Spark Publications): Atoman first appeared in 1946 in Spark Comics, but the publisher became defunct and thus the character of Atoman is considered Public Domain. The char

Captain Paragon comic character

Who Is Captain Paragon? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Captain Paragon (AC Comics): First appears as Latigo Kid.

Commando D comic character

Who Is Commando D? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Commando D (AC Comics): His home-world destroyed the powerful size altering Commando D travels to Earth to further protect his worlds history and his newly adopted home from

Buckaroo Betty comic character

Who Is Buckaroo Betty? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Buckaroo Betty (AC Comics): Elizabeth Fury had taken the role of Sheriff after the murder of her husband Mike Bates in Apache, Texas during the late 19th Century. She is pulled t

Green Lama comic character

Who Is Green Lama? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Green Lama (In the Public Domain): Green Lama's first appearance was in December 1940, during the Golden Age of Comics. He is now a key figure in Dynamite Entertainment's comic "Project

Purple Claw comic character

Who Is Purple Claw? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Purple Claw (In the Public Domain): It's not the man, it's the Claw, the Purple Claw... but the man helps

Rayda comic character

Who Is Rayda? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Rayda (AC Comics): Rayda is one of the numerous members of AC Comics all-female superhero team, Femforce, which attempts to keep the Golden Age of comics alive.

Miss Masque comic character

Who Is Miss Masque? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Miss Masque (In the Public Domain): Miss Masque's first appearance was in Exciting Comics #51. Now a part of Dynamite Entertainments 'Project Superpowers' she has returned from the Urn o

Yankee Girl comic character

Who Is Yankee Girl? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Yankee Girl (AC Comics): Originally a Golden Age character, Lauren Mason, AKA Yankee Girl, is a super heroine granted with the powers of the American Spirit. The character is

Catman comic character

Who Is Catman? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Catman (In the Public Domain): Cat-Man was a costumed super-hero who was published by a golden age publisher, Holyoke, from 1940 through 1946.

Kitten comic character

Who Is Kitten? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Kitten (In the Public Domain): Kitten is Cat-Man's sidekick during the Golden Age of Comic Books. Later, Kitten became member of the woman group known as FemForce and The Inheritors

Tails comic character

Who Is Tails? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Tails (Sega): Miles 'Tails' Prower, the two tailed fox, is Sonic The Hedgehogs best friend and a genius inventor for the Freedom Fighters.

Princess Sally comic character

Who Is Princess Sally? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Princess Sally (Sega): Sole heir to the kingdom of Acorn. Sally is the leader of the resistance movement against Robotnik and carries a sentient mini-computer named NICOLE.

Rotor comic character

Who Is Rotor? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Rotor (Archie Comics): Rotor is the former mechanic of the Freedom Fighters and former member of the Mobotopolis Restoration Committee. Rotor now serves as the field leader

Doc comic character

Who Is Doc? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Doc (Hasbro): Doc is a medic for the G.I. Joe team.

Madman comic character

Who Is Madman? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Madman (Creator-Owned): Frank Einstein is the snappiest hero around.

Dr. Boiffard comic character

Who Is Dr. Boiffard? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Dr. Boiffard (Image): Dr. Boiffard was the doctor who resurrected Frank Einstein, Madman. He worked with the evil Mr. Monstadt, who tried to kill him when Boiffard wanted t

Morbius comic character

Who Is Morbius? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Morbius (Marvel): Once Michael Morbius was a world-renowned bio-chemist, dying of an unknown blood disease and desperately searching for a cure. He found that cure, but