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Daredevil T-Shirt Design by CoverTales

Not to be confused with the Marvel character, this Daredevil is an American comic book superhero that starred in popular comics during the 1930s-1940s. He was introduced as Bart Hill, who as a child had been rendered mute by the shock of seeing his father killed and himself being branded with a hot iron. Orphaned, he grew up to become a marksman with the boomerang, an homage to the boomerang-shaped scar left on his chest. He wore a pale yellow and dark blue costume. In the following issue, only Hill's identity, spiked belt, and the boomerang remained, the mute angle was dropped without explanation, and his original costume of pale yellow and dark blue was redesigned to a dark red and blue.

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Black Venus T-Shirt Design by CoverTales

Mary Roche was originally a dancer at a Paris night club. She was known as "Black Venus" because of her beauty and the black curve-hugging bodysuit. She was engaged to Jean Cartier, a lawyer. Unfortunately for Jean, her dancing captured the attention of Yamato, an attache to the Japanese embassy in Paris. Upon learning of Jean's existence, he arranged to have him killed. Her quest for vengeance led her to study flying. She put her flying skills to use by masquerading as Black Venus, a black-suited aviatrix who flew a black customized Lockheed P-38 long-range interceptor.

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Wonder Boy T-Shirt Design by CoverTales

Wonder Boy was the last survivor of the planet Viro. He escaped his home world's explosion on a spaceship, crashing into the heart of Chicago. He survived, but when he tried to explain his origin to the local police, they didn't believe him and placed him in an orphanage. When he heard that a Mongol warlord was trying to invade Europe, he left the orphanage and stopped the warlord's forces single-handedly. He decided to continue to use his superhuman abilities to fight criminals. Wonder Boy had "the strength of a thousand men" as well as super speed.

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Master Key T-Shirt Design by CoverTales

Ray Cardell was looking through his telescope one evening when he was suddenly struck by an unknown beam of energy. After being exposed to this mysterious energy, Ray gains X-ray vision and the ability to paralyze/burn people with eye beams. He believed his new powers will "strike terror into the hearts of the most hardened criminals". So, He becomes the crime fighter Master Key.

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Spy Smasher T-Shirt Design by CoverTales

Alan Armstrong was an expert pilot, a wealthy playboy, and the confidant of his fiancé Eve's father, Admiral Corby. The Admiral suspected that spies had infiltrated America and needed help, so Armstrong put on a costume and became the Spy Smasher. When WWII ended, he changed his name to Crime Smasher and shifted his focus towards fighting crime. Eve sometimes helps him since she knows his secret identity.

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Lu-Nar T-Shirt Design by CoverTales

This naive alien with super-strength tries to right wrongs and fight crime on Earth even though he considers all earthlings stupid!

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Marga - The Panther Woman T-Shirt Design by CoverTales

Marga the Panther Woman was raised by a group of black panthers and inoculated with their abilities such as superhuman strength and cat-like claws. She was a highly skilled fighter, hunter and athlete, capable of bending steel bars, punching out an elephant, or swinging a lion by its tail. She was at one time, aided by a former police dog named Homer. She eventually left the jungle to joins her aviator boyfriend Ted Grant on adventures.

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Twilight T-Shirt Design by CoverTales

Marine Sergeant Terry Gardner, a former private detective and former champion wrestler, tangles with some Germans, who seek to murder Wilmer, the man Gardner is protecting. A gypsy is killed. The gypsy's parrot, named Snoopy, helps Gardner to avenge his owner's death. Snoopy visits Gardner and inspires him by giving him a card telling him that "At Twilight you will be Master." Thus inspired, Terry buys a costume for himself and begins fighting crime as Twilight.

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Samar T-Shirt Design by CoverTales

Samar, as a child, was adopted and raised in the jungle by a nomadic tribe in India (though, at times, the comic treated it as if it were Africa). Samar dealt with jungle foes such as Mona, Queen of the Apes, Cavemen, the Panther Men, the Bat-Men, and the Hyena-Men. Samar also dealt with two different Amazon tribes the Amazons of Nesbo and Lazana's Amazons.

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Madam Satan T-Shirt Design by CoverTales

Madam Satan was a mortal woman. When she found out her fiancé's parents didn't approve of her impending marriage, she murdered them. As they were dying, they managed to tell their son who had done the deed. Naturally, the fiancé wasn't happy to hear that, and he wound up killing her. The murderess went to Hell, where she became a loyal servant to Satan himself. Her job was to seduce men into losing their souls. Brother Sunbeam was her arch-enemy. He tried to capture her in a bottle but, never could.