It's fairly common for heroes covered here to not have any form of civilian identity, with some going as far as not even giving us a name for these characters outside of their superhero persona. This isn't done to be mysterious or anything, they just don't care - they're just throwing heroes at the wall hoping one of them sticks... but they don't tend to. Except Magno.

Meet Magno, Master of Magnet. That's his main power - he can use the powers of magnetism to fly around, control various metal objects and, like all good heroes, beat up Nazis. Basically, he's Magneto, but if he were one of the good guys. Despite Magno not even bothering to wear a mask, he's surprisingly difficult to trace to any civilian identity. Maybe he doesn't even have a life, maybe he's just Magno 24/7. Curiously, his boy sidekick took the opposite approach, going by his real-life name "Davey Landis" in lieu of a superhero name.

Unlike many heroes covered here, Magno actually had a recurring Rogues Gallery, including esteemed members such as Cobra (who just naturally had fangs and so dresses up as a snake and fights Nazis) and The Clown (not to be confused with the cop-turned-clown hero I've covered previously).

Another surprise is just how long this guy lasted. 34 issues of Super-Mystery Comics, and 26 of Four Favourites, that is a long run for one of these people - especially one who doesn't have any form of civilian identity. It's no surprise then that he has also been reused in modern days, though so far he's mainly been relegated to a minor appearance in Project Superpowers.

John Force (otherwise known as "The Magic Agent") is a fascinating character due to just how much we don't know about him. He wears an eyepatch (this comic came out a year before Nick Fury's first appearance btw), hinting towards some form of injury, but we don't know how he got it. We also don't know how he got the magic coin from which he gets all his powers.

The coin had four greek pillars, corresponding to different powers (helpfully labelled) including Telepathy, Illusion, Hypnosis, and Extra-sen Perception... a very odd collection of powers there, I must admit.

While a magical secret agent has great potential (he's probably one of the characters most deserving of some sort of revival), he unfortunately only lasted for 3 issues.

It occurs to me I should probably have some sort of pinned post if I intend to use this place as a way to share my work, so:

Carrd https://marvelousmop.carrd.co/

Series:

• Jenny Over-There: 925 Universe (A workplace comedy about Jenny Over-There, an aggrieved woman who works at an eldritch call centre with the goal of helping people across the multiverse locate various 'thingies'. Main cast also includes The Man in Grey and public domain superhero Dynamite Thor) https://archiveofourown.org/series/2955447
• The Journal of Dr. Daniel Garret (Alternate history series detailing Dr. Garret's encounters with Superheroes in the mid-1900s) https://dangarretjournal.tumblr.com/

Miscellaneous Shorts:

• Base Named Solace 5 (10,000 Dawns) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Spirits-Bright-Halloween-Winter/dp/B09P1QPNSN
• Marksmanship-522 in a Passable Adventure with Doctor Omega (Crew of Copper Colored Cupids) https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/2022/07/23/marksmanship-522-in-a-passable-adventure-with-doctor-omega/
• Academy 27:
  • Hall Pass (Chopping Mall but in a School and with less death) https://www.arcbeatlepress.com/news-and-updates/academy-27-hall-pass-by-callum-phillpott-warsong
  • A27: The Roleplaying Game (Session 5 "Torn Apart", loosely based off "The Room" - technically the Disaster Artist) https://www.arcbeatlepress.com/news-and-updates/press-release-arcbeatle-press-is-now-a27
• The Cosmology of Sherlock Holmes ("Sherlock Versus Herlock" & "Dark Dealings") https://www.arcbeatlepress.com/news-and-updates/a-lost-holmes-manuscript-discovered-the-cosmology-of-sherlock-holmes

Pride month is coming to a close, and unfortunately I spent most of it talking about spiders here... to be fair, most of the queer people I know like spiders (even more specifically the spiders-men), but I understand that it doesn't quite constitute representation, so I set off to find something substantive to present today! Unfortunately, most public domain heroes are quite straight, so I settled for one who happened to have "gay" in his name (but like in the old fashioned way).

Jim Collins was just your average Joe - or I guess average Jim in his case - until, one day, he got framed for a crime he didn't commit! So now he's constantly on the run, dispensing justice wherever he goes... yeah, that's a good enough reason.

Jim wasn't alone however, since he was followed by a sidekick named Patsy. Presumably Jim hoped that, if anyone tried to frame him for any further crimes, his sidekick would take the fall for him instead.

Now, looking at this comic, you might assume his stories take place in the old west... you are a fool. These stories are set in modern day 1940s America - specifically Texas - it just also happens that everything looks like it's the Old West.

THe Gay Desperado lasted for technically 13 issues, but also had several reprints under different names and with different colourations - he was also Lone Vigilante (bit on the nose), Masked Blackjack (whose real name was Tom), and Bold Buckaroo (who presumably got his cowboy name from Chuck Tingle).

Happy Pride!