In contrast with last week's superhero, today's guy doesn't have luck on his side. Quite the opposite.

Harold Higgins (a name with exactly 13 letters) was never actually a normal person. While on most days he did just fine, he found himself experiencing bad luck when it came to the number 13. This got really bad on his 13th birthday, when his girlfriend died in a freak chandelier accident. On subsequent 13th days, his brother died in a plane crash, Harold lost all his money playing the stock market, his sister got in a debilitating accident that crippled her for life, his father died, yet another one of Harold's girlfriends died, and finally he got fired from his job.

Now, personally I'm not a superstitious sort, but, given the overwhelming amount of evidence for the number 13 being unlucky here, I'd be avoiding it for life. What I wouldn't do is put on a costume with a giant 13 on it and start fighting crime. Harold Higgins disagrees.

Surprisingly, this didn't result in him dying by falling down a flight of stairs. In fact, he ends up being very lucky in his crime fighting escapades (whether this is through usual plot contrivance or genuine supernatural luck is unclear), and he even picked up a sidekick named Jinx (who was exactly 13 years old, and also experienced quite a bit of bad luck). However, like most crimebusters covered here, he didn't last long. He lived for exactly 13 issues... + 2. He had 15 issues.

Today's entry happens to fall on March 17th, otherwise known as St Patrick's day. Good day to those who celebrate it. Today's character is a touch more notable than some of the other entries we've had here since she was actually partially created by Will Eisner (who also created the hero known as "The Spirit")!

Brenda Banks, an Irish-American socialite, had a surprising secret; she was actually a vigilante known as Lady Luck, a Robin Hood-esque figure who took to the streets to beat up blackmailers and spies, much to the annoyance of police chief Hardy Moore... the man whom Brenda loved (though not for long, she found another guy).

Lady Luck had a healthy run, going on for fifty-ish issues and occasionally being bought back when publishers do takes on other characters by Will Eisner, such as the IDW series "Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking" and the 2013 revival of "Phantom Stranger" by DC (the latter, as far as I can tell, is just a personification of Luck that's visually inspired by this character).

Most superheroes from the 1940s were strongly patriotic due to the minor fact that there was a big world war going on at the time - one which necessitated America and other countries creating a national identity for themselves that strongly opposed the Nazis. While many of these 2-bit patriots were capable fighters, very few had as strong an association with Lady Liberty as the Steel Fist did.

Formerly Timothy Slade (very conflicting vibes with that name), the Steel Fist was just an ordinary factory worker until, one day, the Nazis invaded his factory! Remembering how his brother died for his country, Tim tried to fight back, but... well, he wasn't really cut out for it. This resulted in the Nazis dipping their hand in molten steel.

But fortunately for Tim, the steel actually bonded with his flesh, causing him to gain the ability to- just kidding, his arm is fucking mangled and the doctors consider amputating it. Fortunately for him though, Lady Liberty herself sees Tim's plight and takes pity on him. Using her magic abilities, she fixes his arm, making it fully functional again... except now it's made of steel!

Like a very based individual, his immediate instinct upon gaining the strongest fist in the world is to go out and punch Nazis with it. While he is very average in literally any other regard, his fist is a metal bludgeoning weapon and he can use it to annihilate any roaming fash he sees. While he only lasted for 5 issues, his sentiment lives on in all our hearts.

During this series, we discussed superheroes who ended up dying by the end of their run (and, unlike most comic book superheroes, their obscurity meant their deaths were permanent). But what about the ones who died before their hero careers began?

Meet Paddy (sometimes Danny) Sullivan. Once a cop by day, he was killed in the line of duty and ended up as a ghost. Once he realised this, Paddy made the bold, noble, and brave decision to become a total dork. Rebranding himself as "The Duke of Darkness" (though I wouldn't be surprised if this wasn't the first time he tried out this name), he went around in his ghostly way, stopping crimes of both the mundane and supernatural variety.

Now, you may think his being a ghost would mean his adventures are pretty low stakes (I mean, how do you kill a ghost?), but, despite being intangible and very strong, he can also be knocked out by a simple thwack to the head. How does that work? I don't know, I'm not a ghost expert here.

Now, you may have noticed that, conceptually, this superhero is actually pretty sick. I mean, surely he had quite a few comics, right? No. He had 4 total appearances, and the 4th one was only on the cover. Life's unfair.