Upon looking at this hero, you may notice that both his name and costume are really similar to another, more famous Superhero… I’m ofcourse talking about Cat-Man.

Cat-Man (formerly David Merryweather) was just your average child until, one day, his entire family was killed in just vaguely The Jungle. Left alone, a Tiger found him and raised him to be the best catboy known to man. After a while, he made his way back to America and took on the persona of Cat-Man (with a hyphen), fighting crime using his special cat powers. He also got a sidekick who, dissapointingly, is named “Kitten” rather than Catboy.

This comic series was also sent to Australia and published by Frew Publications. This was going well until, one day, Wartime rules meant imports of these comic books ceased… but Frew was attached to this character, so what do they do?

Introducing Catman (without the hyphen). Catman looks an awful lot like Cat-Man, except their costume is green instead of orange (not that it made much difference since the comics were printed in black and white). We don’t know who Catman is besides the fact that he lives in Australia and is joined by a sidekick known as Kit.

Every time I geek out about Golden Age superheroes, I'm really just delaying the part where I talk about Dynamite Thor (my favourite one due to just being a terrible idea for a Superhero)

Joe Blair was just your average private dick with a dream… sadly, his detective day job didn’t give him many opportunities to fulfil that dream until, one day, he saw an opportunity to fulfil it. This one case required him to act quickly, and luckily Joe had something to help him with that…

Turbo-charged heelies!

So yeah, unlike most speedster characters, Zippo gets his speed from wearing big wheels on his feet (which is presumably hell when he’s trying to walk short distances).

Some Public Domain Superheroes also happen to be cops. This raises the question of why they'd need to take on an alias and put on an identity-concealing costume to fight crime when not only do they do that on a daily basis, but they're getting paid to do it. I don't have this question for Alias the Dragon.

Sgt. Bill Norton is closely associated with the police... except he has a secret. By night, he wears a red and green costume and calls himself "Alias the Dragon"... clearly, there's something systemically wrong with the police if a sergeant couldn't think of a better alias than "Alias".

He hasn't got any powers. He's presumably been through police training, but he doesn't put that knowledge to use when he's Alias (or at least I fucking hope what he does isn't part of training). When Alias is fighting a crime, he uses his flamethrower.

Perhaps the most comforting thing to know is that he only ever made 1 appearance. He'd be perfect for bringing back under a satirical lens, much like how Peacemaker has been used recently, or what Judge Dredd has evolved into (Judge Dredd has always been satirical, but it wasn't always violent).