CoverTales

Wrestler Brett Carson possessed super strength that he used to fight crime. He was assisted by his sidekicks, Kid Muscles and Miss Muscles. His identity was publicly known.

"Mother! I've turned the cooling unit back on. Mother!"

Fear is the mind-killer.

Rick, Pammy, Tyg, Digger, and Bogey.

Young Billy Wood received a jetpack Rocket Man and Rocket Girl sent to him. Using his jetpack to fly and fight crime as Rocket Boy, Billy also used it to search for his missing father. After escaping being kidnapped and fighting off natives, Rocket Boy discovered his father was being held captive by Ed Stevens, who wanted to know the location of a diamond mine. When Rocket Boy came to his father's rescue, Stevens released a lion to kill them. Billy tied up the lion and saved his father's life.

Grape Ape, and Beegle Beagle, his canine partner.

Heathcliff and the gang.

I hates those meeces to pieces!

The world's biggest little detective.

Please! I object in the name of the trees!

Hoppity Hooper, Fillmore and Uncle Waldo.

I want my two hundred dollars.

Welcome to the Land of Wuz.

Breezly Bruin and Sneezly Seal.

Bogey, Tyg, Rick, Pammy and Digger.

To slay the dragon, use the magic sword.

Fievel Mousekewitz

Foofur and his friends.

Jumpin’ Jupiter!

Pure, kind-hearted, and a great sense of justice.

Known for their warm hearts.

Dumbo and his loyal friend Timothy Q. Mouse.

I customized that bike for myself. It's too wild, you couldn't handle it.

Gamers!

Biskitt Island.

Captain Kidd was a heroic freelance aviator who fought villains such as Von Haupt, the Voice, Negus, Queen Izzuki and the Almond-Eyed Amazons, the Great White Chief and his monsters, Perez, the Lama, a fire god, a Chinese vampire named Lu Chieng, Dr. Moro, Sedden, and Hi Lung. He was also a sailor and sailed with his lifelong friend Freddy in his second published adventure.

Billy Bounce was a young boy from an unnamed American small town which didn't have a whole lot of crime. He wanted to be a detective, but he wasn't terribly good at it. He was inept at interpreting clues, making disguises, and following leads. Billy made up for it with his unusual strength and sheer dumb luck. And to give the boy his credit, he kept trying to become a good detective no matter how often he screwed up.

When Gary was a baby, his father, Charteris Preston, worked as a missionary in China. The elder Preston was washed away in a flood but managed to save baby Gary by placing him in a basket. The basket was washed downstream to Tibet, where Gary was rescued by a group of lamas. They raised Gary, and trained him in their mystical ways. Gary obtained the ability to control fire and heat. He can raise his own body temperature to the point where he can burst into flames or melt bullets. He can control and direct any flame in his presence. He can also teleport from place to place by appearing inside of any fire source, no matter how small.

The Cisco Kid was the “Robin Hood of the Old West,” taking on evil ranchers, mining companies, stagecoach robbers, and anyone else who threatened the settlers on the American frontier in the 19th century. With the aid of comedic sidekick Pancho and his intrepid horse Diablo, Cisco patrolled the plains and high desert in pulp magazines, paperbacks, TV and radio shows, and comic books during the 1940s and ’50s.

Joe Blair was a private detective. When a defense manufacturer hired him to investigate the inexplicable defections of his workers, he decided to use it as an opportunity to test his new invention and become a crime-fighter known as Zippo. Zippo was a moderately skilled detective. He has low-level super-speed thanks to his costume's wheeled feet. The wheels were powered by compressed air and controlled using his belt. With the wheels, Zippo could travel up to 65 mph.

Richard Curtis Van Loan is a wealthy socialite who after serving in World War I becomes bored and craves the same level of "excitement" that he became used to in the trenches of the Great War. After being challenged to solve a crime that has baffled the police by his friend Frank Havens, publisher of the New York Clarion, Van Loan finds that he in fact has some ability as a detective. Solving mysteries provides Van Loan with the excitement he craves and so begins the career of the dilettante amateur sleuth, The Phantom Detective.

Rusty Adams works by day as a copy boy for the Daily Herald. When danger threatens, however, he puts on a costume and becomes "Crash Kid, boy nemesis to gangdom!" He has no superpowers.

Charles Gibson, a wealthy scientist, was experimenting with electricity and chemicals when lightning struck his lab. The electrical shock caused the lab to explode, but Gibson emerged from the wreckage with a body that could conduct and generate electricity. Swearing to use his powers for the good of humanity, he decided to fight crime as Shock Gibson, the Human Dynamo. In spite of using his surname in his code-name, nobody can figure out who he is under the mask.

The Black Phantom was a train robber who worked with a minion named Beast who wielded a bullwhip. She had a twin sister named Jicilla who was a dancer and singer at a saloon as well as a sweetheart to Tim Holt's friend Chito. However when Chito arrives to pick Jicilla up for their date he instead sees her twin Helena in her Black Phantom costume. The Black Phantom orders her men to kill him by dumping him down the well, but Tim Holt sees them carry his friend off and saves him as the Red Mask. While she started her career as an adversary of the western hero Red Mask, she eventually became Red Mask's crime fighting partner.

Alani, also known as South Sea Girl, was the ruler and protector of a chain of volcanic tropical islands in the South Pacific called the Vanishing Isles. She teamed up with Captain Ted to prevent oil tycoons from taking over her islands. She has no powers, but is strong enough to swim through a typhoon, can kill a shark easily, and is a knowledgeable mariner.

Don Wright was a publisher of Daily Bulletin, a newspaper based in either Central City or New York City (different issues give different locations). He put on a costume to help the downtrodden and oppressed. When World War II broke out, he focused on fighting the Axis saboteurs. Captain Freedom originally displayed super-strength and limited flight, but those powers vanished shortly after his original appearance and he remained non-powered for the remainder of his appearances.