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- | * Jim Blake creates a winged flying costume and becomes the mystery man known as **[[Lynx (Jim Blake)|the Moth]]**. [Mystery Men Comics #9] | + | * The wealthy |
* Grant Farrel is given super-powers by the god Thor and begins adventures as the mystery man called **[[Thor (Grant Farrel)|Thor]]**. [Weird Comics #1] | * Grant Farrel is given super-powers by the god Thor and begins adventures as the mystery man called **[[Thor (Grant Farrel)|Thor]]**. [Weird Comics #1] | ||
* [[Sorceress of Zoom|The Sorceress of Zoom]], sometimes a villainess, sometimes a heroine, begins adventures in Zoom, a traveling city in the clouds. //Note: The city of Zoom is probably originally from a magical dimension, such as the Land of the Nightshades.// | * [[Sorceress of Zoom|The Sorceress of Zoom]], sometimes a villainess, sometimes a heroine, begins adventures in Zoom, a traveling city in the clouds. //Note: The city of Zoom is probably originally from a magical dimension, such as the Land of the Nightshades.// | ||
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* Michael Shelby and his father, Senator Dan Shelby, are gunned down by agents of the Grim Circle; the senator dies, but his son barely clings to life. Prof. Martin Lascomb uses his experimental vita-ray machine to revive the injured Michael, but an accident causes him to be struck by thousands of volts of electricity at the same time, granting him the super-powers of strength, vitality, and limited flight. After meeting Walter Green, who retires as the original **Green Mask**, Shelby becomes **[[Green Mask (Michael Shelby)|the Green Mask II]]**. An orphaned boy named Don Mason is injured and also healed by vita-rays, which grant him vitality but doesn' | * Michael Shelby and his father, Senator Dan Shelby, are gunned down by agents of the Grim Circle; the senator dies, but his son barely clings to life. Prof. Martin Lascomb uses his experimental vita-ray machine to revive the injured Michael, but an accident causes him to be struck by thousands of volts of electricity at the same time, granting him the super-powers of strength, vitality, and limited flight. After meeting Walter Green, who retires as the original **Green Mask**, Shelby becomes **[[Green Mask (Michael Shelby)|the Green Mask II]]**. An orphaned boy named Don Mason is injured and also healed by vita-rays, which grant him vitality but doesn' | ||
* The Blue Beetle begins using Vitamin 2X, created by Dr. Abe Franz, which originally grants the Blue Beetle super-energy but later enables him to gain full-fledged super-powers. [Mystery Men Comics #13] | * The Blue Beetle begins using Vitamin 2X, created by Dr. Abe Franz, which originally grants the Blue Beetle super-energy but later enables him to gain full-fledged super-powers. [Mystery Men Comics #13] | ||
- | * The Moth gains limited super-powers and changes his name to **the Lynx**. He adopts an orphaned boy named Phil, who becomes **[[Blackie the Mystery Boy]]**, the Lynx's teenaged crime-fighting partner. [Mystery Men Comics #13] | + | * Jim Blake changes his costumed |
* The Eagle loses his wings and gains flight power through his cape. [Science Comics #7] | * The Eagle loses his wings and gains flight power through his cape. [Science Comics #7] | ||
* Caius Martius, an ancient Roman, awakens from a 2,200-year sleep and becomes the mystery man known as **[[Dart (Caius Martius)|the Dart]]**, taking the name Caius Martius Wheeler in his everyday identity as high school history teacher. Andy Barlow becomes **[[Ace the Amazing Boy]]**, the Dart's teenaged crime-fighting partner, nicknamed the Amazing Boy. [Weird Comics #5] | * Caius Martius, an ancient Roman, awakens from a 2,200-year sleep and becomes the mystery man known as **[[Dart (Caius Martius)|the Dart]]**, taking the name Caius Martius Wheeler in his everyday identity as high school history teacher. Andy Barlow becomes **[[Ace the Amazing Boy]]**, the Dart's teenaged crime-fighting partner, nicknamed the Amazing Boy. [Weird Comics #5] | ||
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* After Nature Girl dies of illness, Nature Boy rebels against the Masters of the Elements who granted them powers. They retaliate by taking away his memories, and David Crandall wanders the world as an amnesiac who doesn' | * After Nature Girl dies of illness, Nature Boy rebels against the Masters of the Elements who granted them powers. They retaliate by taking away his memories, and David Crandall wanders the world as an amnesiac who doesn' | ||
+ | * In Los Angeles, Assistant District Attorney Larry Davis (formerly the Cub, kid sidekick to the original Black Lion, George Davis) becomes the **[[Black Lion (Larry Davis)|Black Lion II]]** and takes on the Mafia single-handedly as a vigilante. Sometime later he goes missing, and he is rumored to have been killed by the Mafia, with his body buried under Dodger Stadium (which began construction in September, 1959, and was officially opened in 1962). [" | ||
=== February, 1959 === | === February, 1959 === |