List of Quality Comics characters

[1] Daniel Dyce was a District Attorney who was almost an exact twin of his friend, Jacob Horn.

The hero Destiny sees this take place, and starts his crime fighting career when 711 died, replacing his feature in Police Comics.

[5] He wore a green cape, a brown business suit, and a wide-brimmed fedora which cast his eyes in shadow.

Brenner replaced 711 with a new hero — a mysterious figure who discovers that he has the powers of clairvoyance and teleportation, and uses them to bring 711's murderer to justice.

She is a tough criminal defense attorney in 1940's New York who relied on unconventional (and dubiously legal) methods.

Elizabeth Bates appears in the Creature Commandos episode "Chasing Squirrels", voiced by Linda Cardellini.

[10] In the first five issues of Smash Comics, the character was called Black Ace, then he reverted to the original name.

According to Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes, his enemies include "the foreign spy Baron Basil, the Death Squadron and their Suicide Torpedoes, Proxoss the Revolutionary, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Legion of Living Bombs, and the femme fatale Madame Doom.

"[12] In 1939, Black X tangled with the seductive spy Madame Doom, and over the course of several stories, he fell in love with her, wondering if he could betray his country to be with the agent of an enemy nation.

Discovering that she's building an army of exploding human bombs in a 1940 story, Black X renounced his affection, and Madame Doom apparently died in an explosion—although she continued to return periodically through 1943.

Captain Bill Dunn and Boomerang Jones, crew of The Blue Tracer, first appeared in Military Comics #1 (August 1941).

William "Wild Bill" Dunn is an American engineer working with the army in a secluded section of Ethiopia.

Dunn is rescued by "Boomerang" Jones, an Australian soldier who had been given up for dead and is now fighting his own private war against the Nazis.

[16] After Dunn regains his strength, the two men create a super-vehicle out of captured Nazi equipment that they name The Blue Tracer.

[17] The two travel the world and fight the Axis forces during the rest of the war, with Dunn at the head and Jones as his sidekick.

According to Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes, the Blue Tracer's foes "range from Nazis to the Yellow Butcher of Koko Nor to Dr. Schwein, who has created a regeneration formula for German soldiers.

Creator Fred Guardineer drew a detailed half-page diagram of the vehicle in the fourth issue.

The vehicle is portrayed as the Freedom Fighters mobile base and is piloted by a man named Cache.

Clip Chance, student athlete at Cliffside College, first appeared in Feature Funnies #7 (April 1938).

Pawnee (Destroyer 171), and Executive Officer Fred Conroy first appeared in National Comics #23 (June 1942).

[24] In his fourth story, Magno was joined by a sidekick—Davey, a young man with the powers of magnetic attraction and repulsion.

[27] According to Jess Nevins' Encyclopedia of Golden Age Superheroes, "Magno and Davey take on a variety of foes: human-sacrificing Aztec cultists, the four-armed, fanged Yellow Peril Professor Octopus, and Magno and Davey's recurring foe, the Clown, who works out of a traveling cricus and uses hyper-intelligent trained rats to carry out his crimes".

In this story, Magno is contacted by Uncle Sam hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor to join the Freedom Fighters and defend the base.

Also having the power of electrokinesis, Magno was under mind control from Director Robbins' and was a member of his Crusaders team.

After Red Bee evolved into an alien bug hybrid, she killed Director Robbins which allowed the Crusaders to be free from his mind control.

Marmaduke was a talking animal character created by Ernie Hart in 1944 and was Quality Comics' third longest-running title behind Blackhawk and Plastic Man.

[30] According to the Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels, the series "was, in the beginning, were solidly drawn and reasonably funny, but lacked a convincing sense of action and character.

The Orchid first appeared in Detective Picture Stories #2 (January 1937) published by the Comics Magazine Company.

Tiger Shark and Captain Seth Perkins, crew of The Phantom Clipper, first appeared in Military Comics #9 (April 1942).

Ensign Jack Smith, who piloted an electric battery driven one-man submarine named The Swordfish for the U.S. Navy, first appeared in Hit Comics #22 (June 1942).