The OTHER Super guys

Sure we have Superman, Batman, Dr Who, The Phantom and Judge Dredd..BUT... there are other super guys that I like, maybe not as much, but if i didnt like em would I be blogging about 'em ?, most of these were on Saturday morning cartoons and or comics with the occasional tv series chucked in for good measure...and here they be

 First saw Hornet in comics THEN he showed up on Adam Wests Batman series...the Green Hornet is the alter ego of Britt Reid, wealthy young publisher of the Daily Sentinel newspaper by day, who goes out in his masked "Green Hornet" identity at night to fight crime as a vigilante. Reid is accompanied by his loyal and similarly masked partner and confidant, Kato, who drives their technologically advanced car, the "Black Beauty". As the Green Hornet, Reid masquerades as a criminal to infiltrate the underworld, leaving behind criminals and any incriminating evidence found for the police.

The Lone Ranger is so named because the character is the last survivor of a group of Texas Rangers, rather than because he works alone (he is usually accompanied by Tonto).
While details differ, the basic story of the origin of the Lone Ranger is the same in most versions of the franchise.A posse of six members of the Texas Ranger Division pursuing a band of outlaws led by Bartholomew "Butch" Cavendish is betrayed by a civilian guide named Collins and ambushed in a canyon named Bryant's Gap. Later, an Indian named Tonto stumbles onto the scene and discovers one ranger is still alive, though barely. (In some versions, Tonto recognizes the lone survivor as the man who saved his life when they were children; according to the television series, when Tonto left the Reid place with a horse given him by the boy Reid, he gave Reid a ring and the name Kemo Sabe, which he said means "trusty scout") . John Reid fashions a black domino mask, using material from his brother's vest to conceal his identity. To aid in the deception, Tonto digs a sixth grave and places at its head a cross with John's name so that Cavendish and his gang would believe that all of the Rangers had been killed.....In many versions Reid continues fighting for justice as The Lone Ranger even after the Cavendish gang is captured.

One of my favourites from the B team...While working on a dig in Caramanga, South America, Adam was transported to the planet of Rann via the Zeta-Beam. He immediately befriended the Rannians and took up a flight pack and raygun to assist them. While there, he also fell in love with a Rannian woman named Alanna. As the Zeta Beam's teleportation effect wore off, Adam was returned to Earth. However, he was able to return to Rann by following a schedule of where the Zeta beam would next hit. He scheduled his archeological trips to coincide with the location and time. He also married Alanna. It was initially believed that the Zeta Beam was used simply as a friendly communication between Rann and Earth. However, it was later hinted that Rann was searching for suitable mates from other planets as more and more of the Rannians were found to be sterile. Adam met the JLA after helping them battle Kanjar-Ro, but declined their membership offer. .

The trio consisted of Vapor Man (who could turn his body into various types of gas and back again), Meteor Man (who could make all or part of his body grow or shrink, and had super-strength when they grew) and Gravity Girl (who could make things, including opponents, heavier). They wore costumes with Roman numerals I, II and III, respectively, on the chest to signify they were a team. But all three were also members of The Galactic Patrol, which maintained the peace throughout the Galaxy. They got around in a space ship called Condor 1....None of the three had "civilian" names, and their background data consisted mostly of the fact that their home planets' names were Vaporus, Meteorus and Gravitas. It isn't too hard to figure out which came from where. Gravity Girl was a princess where she came from. No explanation of their super powers was given — it was simply assumed everyone from their respective planets had them.

Mightor was a typical, average superhero, complete with mask, cape, girlfriend who wondered who he really was … the works. The only thing that set him apart from the crowd was the fact that he was a cave man. Or cave boy. . For added youth appeal, in his secret identity, Tor (apparently, this took place before they invented last names), Mightor was a teenager.

It all started when Tor and his pet dinosaur, Tog rescued an old man from a Tyrannosaurus rex. For this, Tor was rewarded with the old man's magic club, which, when properly activated, transformed him into The Mighty Mightor like Billy Batson's magic word transformed him into Captain Marvel. As Mightor, he had super-strength and the power of flight, and his club could emit force rays, de-necessitating its use for messy, parent-unfriendly bashing. What's more, it turned Tog into a flying, fire-breathing dragon.

Space Ghost has his secret headquarters on the hidden Ghost Planet, his Ghost cave.  The Ghost Planet is full of his crime-fighting gear, but it is also where he lives.  In the original cartoons, Space Ghost was never given a secret identity.  While he was given one in later incarnations, I would like to disregard it and go back to the drawing board with a new one.  He lives here on the hidden Ghost Planet with Jan, Jace, and Blip. ...and some absolutely AWESOME wristbands

Is Mick a Super Hero?...well, his got powers and he solves crime..SO...YEAH....Prior to becoming a vampire, he was a band member at a party, Mick was met by Coraline Duvall; they instantly fell in love with with each other. In 1952, Mick was turned into a vampire by his wife, Coraline, on his wedding night at the age of thirty. Since he was turned into a vampire, he no longer ages and as such, is presumably immortal. For 33 years he was married to Coraline, but an unknown cause resulted in them being separated.

In 1985, he saved the life of a young girl, named Beth Turner, from Coraline when she kidnapped Beth to start a family. When Mick went to save Beth, he killed his vampire wife Coraline (but failed. this is found out later in the series). After rescuing Beth, he became really close to her and followed her. Mick was working as a Private Investigator when they properly met. Beth was older, when they were both at a crime scene. Beth was doing a news report for Buzzwire, where she works. He obviously knew who she was, but she had forgotten who he was

 he is a civilian test pilot who was the only civilian to walk on the Moon. In the regular series, however, Austin once again became a military man, holding the rank of colonel in the Air Force. In the episode "Pilot Error" Austin is shown to be wearing both the Vietnam Service Medal and the Vietnam Campaign Medal on his dress uniform, implying that he is a Vietnam veteran.
In both versions of his origin, Austin is testing an experimental lifting body aircraft when a malfunction causes a crash. Austin's injuries are severe: both legs and one arm are lost, and he is also blinded in one eye and his skull is pulverized (the TV version does not suffer the skull injury. Their solution is to take the severely injured man, rebuild him with bionics, and create a cyborg—part man, part machine. Austin expresses a desire to commit suicide after learning about the loss of his limbs.
The operation to rebuild him costs $6 million. Bionics are used to replace Austin's arm (his left in Caidin's original story; his right in the TV version) and both legs. Austin's eye is also replaced. Caidin and the TV series treat this differently; Caidin's Austin receives a sophisticated miniature camera (activated by pressing a hidden shutter implanted under Austin's skin after which the eye has to be removed before development of the film) but otherwise remains blinded in that eye, while the television version not only restores sight but also has extreme telescopic magnification and infrared capabilities. His legs and arm provide Austin with superhuman speed, strength and endurance (the latter because, Caidin writes, Austin's heart and lungs only need to power his torso, head and remaining arm). Caidin's character also had some additional bionic parts his TV counterpart lacked, such as a steel-reinforced skull, a poison dart gun built into one of his bionic fingers, and a radio transmitter built into a rib.

Birdman  had a secret identity (Ray Randall), but, to my knowledge never used it. Mostly, he hung around The Bird Lair, located in an extinct volcano, and waited for a call from Falcon-7 (no relation), his pipe-smoking, patch-eyed contact in Inter-Nation Security. When the call came, he and Avenger (no relation), his pet eagle, would sally forth and, in the space of about six and a half minutes, do what needed to be done. Usually, this involved putting down a villain associated with an international bad guy organization called F.E.A.R., the full name of which was never mentioned. He was occasionally assisted by sidekick named Birdboy, but mostly did it alone. Even Avenger usually sat on the sidelines, unless Birdman needed to be rescued.

Birdman's super powers came from Ra, the Egyptian sun god; and therefore he could be de-powered by keeping him away from sunlight. When charged, he had the usual super strength and power of flight, plus the ability to shoot solar beams from his hands and create solar shields to ward off his enemies' energy blasts. Another thing warded off by this power was protest from parent groups, which were starting to object to all the hitting that went on in shows of this type. When they gave a hero a super power that didn't involve hitting, critics didn't fuss too much, figuring the kids weren't likely to imitate their heroes by bombarding one another with deadly radiation.

The humans constituted a royal family. Zandor, the leader of the group, was, like The Black Panther and Super President, a head of state (in his case king of the land of Amzot on the planet Quasar) who somehow found time for hazardous adventures. His weapons included a shield which, like Captain America's, would return to him when thrown at a villain, and a slingshot for pelting bad guys with energy rocks. His queen (Tarra) and young prince (Dorno) also wielded slingshots and energy rocks. Despite their high social and political standing, all three wore skimpy outfits that made them look like primitive warriors.

The dragon's name was Zok. He could shoot energy blasts from his eyes and tail. The "rock ape" was Igoo. He had the basic powers of super strength and invulnerability. Tundro resembled a triceratops except for having ten legs, and could shoot energy rocks from his four horns. Gloop and Gleep, the blobs of protoplasm, could assume any shape that might be useful. Exactly how they all got together was never mentioned.

The Kid was actually Harvard-educated lawyer Matthew Hawk, whose arrival in 1870s Tombstone (not the famous Tombstone; this one's in Texas) kicked off the series. The first story also introduced schoolmarm Nancy Carter, who quickly got a "thing" going with Matt, and Nancy's brother, tough guy Clem Carter. Clem and Matt clashed early on, and the latter, a puny Eastern dude, came off the worse. But that didn't stop him from intervening later, when Clem and his gang started picking on an old man named Ben Dancer.

Ben, a former "name" gunfighter, chased them off by drawing his gun, but was still grateful enough to teach Matt all the skills he'd had in his youth. Matt didn't go public about his new-found prowess, but instead made himself a fancy costume, complete with mask, took on the name of an old dime novel character — The Two-Gun Kid — and set out to use his abilities to right wrongs and suchlike. Only his pal, Boom-Boom Brown, who wore a ten-gallon hat (and you knew there had to be one of those in the story), knew Two-Gun and Matt were one and the same. (Previous Marvel western heroes with secret identities included The Black Rider and The Apache Kid.)

Captain ATOM was an officer in the pre-Vietnam U.S. Air Force, stationed at Cape Canaveral, when he had one of those comic book accidents that would disintegrate an actual human, and — surprise — was disintegrated. Where he departed from reality was in being able to pull himself back together; and when he did, he found he had wonderful and very useful super powers. Thereafter, he served his country both as a military man during the height of the Cold War — and as Captain Atom.

As the story had it, Satan decided one day he needed some human spawn, so, taking the name Hellstrom, he married a woman named Victoria Wingate. They had two children, and she never suspected a thing, not even when Daimon was born with a huge pentagram on his chest as a birthmark. Not even when he named the younger one Satana. When she did find out, she promptly went insane, and spent years in a mental institution (during which the children were raised separately) before finally succumbing to the horror of it all. After her demise, Daimon found her diary lying around the house, which is how he learned of his family background. (Satana already knew.) Conveniently, there was an interdimensional portal in the basement, so he could have an immediate confrontation with Dad, who tried to get him to serve the cause of Evil. Like Li'l Bad Wolf, tho, Daimon wasn't having any of it, so he and Satan became enemies.

Mild-mannered Hiram Fly lived in a cozy little matchbox under a picket fence. He had a girlfriend named Flora Fly and a best pal named Horsey. The three liked to hang out at a trendy eatery called The Sugar Bowl. They were perfectly ordinary flies, except … when Hiram put on his special helmet, with the super-specs, "millions of megatons of energy" (as the narrator informed us) would course through "the sensitive muscles of his head", making him so strong, "no fly swatter can harm him, no fly paper can hold him, no insecticide can stop him". As Fearless Fly, Hiram would battle diabolic villains such as Ferocious Fly and the insidious Dr. Goo Fee with his henchman, Gung Ho.

the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents were mostly superheroes. Dynamo was the brawny guy of the group — he had a high-tech belt that could make him invulnerable and super-strong. NoMan was a spook type, similar in appearance to a DC character, The Spectre, and with spook-like super powers as well — but again, with high-tech rather than mystical sources for his abilities. Lightning was a knock-off of The Flash, and Raven (no relation) one of Hawkman. Menthor, who had mental powers (again, from a high-tech source), was a double agent, secretly working for T.H.U.N.D.E.R.'s arch-enemy, The Warlord. He got his comeuppance (i.e., was killed off) in the seventh issue, and was later replaced with a new Menthor. Rounding out the cast were a commando team called The Thunder Squad.

A peer of the realm as Lord Falsworth, James Montgomery Falsworth is first active as the adventurer and British government operative Union Jack during World War I. During his adventures as a member of Freedom's Five, he encounters the mysterious Baron Blood, a vampire saboteur for the Germans. After the war, Lord Falsworth retires to his ancestral home in England to raise a family.....He is active again as Union Jack during World War II. He becomes a member of the Invaders after the original Human Torch saves his daughter — Jacqueline Falsworth — from Baron Blood. Jacqueline is revived by a blood transfusion from the Human Torch which grants her the power of super-speed. As a result, she becomes the costumed hero Spitfire (a title she still holds in the 21st Century). After the attack, Lord Falsworth offers up his mansion as the Invaders' base of operations. 

Although unable to use his legs, James later travels with Spitfire and Dyna-Mite, parachuting into Nazi Germany. There they meet up with James' son, Brian, whom they were searching for. Falsworth and Dyna-Mite were captured by the Nazis, but are then rescued by Brian. Originally thinking his son a traitor, James learns that Brian fights against the Nazis as the costumed hero, the Destroyer. As a result, the two reconcile their differences and James passes the mantle of Union Jack on to Brian, at which point Brian abandons his Destroyer identity.

Blade (born Eric Brooks) was born in a whorehouse in the Soho neighbourhood of London, England in 1929. Eric's mother, Tara Brooks, was a prostitute at Madame Vanity's Brothel. When Tara experienced severe labor complications, a doctor was summoned who was in actuality Deacon Frost, a vampire who feasted on her during Eric's birth and killed her. However, this inadvertently passed along certain enzymes in his own blood to the infant. This resulted in Eric's quasi-vampiric abilities, including a greatly prolonged lifespan and the ability to sense supernatural creatures, as well as an immunity to complete vampirism. 
Eric grew up living at Madame Vanity's, and at age nine, returning home from school 

 Eric helped the old man, who used a silver cane to kill the vampires and fight off the attackers. The man was Jamal Afari, a jazz trumpeter and vampire hunter who then moved into Madame Vanity's and trained the young Eric in both music and combat. Blade was soon able to defeat many of the weak, younger vampires that he and Afari found in abundance.

Eric became an Olympic-level athlete and a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with an expertise in edged weapons such as knives and daggers so notable that it earned him the nickname "Blade" among both his fellow hunters and the vampires they opposed, who began to fear the young hunter.
Blade was made into 3 feature films starring Wesley Snipes as the Vampire Hunter, with a tweak on the origin tale

Yeah, Yeah, I know there is some JSA members in here BUT most aint...hence there placement herein....ANYWAY....On the day of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt gathered available superheroes—including members of the Justice Society of America, Freedom Fighters, Seven Soldiers of Victory, and solo heroes—at the White House. He asked them to band together for the war as the All-Star Squadron to battle sabotage and keep the peace on the home front during World War II. The rationale for not using the Squadron in combat situations in the European or Pacific Theaters of War was that Adolf Hitler had possession of the Spear of Destiny, a mystical object that gave him control of any superheroes with magic-based powers or a vulnerability to magic (including Superman, Green Lantern, Doctor Fate, and others) who crossed into territory held by the Axis Powers.
At the time, many of the Justice Society members had been captured by the time-travelling villain Per Degaton with the help of JSA foes he had pulled back in time, but the available heroes were asked to first guard against a potential attack on the American West Coast. Degaton himself used some stolen Japanese planes with hypnotized troopers to launch such an attack on San Francisco, hoping to change history by making the USA fight to a stalemate against Japan, enabling him to take over the world, so the new Squadron's first major mission was to stop the attack and rescue the captured heroes, who also became part of the new group. However due to Per Degaton going back in time after the JSA were freed they forgot his involvement, though the events were not wiped. America's entry into the war caused several of the members of the JSA to enlist, or be drafted in their civilian identities. These included Starman, Hawkman, The Atom, and Johnny Thunder.

And now a Hero that I thought should of cracked the big leagues...Deadman's adventures began when he was murdered, In earlier years,....The story, concerned a circus aerialist, Boston Brand, who used the name "Deadman" as part of his act. As Deadman, he wore white makeup and red circus tights — which, since circus tights had been part of the superhero style ever since Superman was introduced wearing an outfit based on them, fit right in with prevailing trends in comic books. One day, while performing his act, he was shot by a sniper in the audience and fell to earth, dead....But a supernatural entity called Rama Kushna took interest in his plight, and kept his spirit alive so he could find and punish his killer. What's more, tho invisible, intangible and inaudible in spirit form (to the other characters, at least — readers saw him looking like he had when he died), he gained the ability to act in the material world by "possessing" human bodies (whose owners were left with no memories of the possession after he released them). 


SO..there you go..a few of my B team favourites....seeya next time