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Character(s): Hydroman and Rainbow Boy
Publication: Heroic Comics No. 25
Publication Date: July 1944
Publisher: The Eastern Color Printing Co.
 Hydroman was actually Bob Blake.
He has the power to
travel through water and can also control water. It's hard to explain, but he essentially
travels in water like the Atom travels over phone lines.
Rainbow Boy was actually Jack Walton,
a member of a group of "Whiz Kids" who worked at a radio station.
Rainbow Boy fights crime and espionage by
creating and controlling rainbows.
Before it switched to all war stories with issue no. 32,
Heroic Comics featured several classic Golden Age masked heroes. Don't let the
war covers fool you, there are mysterymen strips in issues 1-31. Hydroman appeared in
issues 1-29. Rainbow Boy's solo strip appeared in issues 14-20 of Heroic Comics.
Click
here to read the story!
Information for this column was found in Howard Keltner's Index to Golden Age
Comic Books. There is a new edition of this great book now available. Email Bob Klein for details on how to purchase a copy!
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