(Daring Mystery Comics 007, 1941)
Lot to like about the Thunderer: great name, trend-based origin (ham radio enthusiast who finds crime on the airwaves/ rigs up a microphone to enhance his presence with a booming voice), nice-looking costume that was ultimately his downfall (because Marvel Comics 1000 established that virtually every Marvel character who wore a full-face black mask were wearing the same mask, and some of them retroactively had to have died for the chain of mask-wearers to continue). Lot to like.
Perhaps my favourite thing about him, however, is the fact that he turns down his amplifier in the 4th panel above, which heavily implies that he has been talking to himself at top volume while bounding over the rooftops. Just great stuff.
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