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ARABIAN NIGHTS

THE FORTY THIEVES

REAL

Beaten up by a time-travelling Merlin the Magician (National Comics 004, 1940)

ARTHURIAN

KING ARTHUR

REAL

Well, his ghost anyway (Blue Bolt v1 007, 1940)

MERLIN

OTHERS

Super-heroic descendant Merlin the Magician (National Comics 001, 1940)

FAIRY TALE

THE SEVEN DWARFS

PARODIES

The Five Dopes: Block-Head, Lunk-Head, Stupid, Useless and Lame-Brain (Pep Comics 005, 1940)

FOLKLORIC

DAVY JONES

Ancestor to undersea adventurer Navy Jones (Science Comics 005, 1940) 

Piratical adventurer Captain Davy Jones Junior (Super Comics 027, 1940)

PAUL BUNYAN

As an adventure comic protagonist (National Comics 001, 1940) 

RIP VAN WINKLE

Moonshiner poses as him (Target Comics v1 003, 1940)

LITERARY

CAPTAIN NEMO

Becomes an ally of Navy Jones (Science Comics 005, 1940)

COUNT DRACULA 

OTHERS

Bulletman foe the Son of Count Dracula (Master Comics 020, 1941)

COUNT ZAROFF

ANALOGS

Baron Blood (Detective Eye 001, 1940)

Most Dangerous Game enthusiast Baron von Krasner (Blue Ribbon Comics 006, 1940)

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME

The supposed descendant of the original battles Black X in Paris (Smash Comics 012, 1940)

QUEEN TERA

ANALOGS

"Tera Bey, Mistress of Mysteries" leads lost explorers from a tomb (Jungle Comics 011, 1940) 

SHERLOCK HOLMES

ANALOGS

"Philpot Veep" and his assistant Waldo (Smash Comics 001, 1939) 

Fuller Spunk, actor-turned-detective, previously famous for portraying "Herlock Olmes" (Hyper Mystery Comics 002, 1940)

"Dinky Dinkerton" and his assistant Dr Philip Anbust, aka Sniffy (Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics 001, 1940)

ROBIN HOOD

MAID MARIAN

ANALOGS

I think that Lady Marion is supposed to be the same person? (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

ROBIN HOOD

OTHERS

Hobo adventurer Robinhood Jones (Champion Comics 007, 1940)

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