NOTES: JANUARY 2023

Names:

Bulldog Teeters. (Feature Comics 044, 1941)

Zero the Ghost Detective getting straight-up punched by a ghost. (Feature Comics 051, 1941)

Dates: Johnny Thunder born 7th July, 1917 (Flash Comics v1 001, 1940)

Calling Cards:

He only ever used 'em a couple of times but the Flash had metal lightning bolt dart calling cards.

Costumes:

Absolutely the best Hawkman costume variant is the brief period in which he wore a big hat in the shape of a sassy hawk's head (Flash Comics v1 003, 1940)

MINOR SUPER-HERO 026: ZERO, GHOST DETECTIVE

(Feature Comics 032-074, 1940-1943)

Eyyy, it's Zero the Ghost Detective!

I have a blanket love of the psychic detective genre and unusually for the Golden Age Zero's cases almost always end up being actually supernatural as opposed to being a crook in a sheet - the above panels are from a case wherein a bitter old man dies and comes back as a three-fingered ogre to drag the rest of his family into death with him. It's usually something gruesome and lots of people get killed by ghosts. What fun!

Zero himself is a bit of a cypher as his adventures never really dip into his private life but does that really matter? He should absolutely be brought back as a foil to Dr Thirteen. Oh how they would annoy one another!