Master Man was a short-lived comic book

Comic book

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 superhero

Superhero

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 created during the 1930s to 1940s period historians and fans called the Golden Age of Comic Books

Golden Age of Comic Books

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. His exact creator is uncertain: His first story, in Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics, a division of Fawcett Publications, was one of several successful comic book publishers during the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s...

' Master Comics

Master Comics

Master Comics was a monthly ongoing comic book anthology series that began its 133-issue run during the 1930s and 1940s period known as the Golden Age of Comic Books...

#1 (March 1940), was drawn by Newt Alfred, but that issue's cover was drawn by Harry Fiske. The leader character in the anthology Master Comics, he was described as
Master Man could not fly but was super strong and could run at extreme speeds, faster than an automobile. The series lasted six issues, due to a lawsuit threat from National Comics

National Comics

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 (later DC Comics

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), the publishers of the Superman

Superman

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 series, which had been emboldened by a recent legal victory against a similar character called Wonder Man

Wonder Man (Fox Publications)

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.

Fawcett would discontinue most of its comic publishing in the mid 1950s. In the 1970s DC Comics licensed Fawcett's Captain Marvel character, and would eventually become the intellectual property owners of Fawcett's superhero characters.

This character has no connection to the Marvel Comics

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 villain, a Nazi

Nazism

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 called Master Man

Master Man (Marvel Comics)

Master Man is the name of three fictional characters that appear in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The original Master Man first appears in the title Giant-Size Invaders #1 and was created by Roy Thomas and Frank Robbins. The second version , first appears in Namor the Sub-Mariner #11 ...

 in the 1970s comic-book series The Invaders

The Invaders

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, or the Master Man from Quality Comics

Quality Comics

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, a Kid Eternity

Kid Eternity

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 antagonist.

External links

• Master Man at the Grand Comics Database
• Nevins, Jess
  Jess Nevins
  John J. Nevins, MA/MS, is an American author and librarian, born 30 July 1966 and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of the World Fantasy Award-nominated Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana , and other works on Victoriana and pulp fiction...
  
  . Master Man at The Golden Age Heroes Directory: M
• Master Man at An International Catalogue of Superheroes
• Master Comics #1 (download) at Golden Age Comics