Concept » Platinum Age of Comics appears in 189 issues.
The first comic strip spy.
Alley Oop is a strong caveman that lived in the prehistoric kingdom of Moo, and that started to time-travel when he met dr. Wonmug from the 20th Century.
Golden age character who lad lots of aviation adventures. He helped the allies during World War II.
Created in 1919 by Billy DeBeck. Fond of gambling, horse racing and always looking for an easy way up the social ladder, Barney and his race horse Spark Plug enjoyed a run of wild, exuberant adventures in the newspapers of the 1920s and 1930s.
Betty Boop is a 30s' cartoon character and the first animated sex symbol.
Arch-nemesis of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy.
Blondie Bumstead is Dagwood's wife and star of the comic named after her. She has two children Alexander and Cookie.
Bluto is a cartoon and comics character as well as Popeye`s nemesis who is in love, like Popeye, with Olive Oyl and kidnaps her daily.
Bobby Thatcher was the titular protagonist of a comic strip from 1927 to 1937. Notable for being among the earliest "serious" protagonists of such series. A 15-year-old orphan, Bobby searches the world for his sister Hattie.
Brick Bradford was a Space Adventurer who had many encountered dinosaurs, intergalactic villains, robots and subatomic worlds .
The first comic space-man flies on!
Created in 1902 by Richard F. Outcault. Later became the mascot of a children's shoe brand of the same name.
American Swashbuckler
Olive Oyl's brother.
George Webster Confucius, "Connie" to his friends
He is a very rich man who adopts Annie.
Dick Tracy was the greatest detective of his time fighting mob bosses. His name was feared in the criminal underworld.
Golden Age comic strip character.
There was a lot of whistling AT this Dixie
One of the oldest characters to appear in DC Comics still being published. Doctor Occult, AKA The Ghost Detective, was a magic user and paranormal investigator who, for a period, had his soul bonded to his partner's, Rose Psychic. He was murdered by the sorcerer Nick Necro.
Star of Newspaper strips, comics, film and radio.
Cinderella for the Early 20th Century
Felix the Cat has a magical bag of tricks from which he can pull out anything he needs at the moment; the bag can also shapeshift into anything Felix needs at the time.
Flash Gordon is a sci-fi hero from 1930's. An exceptional athlete and courageous man, Flash was dubbed "King Of the Impossible" due to many fantastic adventures and accomplishments including thwarting an invasion from the planet Mongo orchestrated by his arch nemesis Ming the Merciless. Flash Gordon was originally owned and published by King Features Syndicate and has since been licensed by several other companies for movies and comics.
Foxy Grandpa is a comic strip character which debuted in 1900 in the USA, and appeared in various Platinum Age comic books featuring reprints and original stories. Foxy Grandpa was depicted often foiling the best plots of his grandsons, Chub and Bunt, who tried tricking him with nefarious schemes but he outwitted them easily displaying wit, acrobatics, and humorous antics.
Up to no good for 113 years and counting.
Early flapper and fashionista that ran her own strip series in the golden age.
Fu Manchu is one of the most popular villains of his time. He was created and introduced in the 1913 novel The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer.
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