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1938

Number of characters in this sub-list: 83 (out of a total of 36,945 in the database).  Records 1 through 50 displayed below.

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Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Gomez Addams Gomez Addams lead character comic strip character clergy/religious leader
CBR Scale: S Zen yogi
Addams Family (leader) Gold Key 167
Morticia Addams supporting character comic strip character
CBR Scale: S occult
Addams Family Gold Key 169
The Arrow The Arrow (Ralph Payne) hero
  Protectors; Superpowers Centaur Publications 17
Senator Barrows Senator Barrows villain
CBR Scale: U Christian (denomination
unknown) - nominal
[1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #1 (June 1938)] DC 1
Black X Black X (Richard Spencer) hero
  [first super-spy in comics] Quality 51
Thornton Blakely villain
CBR Scale: S repentant
[1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #3 (Aug. 1938)] DC 1
Humphrey Bogart Humphrey Bogart real/historical person
CBR Scale: I Episcopalian
[1st app: Swingtime in the Movies (1938)] Vitaphone Corporation 156
Tommy Burke supporting character
CBR Scale: S compulsive gambler
[1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #4 (Sep. 1938)] DC 21
Burns supporting character
 indeterminate  Cordell University football team; Cordell University
[one of his team's 3 best players]
DC 1
Bea Carroll Bea Carroll villain
CBR Scale: M manifestly non-religious
[first-ever Superman villain] DC 2
Lemmy Caution Lemmy Caution hero
  FBI Coward-McCann 41
City Hospital supporting character group
  [1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #5 (Oct. 1938)] DC 1
Cordell University supporting character group based on a real person
  [based on Cornell University] DC 1
Cordell University football team supporting character group
  Cordell University DC 1
Lola Cortez villain
 indeterminate  [1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #2 (July 1938)] DC 1
Crax supporting character
CBR Scale: I N.A.
dog
[circus watchdog-pet]
DC 1
Crimson Avenger Crimson Avenger (Lee Travis) hero
  All-Star Squadron; Seven Soldiers of Victory DC 127
Curly supporting character
 indeterminate  [Clark Kent's obnoxious co-worker] DC 1
Evelyn Curry Evelyn Curry supporting character
CBR Scale: S Christian (denomination
unknown)
[first character ever saved by Superman] DC 1
Dale University supporting character group based on a real person
  [based on Yale University] DC 1
Wallace Dodd supporting character
 indeterminate  [tennis champion] DC 1
The Egyptian Wizard (Amen-Hotep) villain
CBR Scale: M Egyptian classical religion
[1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #5 (Oct. 1938)] DC 2
George supporting character
 indeterminate  [1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #3 (Aug. 1938)] DC 1
Alex Greer Alex Greer villain
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious
[slickest lobbyist in Washington] DC 2
Jordan supporting character
 indeterminate  [1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #7 (Dec. 1938)] DC 1
Stanislaw Kober supporting character
CBR Scale: U Catholic
[1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #3 (Aug. 1938)] DC 1
Kryptonians supporting character group
CBR Scale: S Kryptonian religion
[1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #1 (June 1938)] DC 283
Hedy Lamarr Hedy Lamarr supporting character real/historical person
CBR Scale: S Jewish Catholic
[1st app: Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)] MGM 74
Lois Lane Lois Lane supporting character
CBR Scale: I Catholic
Raleigh College
[Superman's girlfriend, then wife]
DC 3,859
Leo villain
CBR Scale: I N.A.
lion
[circus lion]
DC 1
Lewiston supporting character
 indeterminate  Cordell University football team; Cordell University
[one of his team's 3 best players]
DC 1
Lurch supporting character comic strip character
  Addams Family Gold Key 167
Mrs. Mahoney supporting character
 indeterminate  [mother of septuplets in Lois Lane's lie] DC 1
Ray Martin supporting character
 indeterminate  Cordell University football team; Cordell University DC 1
Mary supporting character
 indeterminate  [Tommy Burke's girlfriend] DC 1
Butch Matson Butch Matson villain
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious
[first-ever named Superman villain] DC 1
Elsa Maxwell Elsa Maxwell real/historical person
CBR Scale: I LGBT
[1st app: Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)] DC 21
Mike supporting character
 indeterminate  [1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #4 (Sep. 1938)] DC 1
Mister America Mister America (Tex Thompson) hero
  All-Star Squadron; Hero Hotline DC 76
nighclubs nighclubs group real/historical person
  [1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #1 (June 1938)] DC
Derek Niles villain
 indeterminate  [1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #7 (Dec. 1938)] DC 1
Emil Norvell villain
CBR Scale: S repentant
[1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #2 (July 1938)] DC 4
Archie O'Toole Archie O'Toole lead character
  [1st app: Feature Funnies #10 (July 1938)] Quality 47
Jimmy Olsen Jimmy Olsen supporting character hero
CBR Scale: I Lutheran
The Legion of Super-Heroes
[Superman's pal]
DC 1,896
Tyrone Power Tyrone Power real/historical person
CBR Scale: I Catholic
[1st app: Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 9 (1938)] Columbia Pictures 49
The Pseudo-Superman villain
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious
[1st app: Action Comics (vol. 1) #6 (Nov. 1938)] DC 1
Coach Randall villain
 indeterminate  [corrupt college football coach] DC 1
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle Sheena, Queen of the Jungle hero
  [1st app: Wags #46 (14 Jan. 1938)] Fiction House; Wags 262
Oliver Stanley supporting character
 indeterminate  Cordell University football team; Cordell University DC 1
Stevens supporting character
 indeterminate  Cordell University football team
[one of his team's 3 best players]
DC 1

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