Spark Man (1945) comic books

Stories and art by Reg Greenwood and Fred Methot. United Features collects the early adventures of electric-powered superhero Spark Man. Spark Man is a Golden Age superhero with a difference: his secret identity is also secret from the reader, who gets a list of the three men who might be Spark Man. United Features was better known as a comic-strip syndicate; Spark Man was a rare United character original to comic books. When Val Hall's fancy costume party is robbed by a Spark Man impostor, the real Spark Man shows up to stop him, causing identity confusion. Sinister fifth columnist Dr. Dryden kidnaps Miss Mason to his cemetery hideout, and Spark Man follows. Reporter Quill Davis investigates the strange new disease that comes from eating drugged food... but is Davis also the superhero Spark Man? Spark Man investigates a series of murders where the victims are lured to a window by a strange song, then stabbed with a knife embossed with a gold crow. Flash! The Spark Man Pays Our Editor a Visit!; Who is The Spark Man? Can You Guess?; The Spark Man; Case of the Poisoned Fruit; Case of the Gold Crow. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.