Master Man is a fictional character created during the 1930s to 1940s period referred to as the

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. A

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, the character's exact creator is uncertain: his first story, in

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' '' Master Comics'' #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 (later

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), the publishers of the ''

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

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. Fawcett would discontinue its comic publishing in 1953. 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

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villain, a

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called Master Man in the 1970s comic-book series '' The Invaders'', the Master Man from

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who antagonized Kid Eternity, or the Nazi superhuman in the '' 2000 AD'' stories about

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at An International Catalogue of Superheroes
''Master Comics'' #1
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