Fighting Yank

Real Name: Bruce Carter III

First Appearance: Startling Comics #10 (Better Publications); America's Best Comics 9, 11, 13-25; Fighting Yank 1-29

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History: During the Revolutionary War Bruce Carter distinguished himself as a war hero. Years later his descendent, Bruce Carter III, has a visitation from the ghost of this illustrious ancestor, who informs him that he must continue the family tradition of fighting for liberty. The ghost then tells him where he can locate a cloak which will grant him superhuman strength and invulnerability, aiding his fight against the Germans and criminals. Bruce the younger finds the cloak and creates the costumed identity of the Fighting Yank, often assisted by his girlfriend Joan and his ancestor.

Powers/Abilities: Superstrong and invulnerable

Comments: As Mike Murphy informs me, the Fighting Yank returned in Alan Moore's Tom Strong as one of the heroes of Terra Obscura. He also briefly turned up in the Americomics universe, before being killed off in Femforce #43 (thanks to Mike Murphy for this last snippet also).

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