The Masked Marvel

Real Name: Chet Fairchild

Identity/Class: Normal human

Occupation: Unknown

Affiliations: Unknown

Enemies: Unknown

Known Relatives: Colonel Carlton Fairchild (father), Marion Fairchild (sister)

Aliases: Slim Crane

Base of Operations: American West, c.1880s

First Appearance: Gunsmoke #1 (Western Comics [an imprint of Youthful], April/May 1949)

Powers/Abilities: Skilled gunslinger and horse rider.

History: Though born into a life of privilege, the son of an oil millionaire, Chet Fairchild served a sense of justice, riding the range as the Masked Marvel, a skull-faced crimefighter.

Comments: Masked Marvel took second billing in the comic Gunsmoke, after the gunslinger (masked in the first issue, unmasked thereafter) from whom the comic took it's title.

Thanks to Darrin Wiltshire for the use of the Micro Hero image of the Masked Marvel.

CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with

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