Ace of Space. “Young millionaire sportsman” Ace Egan discovers a crashed alien spaceship. The dying alien inside gives Ace a power belt and warns him of the imminent invasion of the Slogons. Ace uses his new powers and his space ship to defeat the Slogons. Later Ace fights German spies and the Mad Scientist Dr. Devlin, whose serum gives his gang of thugs super-speed. At length Ace’s identity becomes known while he is serving in the Army Air Corps. Ace appears in stories with titles like “The Phony Foreign Committee,” “Speed, Inc.,” and “The Ace in the Army.”

First Appearance: Feature Comics #38 (Quality), Nov. 1940. 4 appearances, 1940-1941. Created by H. Weston Taylor and Harry Campbell.

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