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It’s true! Way back in Detective Comics No. 328 they killed off Alfred "bestest butler" Pennyworth. See, Batman and Robin were fighting some goons in a construction site and Alfred drove up on a motorcycle (as he was very occasionally wont to do), and:

Alfred was duely buried, the Alfred Foundation was started in his honour and Aunt Harriet moved in with the boys before the Butlercycle had even cooled off. And this is how things stayed for the next thirty issues, until (reportedly) the appearance of Alfred on the Batman TV show necessitated that he be brought back in the comics as well. How’d they fix a man who had been smushed under a boulder, you ask? Well:

They called in Brandon Crawford! Brandon Crawford, a man who describes himself as "a radical individualist, always experimenting, always finding new laws of nature and science – laws which orthodox scientists do not yet admit". Crawford throws Alfred body  into a cellular regeneration machine and throws the switch. Evidently, this bathes the whole damn room in whatever energy the thing uses, because it’s not only "Corpsey" Pennyworth that gets a jolt. Brandon Crawford lapses into unconsciousness, Alfred, meanwhile, is indeed revived but in horrifically lumpy form:

Following this, Alfred-as-the Outsider bedeviled the Dynamic Duo with Grasshopper Men and booby traps and all manner of tomfoolery . It isn’t until issue 356 that Batman and Robin managed to track him down, where he still keeps that darn regeneration machine! Batman smashes Alfred into the machine and as expected the machine works in reverse.

Sure enough, a second dose of those crazy rays de-lumps Mr. Pennyworth and everyone gets to go home.

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Black Condor. Richard Grey Jr. had the power to fly. he was born in a caravan that was on a scientific expedition in 1940 in Mongolia. The convoy was attacked by bandits and killed everyone except the baby Richard. The child was rescued by a mysterious local race of super-intelligent condors who raised the child. A hermit in the mountains called "Father Pierre" discovers the boy and finally after a lot of effort to civilize the wild child and taught him to speak English. Already a young adult, Richard finds and kills the Mongolian bandits who killed his parents and then went to America where he discovered a plot to kill U.S. Senator Thomas Wright. It was too late to save Wright, so he decided to take his identity. Adopted the identity of Black Condor to fight corrupt politicians, smugglers. His flight power came from an exposure to radioactive meteor in the condors nest.	Doll Man His secret identity is Darrell Dane, who invented a chemical formula that reduces his height to six inches, keeping the full force of its normal size. His first adventure in Feature Comics # 27 involves the rescue of his girlfriend, Martha Roberts, after being blackmailed. Subsequently decides to fight crime and takes a red suit and blue stitching for Marta. Years later somehow the desire for Martha to join him in his small size now becomes a reality and she has the same power of reduction, becoming his partner as "DollGirl " in Doll Man # 37. He also has the help of "Elmo the Wonder Dog," a Great Dane that serves as a horse and savior in more than one occasion. Once in a while he uses a "Dollplane" that was "disguised" as a model airplane in his study when not in use . During the Second World War, Dollman often rode on a bald eagle.
Human Bomb Roy Lincoln was originally a scientist who worked with his father in a special chemical explosive "27-QRX". However, when the Nazi spies  invaded his laboratory and killed his father, Lincoln ingested the chemical to prevent it from falling into the Nazi hands. As a result, Lincoln gained the ability to cause explosions on any object that came into contact with, particularly through his hands, the only way to control was to use special asbestos gloves all the time. Dressed in a containment suit to prevent any accidental explosion, Lincoln became the "human bomb" who only takes off the gloves to expose their explosive power against the Nazis and Japanese enemies and criminals. He later obtained sufficient control over their powers to remove the containment suit, although it was always necessary to use gloves. In 1946 he acquires a sidekick named "Hustace Throckmorton," who had acquired the same powers (but focused on his feet) after receiving an emergency blood transfusion from the superhero
Phantom lady Sandra Knight, the daughter of Senator Henry Knight of the  Knight family of Opal City, felt hes life as Socialite was not the best way to help her fellow man. As she accompanied her father one night in April 1939, she noticed two men preparing their concealed handguns, aiming to killing her father. Using stealth and a rolled up newspaper, managed to detain them without being seen. Her new found sense of achievement and the thrill of adventure had affected her so he decided to become a "mystery man"	Firebrand Rod Reilly was the bored son of a rich steel magnate, who has decided to fight crime with his servant and friend, "Slugger" Dunn. Firebrand’s costume consisted of a transparent shirt and red pants, with a handkerchief mask covering the upper half of his face. Rod was injured after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, so it was replaced by his sister, Danette Reilly. Then, Rod Reilly was recovered and joined the Freedom Fighters.  Firebrand had no superpowers, he was just a hand to hand fighting champion.
The Ray The Reporter Langford "Happy" Terrill was exposed to a mysterious  solar radiation and obtained the ability to transform into a being of pure energy every time he was exposed to light. Before the Second World War, the government created a secret group known as RONOL (Research on the nature of light). A member of the RONOL Dr. Dayzl, had the theory that the light that originated thousands of years from the the creation of the planet Earth, would come back back to the planet as a dangerous entity. The only way to stop the entity of light, Dayzl believed, was to have a human linked to it. Deceiving a reporter called Happy Terrill, Dayzl and colleagues organized a trip to the atmosphere and created an "accident" in which Terrill is exposed to a genetic bomb "light." Dayzl had calculated that the offspring Terrill would be a unification of humans energy and light and the only weapon when the Light entity returned. Terrill used his powers to become the superhero The Ray. RONOL eventually lost the support of the government . The fate of Dayzl remains unknown.	Uncle Sam Uncle Sam was the leader of the Freedom Fighters. The origin of Uncle Sam is described as a spiritual entity created through an occult ritual by the Founding Fathers. Initially portrayed as a mystical being who was originally the spirit of a patriotic soldier who was slain from the Revolutionary War and that now appears in the world, when your country needs it.