History
Preface[]
The Moon Man was just one of many costumed operatives active during World War II who were recruited into the United States military. The purpose was to enlist such individuals in order to publish propaganda in the form of comic books that were commissioned by the United States military and published by Timely Comics. These comics were used to convince Americans to support the war, and increase enlistment. Like many heroes recruited in this fashion, Moon Man's fictional exploits were few. For most of these early heroes it was due to their deaths in combat.[2]
Presumably, much like the Young Allies,[3] the fictional exploits of the Moon Man were based on actual events. For the sake of clarity, however, this article differentiates between the two.
Solo Adventures[]
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Moon Man's 1st appearance.
Not much is known about the 1940s hero known as the Moon Man. He apparently was wealthy to some degree as he owned his own penthouse in the city with its own secret garage. Interestingly, he has never been seen out of his costume, nor would he go into action unless it was on the night of a full moon.
One night while reading the newspaper, he read a story about how some orphans were poisoned by tainted meat purchased for their Christmas dinner. As the meat was purchased by Boss McCool and his secretary, he attempted to force them into a confession.
Driving to the home of McCool's secretary, he confronted her and she passed out. Taking her purse he learned that McCool purchased 100 pounds of cheap meat from a butcher. Traveling to the orphanage, he checked the leftover meat and found it rank. After checking on the sick children, the Moon Man confronted McCool in his home with his accusations. McCool responded by having his thugs attack. Moon Man fought them off and fled. Returning to McCool's secretary's home. Moon Man forced her into confessing that McCool bought the cheapest meat possible so that he could pocket the rest of the money himself.
Going back after McCool, the Moon Man followed him onto a train out of town where he easily overpowered McCool and handed him over, with his secretary's confession, to the police.[1]
Crazy SUES[]
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Moon Man as a member of the Crazy S.U.E.S.