Although Batman was first called “the Dark Knight” in Batman #1 (1940), writers for DC were also using the nickname to describe their own heroes, as seen here for the Spectre and Starman from October 1942.
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The first Starman, Ted Knight, debuts in Adventure Comics #61 (March 1941). He is an inventor who discovers that “infra rays” from stars can be harnessed in a “magnetic tube” that he calls a “Gravity Rod”. Woof that’s a lot of technobabble for the 1940s! I guess the Gravity Rod lets him defy the laws […]
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