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ThoughStan Leeis an absolute icon, his first superhero is far more obscure.
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Binder, The Destroyer first premiered in 1941’sMystic Comics #6.
Dozens of Nazis gang up on the poor journalist.
Though he’s able to fight off many of them, one cowardly officer attacks him from behind.
An ex-Nazi scientist is then tossed into Kevin’s cell.
Seeing Kevin’s kindness, the scientist provides theAmerican with his life’s work, a super-soldier serum.
To help with this goal, he fashions a superhero costume and a new identity.
Calling himself The Destroyer, Marlow makes it his mission to fight Nazism until the Third Reich crumbles.
The other hero who Marlow is reminiscent of is the Guardians of the Galaxy’s Drax.
Further cementing the comparison isDrax’s often forgotten title, the Destroyer.
Aside from those similarities though, both characters share the same philosophical goal of ending despots and tyranny.
Jack Kirby and Joe Simon received death threats over that cover.
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