Tor the Magic Master

"I'd better be prepared to pit my magic against any trouble."

~ Tor the Magic Master

TOR THE MAGIC MASTER
Real Name:  Jim Slade
First Appearance: Crack Comics # 10 (February 1941)
Publisher:  Quality Comics
Creator:  Fred Guardineer

"Jim Slade the roving press photographer secretly is Tor the Magic Master and matches his occult powers against saboteurs and enemies of America."


Jim Slade was a press photographer who, when he put on a fake mustache, tuxedo and red cape, became Tor the Magic Master.   As "Jimmy" Slade traveled the world taking pictures, he inevitably stumbled onto some trouble that Tor handled.  In his initial four appearances, he was the standard magician but later started using backward spells, similar to other magicians of the time (creator Fred Guardineer being the common denominator with these other mystics.)

Tor appeared in Crack Comics #10-26.


The following is Tor's second appearance in Crack Comics # 11.

Zanzibar the Magician

"Ah! A thought wave. It's a murder.  I must go there at once.  They'll need my help!"

~ Zanzibar the Magician

Zanzibar is rewarded in Mystery Men Comics # 6

ZANZIBAR THE MAGICIAN
Real Name:  Unknown 
First Appearance: Mystery Men Comics # 1 (August 1939)
Publisher:  Fox Feature Syndicate
Creator:  George Tuska

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The fez-wearing Zanzibar the Magician debuted in Mystery Men Comics #1 and appeared there until the comic ended with issue # 31 (February 1942).  Zanzibar traveled and aided the police when he could to fight injustice and battle evil!

Doctor Fate

"By the wisdom of Nabu, I banish you! Begone!"

~ Doctor Fate

DOCTOR FATE

From More Fun Comics #55

Real Name:  Kent Nelson 

First Appearance: More Fun Comics # 55 (May 1940)

Publisher:  DC Comics

Creator:  Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman

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Doctor Fate was born Kent Nelson.  While exploring an ancient Egyptian temple as a young boy with his father, he accidentally released the alien Nabu from suspended animation.  With the death of Kent's father the same day, Nabu raised Kent, training him in the mystical arts of magic.  As a adult, Kent became the "greatest of all masters of the supernatural."  

From a mysterious tower in Salem, Massachusetts, Doctor Fate battled all manner of evil, often with his beloved Inza Cramer.  He became a charter member of the Justice Society of America.

The comic below is "the Origin of Doctor Fate", which ran in More Fun Comics # 67 (May 1941).