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3 | '''''Ace Powers''''' is a {{detective|Drama}} hero from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, created by Gus Ricca and published by Lev Gleason in ''Silver Streak Comics'' #3-6. He was the head of a city's detective bureau, and spent his days encountering strange criminal masterminds. |
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7 | * ArchEnemy: The Panther, an escaped asylum patient who dresses in a catlike costume to commit crimes, serves as this to Ace, being his only recurring foe. |
8 | * BuriedAlive: In ''Silver Streak Comics'' #5, the Panther tries to get rid of Ace Powers by burying him alive. [[spoiler:The Panther and his gang end up buried in the same hole after the building collapses in on them.]] |
9 | * CallingCard: The Panther leaves a panther claw at the site of each murder he commits. |
10 | * DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:The Panther jumps off a burning building and is seemingly killed by the fall at the end of ''Silver Streak Comics'' #4, but he survives and returns in the next issue. In said next issue, the Panther and his gang are all knocked into a deep hole by debris that buries them alive. The Panther survives this, only to be killed by his boss the Spook, but his goons are killed.]] |
11 | * ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Heat Devron, BigBad of ''Silver Streak Comics'' #3, steals Ace's badge and car in order to bluff his way through the police blockades with the loot he stole. |
12 | * TheManBehindTheMan: The Panther, Ace's ArchEnemy, is revealed to be working for a mastermind known as the Spook in the comic's final issue. |
13 | * NightOfTheLivingMooks: The Spook has skeletal henchmen who only exist based on his will. |
14 | * ProtagonistTitle |
15 | * ScaryScorpions: Ace is attacked by a giant one at the beginning of ''Silver Streak Comics'' #6. |
16 | * TheSociopath: "Heat" Devron, a gangster who robs a bank, impersonates an officer and orders the police to kill the rest of his gang so he can keep the loot. |
17 | * StarterVillain: Heat Devron, a gangster who robbed a payroll and was working on betraying his gang in order to take all the money for himself. He's arrested at the end of the issue, and never returns. |
18 | * YouAllMeetInACell: The Panther's scheme in ''Silver Streak Comics'' #5 involves him breaking some of his old asylum buddies out of prison. |
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