Four more comic book superpatriots

THE SHIELD

The first flagrocking superhero, this “G- Man Extraordinary” debuted in Pep Comics # 1 i n January 1940, over a year before Captain America. His alter ego was chemist Joe Higgins, out to avenge his father’s murder by a Nazi saboteur. X- rays and chemistry powered this FBI super- agent, who reported directly to cross- dressing commie- basher J Edgar Hoover.