Another elimination and these are your top 5! Who are your favorites? Choose as many as you like.
Superman - 1938
The Flash (Jay Garrick) - 1940
Black Canary - 1947
Zatanna - 1964
Huntress (Helena Wayne) - 1977
Another elimination and these are your top 5! Who are your favorites? Choose as many as you like.
I am pleasantly baffled by how Helena Wayne has clung to life, here, after DC itself has been so willing to abandon (or replace) her for so long!
Superman, again
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
And FYI--your favorite to debut in the early 1940s, still in the running: the Flash!
If we were going by on sale dates, rather than cover dates, the Flash would be 1939. The first issue of FLASH COMICS (January 1940) went on sale November 10th, 1939. The first issue of WHIZ COMICS (February 1940)--numbered 2--went on sale December 1st, 1939 (approximate). Fawcett first produced two ashcans to solicit advertisers, one called FLASH COMICS (January 1940) and the other called THRILL COMICS (January 1940), starring Captain Thunder. When Fawcett found that they couldn't trademark FLASH COMICS, THRILL COMICS or Captain Thunder--they had to make the change.