Created by Ben Thompson, who also did Ka-Zar for Timely / Atlas / Marvel, the Masked Marvel was among the first of the characters created in response to the huge popularity of Superman.
Masked Marvel was a hero whose secret identity was unknown. He fought crime with the help of a trio of assistants known as ZL, ZR, and ZY. He operated out of a glass-domed mountaintop headquarters. He had a number of gadgets and weapons such as a telepathically controlled plane, a zeppelin, a paralyzing ray gun, and atelevisor- a device which let him see anywhere in the world
