Alias, Alias The Dragon

Stuck with one of the most cryptic names in comics was the crimefighter known as Alias the Dragon. Whether its "Alias the Dragon" like "Winnie the Pooh", or if its pronounced alias "The Dragon" is largely confusing as everyone refers to him in the story as "Alias the Dragon", so it appears to be more the former. Gaining only a single appearance in Chesler's 1944 one shot Skyrocket Comics, Alias was a standard cop-turned-vigilante character that was rampant in the Golden Age. Maurice Whitman made this stock superhero who doubled as police scientist Bill Norton in the forensics department. He was stumped by a series of robbers that target armored cars on cash runs with explosives. Sgt. Norton examines a piece of evidence left at the latest crime which the police captain shows nothing but contempt for the beaker jockey, believing only in action, not science. Bill slips into his alias of Alias the Dragon and tracks the crooks to their hideout. Alias uses a flame thrower which the bad guys were prepared for with some handy but still fatal asbestos shields, allowing the gang to escape. Going back to his daytime duds, Norton tries to convince the commissioner that the thieves will hit the national bank next, only to receive a bunch of guff from the higher-ups. Norton switches to his Dragon outfit to cripple the criminals' getaway car with his patented pyrotechnics, later on claiming to his superiors that the mystery man must get inside information from the police, which is truly ignorant if he wants to keep his alias as Alias. Our unorthodox crusader has an odd enough offensive with a weapon capable of causing massive property damage, but to have the befuddling surname of Alias the Dragon just makes you think his entire label was the end result of a Seinfeld routine.