Meteor

Real Name: Mickey O'Toole

First Appearance: Silver Streak Comics #11 (1941)

Original Publisher: Lev Gleason

Created by: Bob Wood

Golden Age Origin:

Mickey O'Toole is in need of a blood transfusion and is given blood by the Silver Streak, but because of the "secret fluid" in the Streak's blood there was a side effect: Mickey gains the Streak's powers, and becomes first Mercury and then the Meteor, the Streak's sidekick along with his other sidekick Whiz the falcon.

The Meteor's powers include super-speed and flight.

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