Number 2061: Get outta my face, Micro-Face

Micro-Face, created by Al Ulmer for Hillman’s Clue Comics, was yet another short-lived costumed, gimmicky hero of the World War II era. Here's what Public Domain Superheroes has to say about Micro-Face:

“Tom Wood was a factory worker and a failed inventor. Years ago, he invented a "Micro-Mask" - a full-face mask that contained a built-in microphone (which allowed hm to amplify and throw his voice), a hearing amplifier, and ‘photoelectric lenses’ that gave him x-ray vision. He could also attach telephone wires to his mask to make phone calls.” The desire to carry a telephone on one’s person has come true.

I admit to being intrigued by the character’s name, originally picturing him as being along the lines of a Dick Tracy villain, with a tiny face planted on a normal-sized head. Not so.

Both Micro-Face’s name and his powers are at least unusual.

I couldn’t resist showing a panel of Micro-Face tweeting (above). “Tweet” is a word that in our era has taken a new meaning.

From Clue Comics #2 (1943). Signed by Ulmer in the last panel.

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