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V-Agents.
The V-Agents were Jean Hopper and several other men and women who fought
against the German menace. They had no superpowers.
Valkyrie.
Lisellotte von Schellendorf is raised by the Germans to be the most alluring
and evil of all women and the most skilled and deadly of all pilots. Aided
by the Airmaidens, she chews her way
through the Allied pilots until she runs into Airboy,
who helps show her the wickedness of her ways. She repents and goes to
work for the Allies, slaughtering German pilots.
Vana.
Vana is an alien, of the planet Antaclea, who comes to Earth on her honeymoon
with her husban Martan the Marvel Man. Unfortunately,
while she's here she discovers that evil aliens, carrying out the orders
of the Supreme Three Of The Universe, have already arrived on Earth and
are trying to conquer Earth. Vana and Martan fight against the invading
aliens. Vana has superstrength and telepathy as well as advanced technology
(i.e., rayguns).
Vapo-Man.
Scientist Bradford Cole is working on being able to dissolve and solidify
and expand things. Unfortunately he is the victim of German sabotage and
is blown up along with his laboratory. Instead of dying, however, he gains
superpowers, and uses them to fight against the crime and evil and the
enemies of America. He can turn into "living vapor" and fly.
Veiled
Avenger. Ginny Spears, society woman, gets fed up with
crime and decides to do something about it in a costume. She has no powers
but is good with her whip.
Victory
Boys. These four nameless costumed boys fought against
the Germans from the Black Forest. They had no superpowers but were good
archers and were clever.
The
Vigilante. Greg Sanders is a singing cowboy and the descendant
of a cowboy and Indian fighter. He works as a radio singing cowboy while
fighting crime as the masked Vigilante. He is helped by Billy
Gunn and then later Stuff, the Chinatown
Kid. He is a member of the 7 Soldiers
of Victory. He has no superpowers but is a good fighter, a crack
shot with his six-guns, and very good at riding his motorcycle.
Vision. Aarkus, aka the Vision, was, during the Golden Age, an alien policeman who came to Earth from another dimension to enforce justice. Well, that was his first origin, anyhow. As it turns out, the Timely books gave him not one other origin but two; which of the three you choose as canon is up to you. The first alternate origin comes from a text piece in Marvel Mystery #23, in which it said that the Smoke World, Aarkus' homeworld, exists thousands of miles from Earth, in another dimension. (You're reading that correctly: thousands of miles from Earth, and also in another dimension). The Vision was a "Keeper of Law" on that planet and was responsible for capturing the criminal (never named) who committed the first murder on Smoke World in centuries. The Vision, assisted by the "Law-Giver," Pearl Forrester, was looking for a suitable place of banishment for the murderer when he lucked into contact with an Earth scientist by the name of Markham Erickson. Erickson had pierced the spatial/dimensional barriers and asked the Vision to come to Earth to act as a super-powered guardian over humanity. The Vision's first attempt to come to Earth resulted in him going to Jupiter, where he left the murderer. He then came to Earth. It is said, in the text piece, that the Vision's race breathes smoke and that Smoke World has no houses, as its inhabitants use "pocket projection machines" to put themselves to sleep on the ground at their convenience. The second alternate origin comes from Marvel
Mystery #45. In that story Japanese agents travel to Shangri-La to obtain
its secret of immortality. The Vision appears there to oppose them, claiming
that he was the "first High Lama of Shangri-La." He says that he discovered
the secret of immortality in Shangri-La, untold centuries ago, and that
he made himself immortal, pledging himself to help the humanity. What he
did after he left Shangri-La, or indeed when he left Shangri-La to begin
with, is not mentioned.
V-Man.
Jerry Steele is an enemy of the Axis during WW2 and fights them in Europe
and England. He has no superpowers, although he keeps a mini-radio in a
ring on his finger.
The
Voice (I). Professor Bert Wilson invents a “suit of invisibility,”
but rather than use it himself he gives it to his friend, police Detective
Jim Brant, who puts it to good use fighting crime. Wilson then uses the
remaining cloth for odds and ends, like making his car vanish. The Voice
has no superpowers, but is invisible when he wears the suit.
The
Voice (II). Dan Lang is the son of a pair of circus performers.
Raised in the circus, he learns many strange and unusual talents from them,
as well as gaining powers from his parents. He uses his powers and abilities
to fight crime. He carries a pistol which fires tranquilizer bullets. His
powers include superstrength, superagility, vocal hypnotism, vocal mind
control, ventriloquism, and other vocal tricks.
Volton
(2) This nameless and originless character fought crime.
He has “the electrical power of elongation,” superstrength, and can generate
electrical blasts.
Voodoo
Man. Bob Warren, square-jawed young doctor, goes to Haiti
to set up his medical practice and to investigate voodoo. Bob ends up tangling
with the "Voodoo Man," an evil houngan.
Vulcan.
Vulcan is a descendant of the Roman god of fire, and was born on an island
in the South Pacific. He has control over fire and can fly by heating his
body up.
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