Face (Columbia Comics)

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character_name = The Face
publisher = Columbia Comics
debut = "Big Shot Comics" #1 (May 1940)
creators = Mart Bailey
alter_ego = Tony Trent
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powers = Originally, none; currently, causes terrifying hallucinations.

The Face is a fictional character, a comic book superhero that appeared in 1940s comics during what historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books.

Publication history

Created by artist Mart Bailey and an unknown writer. The Face first appeared in the Columbia Comics omnibus title "Big Shot Comics" #1 (May 1940) and continued until issue 62 (January, 1946). From issue 63 the feature continued as Tony Trent until "Big Shot" 104, the final issue of the series. Apart from appearing in "Big Shot", The Face also had two issues of his own title (1941-1942), as well as two as Tony Trent (1948). [cite web
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The character has recently reappeared as part of Dynamite Entertainment's "Project Superpowers", going by the name "Mister Face." In this series he is capable of producing (uncontrolled) terrifying hallucinations in others.

Fictional biography

The Face is radio announcer Tony Trent, who decides to fight crime after having witnessed a murder committed by gangsters disguised as cops. Having no innate superpowers, he instead uses a frightful mask to scare criminals, not unlike Batman. With issue 63, he no longer wears the mask and fights crime as himself.

"Project Superpowers"

At some point after World War II, The Fighting Yank persuades Trent to don his mask just one more time, immediately after which the Yank traps him in the mystical Urn of Pandora, as part of a misguided quest to end all evil on Earth. Decades later, the Urn is broken and all the prisoners are freed, although some of them are now changed; Mr. Face discovers that anyone who looks at his masked face now experiences hallucinations of whatever they fear most.

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