Source: cbr.com

4. The Rocketeer

Look, if I were more of a biased man, this would be my number one entry by a mile.

I LOVE The Rocketeer. I am IN LOVE with The Rocketeer. He is everything I love about comic books and more.

Cliff Secord was a Los Angeles-based racing and stunt pilot in 1938. One night, he spotted two gangsters hiding something in his plane, and investigated. He found the thing they were hiding: a jet pack. A jet pack designed by Howard Hughes that was being stolen for the Nazis. Because, holy s**t, jetpack Nazis.

Cliff stole the jet pack, had his friend make him a sweet helmet, and took to the skies as The Rocketeer, professional Nazi puncher. And this was in 1938. America was four years away from entering the war. But Cliff knew right from wrong, and went after the Nazi menace. Like a true hero.