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The costumed adventurers belonged to at least two distinct groups in two different time periods: the Minutemen of the 1940s and the Crimebusters of the 1960s and 1970s. The first costumed adventurer to be featured in the news was Hooded Justice (although it is mentioned that Silk Spectre was featured in an interview earlier). These first adventurers were looked upon favorably, and the Minutemen were often seen as heroes to the cause of criminal justice. Their actual identities were also closely guarded secrets. While the adventurers where inspired and motivated by the fictional pulp heroes of the '40s, their existence brought a decline to this genre of literature, and comic books turned to pirate-themed stories.

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rdfs:label	Costumed adventurer
rdfs:comment	The costumed adventurers belonged to at least two distinct groups in two different time periods: the Minutemen of the 1940s and the Crimebusters of the 1960s and 1970s. The first costumed adventurer to be featured in the news was Hooded Justice (although it is mentioned that Silk Spectre was featured in an interview earlier). These first adventurers were looked upon favorably, and the Minutemen were often seen as heroes to the cause of criminal justice. Their actual identities were also closely guarded secrets. While the adventurers where inspired and motivated by the fictional pulp heroes of the '40s, their existence brought a decline to this genre of literature, and comic books turned to pirate-themed stories.
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abstract	The costumed adventurers belonged to at least two distinct groups in two different time periods: the Minutemen of the 1940s and the Crimebusters of the 1960s and 1970s. The first costumed adventurer to be featured in the news was Hooded Justice (although it is mentioned that Silk Spectre was featured in an interview earlier). These first adventurers were looked upon favorably, and the Minutemen were often seen as heroes to the cause of criminal justice. Their actual identities were also closely guarded secrets. While the adventurers where inspired and motivated by the fictional pulp heroes of the '40s, their existence brought a decline to this genre of literature, and comic books turned to pirate-themed stories. Throughout the World War II, Nazi Germany employed masked agents like Screaming Skull and Captain Axis. The adventurers confronted other persons who assumed masked identities as villains, like King Mob and Screaming Skull. When they Minutemen were dissolved, Captain Metropolis attempted to resurrect vigilantism with the Crimebusters. During that era however, costumed adventuring began to lose much of its appeal since American society began to shift radically, especially during the 1960s when social unrest became much more prominent. The year 1977 saw a national strike by police, who felt their jobs were at stake because of vigilantism. Later that same year, the Keene Act was passed, making costumed adventuring illegal, unless participants were willing to enter government service, as did the Comedian and Dr. Manhattan who had cooperated earlier in Vietnam. Dan Dreiberg and Laurie Juspeczyk both retired their costumed personae but did not take the route of Ozymandias, who had chosen to make his identity public (two years prior to Keene's passage) and built a multi-billion corporation from his superhero image.

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