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The Masked Marvel (1943) was a 12 chapter serial from Republic, who produced the best known of the serials. In it the Marvel, played by David Bacon, a hero dressed in a business suit and a face mask fights the Japanese saboteur Sakima. The hook of the story is that the audience doesn't know who the hero is until the final reel. The Masked Marvel was a ‘jinx’ role. Bacon got the role because four previous actors had injured themselves and were unable to work. While filming one of the serial’s big fight scenes, every actor but Bacon was seriously injured. "I’ll probably get hurt going home in the car," he had joked. He was murdered and found in his car just after the production of the series had been completed.

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