Cracked.com has come up with the definitive list of the worst superheros ever. I must admit they are so bad I haven't heard of any of them.
At number 5:
Ulysses Solomon Archer
Better know as US1, Ulysses was the younger of two sons of a pair of truck drivers. When their parents were killed in a wreck, the two brothers were informally adopted by Poppa Wheelie and Wide Load Annie. A group of aliens came to Earth, seeking to recruit people to become starship pilots. They chose truckers, because of their experience with the solitude of the open road. The aliens outfit Ulysses truck with advanced technology and trained him in its use. They also implant a large metal plate in his skull which enables him to pick up Citizen's Band (C
transmissions--his "CB Skull." He can also use it to control his own truck/ship.
At number 4:
The Red Bee
Rick Raleigh fights crime during the day as assistant district attorney of Superior City and fights crime... also during the day as the Red Bee, scourge of the underworld!
He secret power was the control of bees which he released from his utility belt to attack the bad guys.
At number 3:
The Whizzer
Robert Frank is on a trip to Africa with his father, Dr. Emil Frank, where Robert is bitten by a cobra. Dr. Frank saves Robert by a transfusion of mongoose blood, and soon discovers that he has developed super-speed.
At number 2:
The Elongated Man
Ralph Dibny was a regular guy who invented a secret formula that made his body super-elastic. Ralph discovered that all the rubber-men in the world drank a soda called Gingold. Apparently Gingold is only drunk by circus freaks and other outcasts of society (presumably where we get 'being on a bender').
Finally at number 1:
The Black Condor
Thomas Wright was a Senator of the United States; who liked to dress up like an exotic male prostitute to fight crime and Nazis as the amazing Black Condor.
Lost as a child in Mongolia Thomas was originally Richard Grey and was raised by condors. Richard was found by a hermit and returned to America. He then uncovers a plot to kill Senator Thomas Wright but fails to save him and ends up stealing his identity.
