Burton Slade was a reporter at the Daily Free Press who became the crime fighter called the Wasp. He picked the name because his cape looks like a pair of insect wings.

He had no superpowers.

*Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1
*Silver Streak Comics #1-2

*[http://www.toonopedia.com/wasp39.htm Toonopedia]
*[http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/w/wasp.htm International Hero]
*[http://www.dpccomics.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/theamericancomicshop/goldenagedatabase/index.php?search=wasp&searchnames=on Golden Age Heroes Directory]
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