3) QUICKSILVER (but not Pietro Maximoff)
Certainly the hero with the highest modern profile of anyone on this list, Quality Comics’ Quicksilver returned from limbo in the 1990s to become the basis of Max Mercury, zen master of speed. Never given a secret identity in the Golden Age, Quicksilver nonetheless plied his acrobatic trade for the better part of five years in National Comics, also the home of Uncle Sam. His general lack of defining features allowed him to be shaped into a perfect foil for Wally West and the other speedsters during Mark Waid’s classic Flash run…