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The Music Master (Heroic Comics)
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Unusual superhero who first appeared in the comic book Reg'lar Fellers Heroic Comics #12 (May 1942). Violinist John Wallace gets stabbed with a violin bow while protecting the mysterious old violin maker "Papa" Antonini. Antonini saves him from death with the magical Pipes of Life/Pipes of Death, giving him the ability to travel on sound waves.
Antonini gives him the pipes, but is later killed, inspiring Wallace to become a superhero.
He also got a sidekick, Downbeat. Their nemesis was The Mad Fiddler
The Music Master last appeared in the "The Room that Wasn't There" story in issue #31 of Heroic Comics #31 (July 1945).
