A Timely character called The Witness also appeared, in a different costume, as the star of the eponymous comic "The Witness" #1 (Sept. 1948), in three stories written by Lee and drawn variously by Ken Bald and Syd Shores, with Charles Nicholas providing the cover. The Grand Comics Database lists this character as a different entity than the "Mystic Comics" version, while Jess Nevins' "A Guide to Golden Age Marvel Characters" considers them the same man. However, according to "The Twelve #1", the Witness of World War II was put in suspended animation during the year 1945, suggesting that the two are in fact different characters. This is further confirmed in the "Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z Vol. 14".