Star-Spangled kid | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics |
First appearance | Sylvester Pemberton: Star Spangled Comics #1 (October 1941) Courtney Whitmore: Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #0 (July 1999) Miss Martian: Teen Titans #37 (August 2006) |
In-story information | |
Notable aliases | Miss Martian Courtney Whitmore Sylvester Pemberton/Skyman |
Abilities | Sylvester Pemberton
Courtney Whitmore
Miss MartianTo view all abilities click here: Miss Martian’s abilities or White Martians |
The Star-Spangled Kid is the name of several superheroes in the DC Comics' main shared universe.
The original Star-Spangled Kid was Sylvester Pemberton, a Golden Age character, created by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel. He adopted the identity to battle Nazism during World War II, and was unique in being a child with an adult sidekick, Stripesy a.k.a. Pat Dugan. [1] [2] Both he and Dugan were superb acrobats along with having sufficient training in hand-to-hand combat, but the pair regularly bickered about which of them should get top billing.
Decades later, he changed his name to Skyman and led Infinity Inc. [3] He was later killed by Mister Bones's cyanide touch.
Courtney is Pat Dugan's stepdaughter, who found Pemberton's gear in his belongings and donned the Cosmic Converter Belt, with a costume of her own design. She begins her career as the second Star-Spangled Kid to annoy Dugan as partial revenge for him marrying her mother and supposedly forcing the family to move from Los Angeles to Blue Valley, Nebraska. Dugan, a skilled mechanic, designs and builds S.T.R.I.P.E., a mecha which he rides in to accompany and protect her. Eventually, she joins the JSA and, after being given Jack Knight's cosmic rod, changes her identity to Stargirl.
A third Star-Spangled Kid appears in Terror Titans #1 and is subsequently captured by the Terror Titans team for the Dark Side Club. The Star-Spangled Kid is forced to fight in a tournament against other meta-humans, going on to win the tournament. During the course of the storyline he appears to have a much stronger resistance to brainwashing than the other fighters, although he does eventually succumb. Later, it is revealed that he is the shape-shifting Miss Martian, who is immune to the brainwashing and gradually frees the other combatants. [4]
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