Star-Spangled Kid

Template:Comics-tense-date Star-Spangled Kid is the name of several fictional superheroes in the DC Comics universe.

Fictional character history

Sylvester Pemberton

Main article: Sylvester Pemberton

The original Star-Spangled Kid was Sylvester Pemberton, a Golden Age character. He became the Star-Spangled Kid in order to battle Nazism during World War II. He was unique in that he was a kid superhero who had an adult sidekick, Stripesy a.k.a. Pat Dugan. Both he and Dugan were superb acrobats along with having sufficient training in hand-to-hand combat.

Decades later, he eventually changed his name to Skyman and led Infinity Inc..

Courtney Whitmore

Main article: Stargirl

Courtney, who previously used the Star-Spangled Kid II identity, is the stepdaughter of Pat Dugan. She found Pemberton's gear in her stepfather's belongings and donned the costume in order to annoy him as partial revenge for marrying her mother and supposedly forcing the family to move from Los Angeles to Blue Valley, Nebraska. Dugan, a skilled mechanic, designed and built S.T.R.I.P.E., an armored robot which he rides in to accompany and protect her. Eventually, she joined the JSA and, after being given Starman Jack Knight's cosmic rod, changed her identity to Stargirl.

Other versions

In Kingdom Come, Alex Ross portrayed a later Star-Spangled Kid (simply called Stars) as an African-American street kid wearing a leather jacket with an American flag bandana,and a T-shirt with an inverted American flag, using the cosmic rod in conjunction with the cosmic converter belt. He too was accompanied by a muscular older man in a striped shirt, this one called Stripes.

External links

• Don Markstein's Toonopedia
• Classic Comic Books: The Star Spangled Kid