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evilhorse · 21 days

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All-Star Comics #58

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chernobog13 · 2 months

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The Golden Age super group the Seven Soldiers of Victory, aka Law's Legionnaires, as depicted one the Stargirl television show.

#Seven Soldier's of Victory #Law's Legionnaires #Crimson Avenger #Green Arrow #Shining Knight #Stripesy #Vigilante #Wing #Speedy #Star-Spangled Kid #Stargirl #DC Comics

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dailyjsa · 2 months

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Leading Comics #1 cover by Mort Meskin

#dc comics #seven soldiers of victory #greg saunders #vigilante #green arrow #oliver queen #star-spangled kid #sylvester pemberton #sir justin #shining knight #roy harper #speedy #crimson avenger #lee travis #leading comics #comics

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cgbcomics · 9 months

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the-antiapocalyptic-man · 8 months

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Courtney Whitmore, The Star-Spangled Kid, more popularly known as Stargirl

Born to Barbara Whitmore and Samuel Kurtis, Court and her mother moved to Blue Valley, Nebraska shortly after Barb's second marriage to Patrick Dugan, formerly the adult sidekick "Stripsey" to the original Star-Spangled Kid, Sylvester "Sly" Pemberton. After parting ways, Pat used the money he had earned from the Pemberton Estate--both in his capacity as Sly's "chauffeur" and later his engineering work and technical advisement for Infinity Inc.--to build the mechanized battlesuit "STRIPE" (Special Tactics Robotic Integrated Power Enhancer), inspired by his son Mike's interest in giant robot toys and cartoons. Sly himself had moved on to the name "Skyman" as the number of active Starmen only continued to increase, though Sly's superhero career would be tragically cut short by the machinations of the Thorul Society...

With Barb pregnant and his old partner dead, Pat hoped to quietly retire from heroism in Blue Valley, focusing on life as a mechanic.

Courtney had other ideas.

Sharing her father's belief in "Stellarization" or the ability of individuals to draw power from star formations (first conceptualized by Stephen "The Gambler" Sharpe, then popularized by Sharpe's protege infamous cult leader Amos Fortune, founder of the Royal Flush Syndicate) with her step-brother Mike, the new siblings sought out any of Sly's effects that had recently come into Pat's possession. They lucked out with an old Knight-Tech Cosmic Staff--an incredibly old design, seemingly predating even the Cosmic Rod used by Theodore Knight during his time as the Golden Age Starman--which failed to respond at all to Mike...but took a keen interest in Court, coming alive at her touch.

While the staff itself was obviously a technological marvel, Court was surprised to find her own body becoming stronger and faster, channeling the cosmic power of the stars. Little did she or Mike know, awakening the staff had set off a chain of events that would quickly force them into the center of an almost century-long struggle between Justice and Injustice...

#dc #headverse #fanart #au #redesign #stargirl #star-spangled kid #courtney whitmore

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cantsayidont · 6 months

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April 1950. Years before Betty Kane or Barbara Gordon, the Robin solo strip in STAR SPANGLED COMICS briefly floated the idea of giving Robin a female counterpart: Roberta the Girl Wonder. The story begins at Dick Grayson's high school, where the girls are discussing their hopeless crush on Robin. One of them, redheaded Mary Wills, then has a brainstorm:

Mary is adorable in this story, although the assertion that Dick Grayson's peers are enamored with Robin (something that was repeated on and off into his college days in the 1970s) doesn't withstand close analysis. Even by the standards of the late '40s and early '50s, Robin is only a little less of a nerd than the young Clark Kent in the Superboy strip (who quickly established himself as the epitome of squaredom), and Dick Grayson at least as bad. However, Mary is determined:

A crime-compact! Obviously, Mary has already grasped the merchandising potential of being a Bat-adjacent crimefighter, but where did this teenage girl get smoke, gas, and explosive capsules? (Is that what we're supposed to assume she was making in panel 2 above?) Troubling …

As "Roberta the Girl Wonder," Mary quickly manages to introduce herself to Robin, even sneaking into the Batcave by hiding in the trunk of the Batmobile. However, to her dismay, Robin responds to her with irritation and disdain.

She asks a pretty reasonable question, honestly. Upon meeting her, Robin's immediate reaction is that "this is too dangerous a game for a girl" (but totally fine for a boy who doesn't even have any pants, apparently), and he subsequently becomes very critical of her ability to cover her tracks to protect her secret identity (much of which criticism seems unmerited or at least overblown), but even if you consider those reasonable arguments, his almost total disinterest in her (the above splash page not withstanding) does end up coming across as kind of gay. The comics were a little vague about how old Robin was supposed to be, but the beginning of this story indicates that he and Mary go to the same high school, so he's probably 15 or 16. That he reacts to a pretty girl his own age expressing obvious interest in him as if she were trying to sell him aluminum siding is thus a little odd unless, as Mary suggests, he just doesn't like girls.

To underscore the point, Robin deliberately sabotages her, arranging to douse her with chemicals (with which he's surreptitiously dosed the perfume shown below) to make her mask fall off in public:

Poor Mary.

Mary Wills is more than a little reminiscent of another STAR SPANGLED COMICS character: Merry, the Girl of a Thousand Gimmicks. First seen in STAR SPANGLED COMICS #81 in June 1948 (although she didn't adopt her costumed identity until the following issue), she was Merry Pemberton, adoptive sister of Sylvester Pemberton, the Star-Spangled Kid. Syl tried to discourage her from getting involved in crimefighting, but not only did she not listen to him, she soon took over his strip.

The above panels are from a story in STAR SPANGLED COMICS #86, which is still identified with the Star-Spangled Kid logo on the splash page even though Syl himself is nowhere in sight. With the following issue, the strip officially became Merry's in name as well as fact. However, with reader interest in superheroes fading rapidly, the strip lasted only through #90, in March 1949.

Roberta the GIrl Wonder may have originated an attempt to create a similar heroine for the Robin strip, but given how hard the ending of her story shuts down the possibility of her reappearing, one assumes editor Whitney Ellsworth decided that particular ship had sailed. National-DC was not very likely to replace Robin with a girl the way Merry had replaced her brother and Black Canary had superseded Johnny Thunder, and in any event, it had already become clear that it wasn't going to arrest the sales decline. Even Robin would soon lose the STAR SPANGLED cover slot to Tomahawk, and in 1952, the book became STAR-SPANGLED WAR STORIES.

#comics #star spangled comics #win mortimer #the writer of this story is unknown #robin the boy wonder #dick grayson #robin #roberta the girl wonder #merry the girl of 1000 gimmicks #star-spangled kid #whitney elsworth #otto binder #merry pemberton #sylvester pemberton

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laultimacocacolaeneldesierto · 1 year

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Stargirl: the lost Children #5 cover by @S_Marguerite

#dc cómics #Stargirl #star-spangled kid #Courtney Whitmore

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righthandedleftturn · 6 months

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Stargirl trades

#dc comics #stargirl #courtney whitmore #stargirl: the lost children #stars and s.t.r.i.p.e #star-spangled kid

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dc-comics-fashion · 1 year

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Outfit for Sylvester Pemberton "Star-Spangled Kid"

Mihara Yasuhiro Modified Tokyo Fall 2016

#sylvester pemberton #star-spangled kid #all star squadron #infinity inc #justice society of america #dc comics #mihara yasuhiro #blue #demin #stars

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superherobriefings · 2 years

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Star-Spangled Kid

Creator(s): Jerry Siegel

Alias(es): Sylvester Pemberton

1st Issue w/Uniform: Star-Spangled Comics #1

Year/Month of Publication: 1941/10

dc.fandom.com/wiki/Sylvester_Pemberton_(New_Earth)

#superheroes #comics #star spangled kid #star-spangled kid #sylvester pemberton #classic #golden age #blue trunks #blue underwear

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dailydccomics · 1 month

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lol everything about this is hilarious: Dinah's sheer panic, the bros poking fun at Batsy, Court making WILDLY INAPPROPRIATE JOKES Green Arrow vol 3 #12

#dinah laurel lance #courtney whitmore #oliver queen #carter hall #dc comics #JSA #justice society of america #star spangled kid #black canary #dinah lance #green arrow #hawkman #dc #GA vol 3 #arrowfam #dinahollie #comics #phil hester #the batpose i cry

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evilhorse · 19 days

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I belong in the 1950s—not the 1970s.

(All-Star Comics #58)

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chernobog13 · 5 months

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All-Star Comics #60 (June, 1976). Cover by Ernie Chia (aka Ernie Chan).

The first appearance of the obscure Justice Society of America villain Vulcan, Son of Fire.

Originally an American astronaut named...wait for it...Christopher Pike (!!!!!!!!!), Vulcan was created when his spacecraft plunged into the Sun and his spacecraft melted into a shell around him. A friendly alien saved Pike from dying, but instead of being grateful Vulcan killed him.

When Vulcan returned to Earth he took on the JSA, which he blamed for inspiring him to become an astronaut in the first place (huh?). Vulcan managed to hold his own against the team, and in the second part (in the next issue) critically injured the original Doctor Fate. Don't worry, he got better.

Vulcan had a few appearances a few years down the road, but for all intents and purposes has disappeared. I always thought it would be fun for him to go up against the hero Son of Vulcan (one of the Charlton characters that DC bought in 1983 and has mostly neglected). I envisioned Son of Vulcan and Vulcan battling it out on a Maury Povich-type TV show, with the former trying to establish the latter is really his father.

One of the best things about the revived All-Star Comics, other than presenting new adventures of the Justice Society, was Wally Wood's inking. He was the regular inker from the series' relaunch with issue #58 and, no matter who the penciller was, the book looked like a Wally Wood production. Right before he left the series, he provided the full art for a two-parter in issues #64 and 65, when the JSA went back to Arthurian times to battle Vandal Savage.

#All-Star Comics #Justice Society of America #Super Squad #Star-Spangled Kid #Flash #Power Girl #Wildcat #Vulcan Son of Fire #Christopher Pike #DC Comics #Ernie Chua #Ernie Chan

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dailyjsa · 5 months

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Earth Prime: Stargirl #4

Writer: James Robinson and Paula Sevenbergen

Artist: Jerry Ordway

Inker: Jerry Ordway

Colors: John Kalisz

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doctorslippery · 4 months

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#justice society of america #superman #batman #dr fate #hawkman #green lantern #flash #wonder woman #dr midnite #star spangled kid #robin #power girl #wildcat

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the-antiapocalyptic-man · 2 years

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INFINITY INCORPORATED, heirs to Diana’s Society and some of the her League’s greatest rivals. Led by The Fury of The Amazons, Hippolyta the Younger.

Lyta’s upbringing was unusual. Raised as the adopted ward of the Trevor family, Apokolips came calling and she was whisked away to train under the New Gods. While Uxas’ court was wary of an heir to Steppenwolf living among them, he saw an opportunity to mold a new weapon in his war against all life, as well as mock the Wonder Woman of Earth and her Old Gods. Like Scott Free, Lyta would break from the Cult of Darkseid and return to Earth. She had changed in her time away and no longer saw her mother as family, but as a rival. The Great Society of Super-Heroes had collapsed not from wars among gods and champions from beyond the stars, but from Diana caving to the needs and whims of mere mortals. Lyta wouldn’t make that mistake. She would seek out raw power in creating her own group.

Taking funding from an unknown benefactor in exchange for continuing to act in competition with the Justice League, Lyta gathered her team:

Tariq Tyler, the new Hour-Man; Beth Chapel, a brilliant young surgeon who had inherited Dr. Mid-Nite’s equipment from his protege, Pieter Cross; Natasha Irons, the Arclight Steel and honorary member of the House of El; Albert Pratt Rothstein, The Atom-Smasher; Sly Pemberton, boy hero turned solo act using Knight Industries tech developed by the original Starman; Obsidian and Jade, the twin heirs to Green Lantern and Johnny Sorrow, pure light and darkness embodied, and the young man-hawk Norda Cantrell and their adopted brother, Hector Hall.

Hector would be Lyta’s chief lieutenant and confidant, and eventually her lover. While briefly leading to her reconnecting to her humanity and even having a child of her own, but Lyta never truly let go of her rage. The loss of Hector and Daniel and her doomed war against The Endless consumed the rest of her immortal life. The rest of the group fell apart for a time shortly after.

Sly’s death, Todd and Jenni’s continued mental health struggles, and Norda’s return to Hawkworld left Al, Rick, Beth, and Tasha without a clear way forward. It would be sometime before Sly’s successor, Courtney Whitmore, would begin to gather the next iteration of the team...

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