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Star-Spangled Kid is the name of several fictional superheroes in the DC Comics' main shared universe.
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Fictional character history
Sylvester Pemberton
The original Star-Spangled Kid is Sylvester Pemberton, a Golden Age character. He becomes the Star-Spangled Kid in order to battle Nazism during World War II. He is unique in that he is a kid superhero who has an adult sidekick, Stripesy a.k.a. Pat Dugan. Both he and Dugan are superb acrobats along with having sufficient training in hand-to-hand combat, but the pair regularly bicker about which of them should get top billing.
Decades later, he eventually changes his name to Skyman and leads Infinity Inc.. He is killed when Harlequin III makes Solomon Grundy touch Pemberton with Mister Bones's hand, thus inflicting Bones' cyanide touch.
Courtney Whitmore
Courtney, who previously used the Star-Spangled Kid II identity, is the stepdaughter of Pat Dugan. She finds Pemberton's gear in her stepfather's belongings and dons the Cosmic Converter Belt, with a costume of her own design, 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, designs and builds S.T.R.I.P.E., an armored robot which he rides in to accompany and protect her. Eventually, she joins the JSA and, after being given Starman Jack Knight's cosmic rod, changes her identity to Stargirl.
Miss Martian
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. In Terror Titans #6, it is revealed that he is the shape-shifting Miss Martian. She uses her immunity to the brainwashing to slowly free the other combatants.
Other versions
In Kingdom Come, Alex Ross portrays 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, is accompanied by a muscular older man in a striped shirt, this one called Stripes.
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