#Dan the Dyna-Mite

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Dan The Dyna-Mite

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

Creator(s): Paul Norris

Alias(es): Daniel Dunbar

1st Issue w/Uniform: Star-Spangled Comics #16

Year/Month of Publication: 1943/01

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Promotional art for The Golden Age (1993) four issue miniseries. Art by Paul Smith with colours by Richard Ory.

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Rescued from obscurity when he became on of the Young All-Stars (1987), Dan the Dynamite (former sidekick to the deceased hero TNT) found greater fame (infamy?) as Dynaman in the Elseworlds mini-series The Golden Age (1993).  Dynaman is fills the void in a world that has no Superman.

Despite being an Elseworlds story, several elements actually made their way into mainstream DC continuity (until the New 52 screwed up everything royally). This was also the story that jumpstarted writer James Robinson’s career at DC, leading to him help re-launch the Justice Society of America and Starman in their own books.

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For all the Golden Age heroes, whether JSA, Seven Soldier, Freedom Fighter, or All-Star that have survived into the present relatively vital, it’s definitely worth remembering those are truly the exceptions. Most of them got old just like anybody else. And that’s certainly got to bring up at least a few feelings of “why not me?”

so i Was Looking for a Uesd Things shop and found This

( a Superhero team poster ) Its for Something Called OLD JUSTICE and i Have to Aks

is This a real Thing or Something for Some Movie makeing Fun Of sidekicks? and If There real What Was There Story

Well this is certainly something. Honestly the story here is a little sad and a little inevitable considering the kind of generational effect that the superhero community has had. While most of the still living JSA happened to stumble into this or that circumstance that have kept them young (or at least, young enough) into the modern day, many of the people around them have not been so "lucky"

And so a bunch of them got together and formed a group they called "Old Justice"

Daniel Dunbar AKA Dan the Dyna Mite: A Golden Age sidekick to the beloved and mourned TNT

Mortimer and Amelia Jibbet (Nee Hunkel) AKA the Cyclone Kids: The former sidekicks of the original Red Tornado, married in adulthood. Mortimer "Dinky" Jibbet is the younger brother of famous newspaper comic artist Scribbly Jibbet.

Doiby Dickles: A Brooklyn cabbie (and part time alien prince consort) and ally to the original Green Lantern

Merry Pemberton AKA Merry, Girl of 1000 Gimmicks: Adopted sister of the original Star Spangled Kid. In adulthood she married the original Brainwave (seriously) and had two children by him.

Thorndyke Thompkins AKA Second Sweep: The foremost member of Hourman's wartime "Minutemen of America" (Think the boy scouts, but with a lot more scrap collecting and nazi punching)

In their old age, motivated by various unhappinesses in their "golden years" they sought to make sure that no other young people in their positions would ever make their "mistakes". Trying to turn public opinion against the hero team Young Justice and even pushing for legislation to criminalize superheroism under a certain age (the irony of these golden age heroes pushing for another hero registry that could only have been enforced by invasion of secret identities evidently did not occur to them)

Due to a chaotic incident where the ages of most superheroes got swapped, leaving the heroes of Young Justice as the adult chaperones of a now tweenaged Justice League, Old Justice was able to see what kind of mettle these new kids would muster and decided to part ways as friends.

They were REALLY pushing the court of public opinion there for a couple months though, so that's probably where the poster came from.

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Blue Beetle and the All-Star Squadron & Freedom Fighters by Jerry Ordway

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The Young All-Stars house ad (circa December 1988)

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After 31 issues the first run of The Young All-Stars came to an end. The final issue had a cover date of November, 1989. ("Sons of Dawn pt IV... Men and Supermen", The Young All-Stars 31#, DC Comic Event)

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First appearance of Iron Munro.

[from Young All-Stars (1987) #1]

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Review: Stargirl: The Lost Children #1

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Review: Stargirl: The Lost Children #1[Editor’s Note: This review may contain spoilers] Writer: Geoff JohnsArt: Todd NauckColors: Matt HermsLetters: Rob Leigh   Reviewed by: Matthew B. Lloyd   Summary Stargirl (Courtney Whitmore) and Red Arrow (Emiko Queen) are on the search for Wing, the supposedly deceased “eight” Soldier of Victory.  Their trail leads to the very-much alive Daniel Dunbar,…

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“Dan the…”

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Dan The Dyna-Mite

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

Creator(s): Paul Norris

Alias(es): Daniel “Dan” Dunbar

1st Issue w/Uniform: Star Spangled Comics #10

Year/Month of Publication: 1942/07

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To be fair, there’s hardly anything written about any of them anywhere. It’s like they were erased.

Stargirl: The Lost Children (2022) #1

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You have any cool trivia about the time Axis America attacked the Perisphere, and they were seen off by the Young All-Stars? All I know is the weird trivia that both groups had line-ups that seem eerily similar to each other and to the Justice League.

(Sidenote, are there any theories about that?)

Sure. The Battle of Flushing Meadows (named after the park where the Trylon and the Perisphere now sit) was actually the inaugural battle of the Young All Stars, who certainly weren't a team the All Stars had expected to put together.

(TW below, nazi imagery)

(A lineup of Axis Amerika from an internal Nazi file captured post war, marked under "Projekt: Gesellschaft")

The Axis Amerika was interesting because, as its name implied, it was not a team active on the actual fronts of the war but was a fifth columnist group made up of homegrown fascist elements from right here in the USA, recruiting mostly for American fascist groups. Its lineup was majority German-American but on member "Usil, the Sun Archer" was later identified as an Italian-American and they had attempted to recruit young Nisei Miya Shimada to their cause after her parents were interned from their home on the west coast.

The Young All-Star's lineup had come from all over

(Poster of the Young All-Stars produced c. 1943 for propaganda purposes)

Left to Right: Iron Munro, Fury, Neptune Perkins, Tsunami, Flying Fox and Dan the Dyna-Mite.

The team was "assembled" more or less because they happened to be present when the attack went down. Axis Amerika's target had of course been the All Stars themselves. Team members Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle were quickly taken out of the fight when Iron Munro, Flying Fox and Fury jumped in, holding off the fascist invaders long enough to force a retreat when Green Lantern arrived.

Neptune Perkins and Tsunami (who Axis Amerika had previously tried to recruit) were inducted into the "team" along with Dan the Dyna-Mite who had recently lost his beloved partner TNT in a battle with nazi saboteurs where he and Munro had first met.

Now having this small but notable group of underage superhumans needing guidance, the All Stars decided basically on a whim to assemble the group into a team. The All Stars, despite the nature of their membership, were always low on manpower so a few extra hands were not going to be refused due to age (especially since a good chunk of the Squadron's membership already had young partners or wards) As for the second part of your question, you're not wrong. Both teams and the most iconic lineups of the JLA have: Invulnerable and Super Strong (Ubermensch/Iron Munro/ Superman) Based off of flying, nocturnal animals (Great Horned Owl/Flying Fox/Batman) Female warrior with basis in pagan mythology (Gurda/Fury/Wonder Woman) Young sidekick to a more expirienced fighter (The Bat/Dyna-Mite/Robin)

Aquatic superhuman (Sea Wolf/Neptune Perkins/Aquaman) and Archer (Usil/Tigress/Green Arrow)

I really couldn't tell you why though, other than the stars aligning to place these archetypes at these moments in time. Whether that coincidence has some sort of meaning for you is a question for a spirit medium, not a historian.

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Crimson Avenger and Golden Age heroes by Andy Kubert

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If you follow this blog, you know I absolutely love everything Earth Two written by Roy Thomas at DC in the 1980s, from All-Star Squadron to Infinity Inc to Young All-Stars and beyond. So when this issue of Alter Ego magazine arrived in the mail yesterday, I was pumped and read it from cover-to-cover in one afternoon. Such fantastic stories about an amazing series that didn't survive very long. I particularly have always been taken with Thomas's theory about the Crisis erasing the big Golden Age heroes but not their energies. I thought replacing the DC trinity with brand new heroes and adding in a few other young guns was an ingenious solution. That's something I miss in today's comics; a commitment to continuity and the clever retcon to solve a continuity problem.