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Team Roster: Dyna-Mite, Flying Fox, Fury, Arn "Iron" Munro, Neptune Perkins, Sandy the Golden Boy, Tsunami, Tigress (associate member)
Base of Operations: The Perisphere, New York, NY
Current Status: asorbed into the All-Star Squadron
First Appearance: Young All-Stars# 1, 1987.
History
On a mission for the All-Star Squadron in late April, 1942. The duo known as TNT and Dyna-Mite encounter Axis America, a group of Axis metahuman agents sent to America to destroy the US infrastructre and cause damage and confusion to the Allies. During the course of this battle, TNT was killed. Dyna-Mite was saved and aided by a local, Arn "Iron" Munro, who possesed superhuman abilities. Returning with Dyna-Mite to the Squadron's Headquarters, as the team was also being attacked by Axis America, Iron Munro aided the heroes, along with Helena Kosamtos, a ward of Johnny Quick, who became the magically enhansed heroine known as Fury. Saving the day was another youthful hero arriving from Canada, Flying Fox. The four young heroes headed out to the West Coast to track down Axis America, only to meet up with two more young heroes, Neptune Perkins and Tsunami, a young nissei who had just recently left the Japanese Navy, hoping to aid her American friends.
After routing the forces of Axis America, the five young heroes were invited to join the All-Star Squadron on a probationary basis, as a sort of Public Relations arm to the group, appeariing at bond rallys and such. They took the name of The Young All-Stars.
For several months, the group had several adventures, such as stopping the Nazi group called The Black Circle in gaining control of alien technology of Neptune Perkins' grandfather. They also aided another group of young metahumans collected by the Allied countries, known as The Young Allies, in keeping safe America's Atomic Weapons program.
After putting a stop to the overthrow of Rioguay by Arn's biological father and his army, the group was asorbed into the All-Star Squadron and disbanded.
Listing of Comic Book Appearances
Young All-Stars# 1-15 late April thru May '42
Young All-Stars Annual #1May 25, 1942
Young All-Stars #16-31 late May thru mid-June, 1942.
Powers: Bomb RM (30)
Equipment: Dyna-Rings (x2)
GD material strength
Before T.N.T.'s death, Dyna-Mite could only use his Bomb power when he touched his Dyna-Ring to the one worn by T.N.T. After his mentor's demise, Dyna-Mite's Bomb power can only be used when he touches his two Dyna-Rings together.
Talents: Martial Arts E, Stealth.
Contacts: All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars.
Alter Ego: Daniel Dunbar
Occupation: minor student thru 1944
Marital Status: single
Known Relatives: Charles and Judith Dunbar ( father and mother, presumed deceased )
Group Affiliation: All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars, "Old Justice"
Base of Operations: Washington D.C., later New York City
Current Status: retired
Height: 5'5" (later 5'11") Weight: 127 lbs. (later 165 lbs.)
Eye Color: blue Hair Color: red ( later grey )
First Appearance: Star-Spangled Comics# 7, April, 1942.
History: The only child of Charles and Judith Dunbar, young Danny was a lonely boy who found friendship in his track coach and chemistry teacher, Tex Thomas. While Thomas was working on a secret chemical compound, he and Danny found that they were asorbing certain properties from the chemicals, and when treated with a slight electical contact, found that the duo had aquired super-powers.
Thomas and Dunbar decided to use the abilities to fight crime and a short time before the US entry into World War II adventured as TNT and Dyna-Mite. They were invited to join the wartime conglomerate of mystery-men known as The All-Star Squadron and on one of those missions for the group, while investigating suspected spy activiites near Boulder, CO, TNT was killed by Nazi spies.
Fearing that his short career as a mystery-man was over, Dyna-Mite first joined up with several other young heroes that banded together during that case and formed the All-Star Squadron sub-group known as The Young All-Stars. Dyna-Mite found that he could now activate the concussive electrical blasts on his own, and continued on with his career. His parents found out about his secret identity in mid-1942, but it is unknown what happened after that revelation.
About two years ago, however, along with other former "sidekicks" of World War II heroes, he formed the advocacy group known as "Old Justice," hoping to control and restrict younger meta-humans under governmental controls.
Chronological Listing of Comic Book Appearances
World's Finest Comics# 5
Star-Spangled Comics(v1)# 7-8
All-Star Squadron# 31-32February 22-23, '42
SSC# 9-23
All-Star Squadron# 60 April 15, '42 thru May 5, '42
Young All-Stars# 7-8
Young All-Stars# 9-11 May 12-15, '42
Young All-Stars# 12-14 May 20, '42
Young All-Stars Annual# 1 May 23, '42
Young All-Stars# 15
Young All-Stars# 16-19 thru early June '42
Young All-Stars# 21-25 June 10-11, '42
Young All-Stars# 30-31 June '42
Superman Family#No longer in continuity
Super-Friends# 12 No longer in continuity
The Golden Age# 1-4 not in continuity
Young Justice# 16
Powers: Magic Rituals
Flying Fox has memorized several magic rituals, which allows him to mimic the following powers at RM rank:
Imitation, Linguistics, Fire Generation, Illusion Casting, Invisibility.
The rituals involve the use of a pouch containing mystical herbs and powders. As long as he is free to move about, he may use any of these rituals as though he possessed these powers without having to make a separate Occult skill roll.
Equipment: Magical Cloak
RM material strength
Flight RM
Talents: Acrobatics, Medicine, Tracking, Stealh, Occult.
Contacts: Quontauka Tribe, All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars.
Alter Ego: none
Occupation: apprentice shaman, adventurer
Marital Status: single through 1942
Known Relatives: unnamed father (deceased), (grandfather, presumably deceased), Arak (possible ancestor)
Group Affiliation: Young All-Stars, All-Star Squadron
Base of Operations: New York, NY
Current Status: unknown
Height: 5'10" Weight: 128 lbs
Eye Color: brown Hair Color: black
First Appearance: Young All-Stars# 1, 1986.
History: Flying Fox was the son and heir of the chief of a hidden tribe of Indians living in northern Canada. For many years the tribe avoided contact with the white man's civilization.
During World War II the Nazis learned about the tribe. Armed Nazis came ashore in Northern Canada from a U-Boat to attempt to get the tribe to engage in guerilla warfare against the Canadian government. When the tribe's shaman refused to fight against the Canadian government, the Nazi commander had his men shoot the tribe's chief dead.
The chief's son, who at that time was known by a different name than "flying fox", was grief-stricken over the murder of his father. The shaman directed the youth to go to a lost cavern to obtain the cape and cowl of the magical flying fox. The shaman permanently painted the emblem of the flying fox onto the chest of the chief's son, who was renamed Flying Fox. The youth also received training in the use of his new magical powers from the shaman. Flying Fox was sent by the shaman and the tribe to the United States to help in the war effort against Nazi Germany.
The 19 year old Flying Fox arrived in New York in April 1942 and, along with other new young super-heroes, helped the All-Star Squadron defeat Axis Amerika.
On President Franklin Roosevelt's request, Flying Fox joined six other young members of the All-Star Squadron on a cross-country tour to encourage the buying of War Bonds (these seven heroes were nicknamed the "Young All-Stars"). His ultimate fate is, however, unknown.
Listing of Comic Book Appearances
Young All-Stars# 1-..
Young All-Stars Annual #1/1
Young All-Stars #..-..
Powers: Hyper-Leaping SH-Y (2 areas)
Hyper-Running RM 6 areas per round; 93 mph.
Equipment: Battle Armor
IN (40) body armor
When the Fury's Serious Rage is triggered, she becomes the being known as the Blood Avenger. She gains the Flight and Heat Vision powers at RM rank, and her physical stats are greatly increased. However, the Blood Avenger also has a Catastrophic Irrational Hatred of men and will go on a rampage any time she manages to break from the Fury's control. Fury was cured of this condition in May, 1942.
THE BLOOD AVENGER
F- IN (40)
A- AM (50)
S- UN (100)
E- MN (75)
R- EX (20)
I- GD (10)
P- EX (20)
H- 265
K- 50
R- TY
P- 20
After being cured of the Blood Avenger, Fury's stats are as follows:
F- RM (30)
A- IN (40)
S- IN (40)
E- IN (40)
R- EX (20)
I- GD (10)
P- EX (20)
H- 150
K- 50
R- TY
P- 20
She also retains the Hyper-Leaping and Hyper-Running powers at their previous ranks.
Contacts: All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars.
Alter Ego: Helana Kosmatos
Occupation: student
Marital Status: single?
Known Relatives: (mother, deceased), Michael Kosmatos (brother, deceased), George and Rose Kosmatos (aunt and uncle, probably deceased), Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor (daughter), Hector Hall (son-in-law, deceased), Daniel Hall (grandson, transmorgified)
Group Affiliation: Young All-Stars, All-Star Squadron
Base of Operations: New York City, later mobile
Current Status: retired
Height: 5'6" Weight: 116 lbs.
Eye Color: blueHair Color: blonde
First Appearance: Secret Origins# 12, 1986.
History: Helena Kosmatos was a young Greek whose father was killed in 1940 by Italian fascists who had invaded Greece. The Germans invaded Greece in the following year.
One evening of 1941 in her home in Athens, 15-year-old Helena angrily accused her brother Michael of collaborating first with the Italians and then with the Germans. When Helena produced evidence supporting her charges, her distraught mother suffered a fatal heart attack. Helena accused Michael of causing their mother's death, and he fled.
Helena went after him but was herself pursued by German soldiers. She ran to the Areopagus (the hill of Ares) and there stamped her foot in rage while cursing her brother. By doing so, Helena unwittingly called upon the three Furies of ancient myths, deities who mercilessly avenged crimes.
An earth tremor caused Helena to fall down a crevice into a cavern where she met the Kindly Ones. One of them, Tisiphone the Blood Avenger, asked Helena if she wanted to kill her brother. When Helena said yes and that she would pay any price to avenge her mother's death, Tisiphone touched Helena on the right shoulder with her scythe, endowing her with some of Tisiphone's own power.
Helena found herself back on the hill, possessing the armor and super-powers of the Fury. As Fury she overcame the Nazi soldiers who had pursued her ; then, transformed into an incarnation of Tisiphone the Blood Avenger, she found Michael piloting a boat carrying Nazi agents and killed him.
Back in her normal form, Helena drifted in the Aegean sea until she was rescued by Johnny Chambers, who later joined the All-Star Squadron as Johnny Quick. He took her to America, where she went to live with her uncle and aunt in Miami.
At first Helena thought she had dreamed her meeting with the Furies and her transformations. But she became Fury again in April 1942 and helped the All-Star Squadron battle Axis Amerika. Now aware that she had superpowers, Helena joined the Squadron as one of the new "Young All-Stars". It is known that her meeting with Hippolyta (the "mother" of Wonder Woman II), during he two years Hippolyta spent in the 1940s as Wonder Woman I, had a strong impact on Helena, who almost considered Hippolyta her mother.
Helena later married and gave birth to a daughter, named Hippolyta after the Amazon whom Helena respected so much but raised by a wealthy family, the Trevor. Hippolyta Trevor became the second Fury (who herself became the mother to the current Dream Lord). However, loosing her virginity meant the loss of Helena's powers, and her retirement. Things did not go too well for her : Hippolyta disappeared until recently, she was separated from her daughter for years, and the later died under highly tragic circumstances involving the Furies, which also led to the loss of her son (Helena's grandson), who left the realms of mortals.
Helena was again full of rage, and the Furies again responded, granting her new powers. Her rage was directed at Wonder Woman II, whom she considered to have stolen her "mother" (Hippolyta) and caused the loss of her daughter. After having been calmed down, she was taken to Hippolyta on Paradise Island to be healed of all the mental and emotional damage done to her over the years.
Listing of Comic Book Appearances
Secret Origins #12 1941
Young All-Stars #1-..
Young All-Stars Annual #1/1
Young All-Stars #..-..
Wonder Woman: Our Worlds At War #1 flashback to 1948
Legends of the DC Universe #33-35
Wonder Woman #...-...
Powers: Hyper-Leaping SH-Z (5 areas)
Hyper-Running GD (4 areas, 65 mph)
Body Resistance GD (10)
Talents: Automobiles Repair/Tinkering.
Contacts: All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars.
Alter Ego: Arnold Raymond "Iron" Munro
Occupation: student until 1942, then adventurer; later US government agent
Marital Status: divorced
Known Relatives: Hugo Danner (biological father, deceased?), John Munro (father, deceased), Anna Blake Munro (Mother, presumed deceased), Abednego Danner (biological grandfather, deceased), Mathilda Danner (biological grandmother, deceased), Sandra Knight-Munro (ex-wife) and two other unnamed ex-wives
Group Affiliation: Young All-Stars, All-Star Squadron, Argent, Bureau for Meta-Human Affairs
Base of Operations: formerly New York City, later Mobile, now Florida
Current Status: semi-retired
Height: 5'10" (later 6'1") Weight: 162 lbs. (later 195 lbs.)
Eye Color: blue Hair Color: black with white streak, now mostly silver with black highlights
First Appearance: Young All-Stars# 1, May, 1986.
History:Originally, Arn "Iron" Munro (Iron was his middle school baseball nickname), knew he was faster and stronger than any three of his classmates combined. Growing up in Indian Creek, Colorado, he was ready to leave the small town behind and seek his fortune in the world when during a date in May of 1942, he aided the young hero Dyna-Mite against some Nazi sabatours and Gurda, the Valkyrie. Stretching his abilities to their limits, Arn found that even small arms fire could not harm him and he could leap nearly an eighth of a mile. Unable to save Dyna-Mite's partner, Arn accompanied him back to New York and found himself united along with the All-Star Squadron against Axis America and fought Ubermench, who had similar powers and abilities to his own.
Wanting to join the Army, but unable to since he was only 17, Arn took up with several other young heroes in the (mostly) Public Relations oriented group The Young All-Stars. Arn resisted wearing a "super-hero" costume (except for a brief time), and the group was later folded into the Squadron as a whole.
Arn found out the reasons for his superior abilities after reading the diaries prepared by his true father, Hugo Danner. Danner's own father created a series of chemical additives that were administered to him in vitro, and after Hugo grew up, he roamed the world, eventally faking his death and returning to Indian Creek to father Arn with his highschool sweetheart, Anna Blake. Anna was married to John Munro at the time and kept the brief liason from him. Leaving for the jungles of South America to create a race of supermen like himself, the now insane Hugo Danner and his "Sons of the Dawn" were destroyed by Arn and the All-Star Squadron.
Arn's activities from 1942 through the late 1950's are unknown, but he later joined the US government's secret Task Force X's Argent division, teaming for a time with The Phantom Lady, marrying her and fathering a child that was stolen while still in its mother's womb by Baron Blitzkrieg, a former Nazi super-soldier now working for the USSR. Arn lost contact with Sandra Knight and has been searching for her since that time. The group Argent also went underground several years later, hindering Arn's search efforts.
Arn continued to work for the US government for a time, but he is now mostly retired, and he has been married and divorced at least two other times.
Chronological Listing of Comic Book Appearances
Young All-Stars# 1- from May 1, '42 to YAS# -
Powers: Communicate with Animals (dolphins and whales only)
Water Freedom (Neptune can not breath underwater but can stay below for seven minutes before needing to surface for air)
Neptune Perkins suffered from a birth defect which required him to be immersed in salt water for long periods of time. He aquired/developed the ability to spend long periods underwater without surfacing for air, and swimming at great speeds. He was a very good combatant underwater. His strength and endurance are greater than an average human. His hands and feet are webbed to enhance his swimming abilites. He wears a vest, developed by his grandfather, that allows him to spend more time out of the water.
Equipment: Sea Suit
RM material strength
The Sea Suit circulates sea water around Neptune's body, allowing him to remain out of the ocean for up to 24 hours at a time.
Talents: Underwater Combat, Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Writer, Water Vehicles, Pacific Ocean knowledge, Marine Life.
Contacts: All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars.
Alter Ego: none
Occupation: Oceanographer, Author, United States Senator
Marital Status: seperated
Known Relatives: Arthur Gordon Pym (grandfather, deceased), unnamed grandmother (deceased), Ross Perkins (father, deceased), Meriam Perkins (mother, deceased), Miya Shimata Perkins (wife, seperated), Deborah Perkins (daughter)
Group Affiliation: Young All-Stars, All-Star Squadron, United States Senate
Base of Operations: coastal areas of the US, later Hawaii and Washington DC
Current Status: retired
Height: 6' Weight: 187 lbs.
Eye Color: blue Hair Color: black, now with grey streaks
First Appearance: Flash Comics# 66, 1945.
History: Neptune Perkins is the grandson of Arthur Gordon Pym, the legendary Captain Nemo. His mutant powers are the result of his having been conceived in the presence of the power of "the Vril," an artifact created by a race of aliens known as the Dyzan.
Listing of Comic Book Appearances
All-Star Squadron #33-35
Young All-Stars #..-..
Young All-Stars Annual #1/1
YAS #..-..
Flash Comics #66
Aquaman(v3) #..-.., ..-..
Young Justice #16
Equipment: Wirepoon
EX material strength
EX edged damage
fires a sharp barb attached to a swing line 3 areas long
Talents: Acrobatics, Detective, Martial Arts E, Thief.
Contacts: The Sandman, All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars.
Alter Ego: Sanderson Hawkins
Occupation: adventurer
Marital Status: single
Known Relatives: Dian Belmont (aunt, deceased), Wesley Dodds (guardian, deceased)
Group Affiliation: All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars, Justice Society of America
Base of Operations: New York City, NY
Current Status: active
Height: 5'6", later 6'1" Weight: 145 lbs., later 195 lbs.
Eye Color: blue Hair Color: blonde
First Appearance: Adventure Comics# 69, September, 1941.
History:He had heard the stories, but when he read the comic books, young Sandy Hawkins knew where his destiny lie. He was even named the same as The Sandman's partner in the comic book! Left mostly unsupervised by his ailing mother, thirteen year old Sandy created a costume that was very similar to the one from the comic book and took to patroling his neighborhood by night. After aiding The "real" Sandman on a case, Sandy found out that his mother was unable to take care of him any longer, and he was to live with her aunt, Dian Belmont. Dian, the love of Wes Dodd's life, accidently revealed Wes' identity as the Sandman to young Sanderson, and Sandy begged Wes to become his partner in real life.
Chronological Listing of Comic Book Appearances
Adventure Comics(v1)# 69-76
World's Finest Comics# 6
All-Star Squadron# 31-31 Febraury 22-23, '41
Adventure# 77-79
World's Finest# 7
All-Star Squadron# 64 March 31, '42
All-Star Squadron# 51-60 thru April 15, '42
Adventure# 80
Young All-Stars# 2-7, 9, 14 May 2-20, '42
Young All-Stars Annual# 1 May 23, '42
Young All-Stars# 15
Adventure# 81-82
All-Star Comics(v1)# 14/Young All-Stars# 27 June '42
Adventure# 83-84
All-Star# 15/Starman(v2)# 69
Adventure# 85
All-Star# 16
Adventure# 86
All-Star# 17
Detective Comics# 76
Adventure# 87-89
All-Star# 19
Adventure# 90-96
All-Star Comics(v2)# 1 early February, '45
Star-Spangled Comics(v2)# 1
All-Star Comics(v2)# 2 late February, '45
Justice League(v1)# 113
DC Comics Presents# 47
Last Days of the Justice Society# 1 (behind the scenes)
JSA Secret Files and Origins# 1
JSA# 1-..
Martian Manhunter# ..-..
JSA# ..-..
Equipment: Crossbow Pistol
EX edged damage; 4 area range
Tigress has also at times used a variety of bolos and nets.
Talents: Acrobatics, Martial Arts A, E, Detective, Gadgetry, Tracking, Crossbows, Thief, Vehicles.
Contacts: New York City streets, All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars.
Alter Ego: Paula Brooks (later Paula Brooks-Crock)
Occupation: Adventurer, later criminal
Marital Status: married
Known Relatives: Lawrence "Crusher" Crock (husband), Artemis Crock (daughter)
Group Affiliation: Young All-Stars (affiliate members), Injustice Gang of the World
Base of Operations: mobile
Current Status: semi-active
Height: 5'6" Weight: 119 lbs. (later 130 lbs.)
Eye Color: green Hair Color: black (later streaked with grey)
First Appearance: Young All-Stars# 6, November, 1987.
History: Bored college student Paula Brooks acted on one of her infatuations, with famous big game hunter Paul Kirk. Studying every facet of his life and trailing him on some of his adventures as Manhunter, Paula decided to herself become a "hunter of men". Training with her Japanese gardner and studying a variety of weapons, she designed a large collapsable crossbow and decided to join up with Kirk and stow away on a mission with the Young All-Stars to prove her worth not only to him, but to join the group.
Her firtatious ways and nearly sadistic fighting style caused some friction in the group, she accompanied them on a mission to protect Allied atomic scientists in June, 1942. During a battle, she was killed, only to be resurrected by Gurda, a Valkyrie. The ressurection brought forth a darker side to her personality, splitting her away from her heroic career, into a downward spiral that, after a brief attempt at redemption directed by Paul Kirk, in the late 1940's began her criminal career, hunting down heroes and focusing on Wildcat in particular, and renaming herself The Huntress.
After the heroes had retired in the early 1950's, and she had spent several years in prison, The Huntress met and fell in love with fellow criminal The Sportsmaster. In a competitive spirit, in the mid-1960's the two drew out of retirement Starman and Black Canary and Wildcat for a while. The two of them produced a daughter, Artemis, who would later follow in her mother's footsteps and take the name Tigress.
As advancing age slowed her down, The Huntress went into semi-retirement, coming out recently as a coach of the villain-influenced Olympic team from the island nation of Zandia.
Listing of Comic Book Appearances
Young All-Stars# 6-..
Young All-Stars Annual #1/1
Young All-Stars #6-9, 11-15
Young All-Stars Annual #1/1
YAS #16-26
Thrilling Comics(v2)# 1
All-Star Comics(v2) #2
Sensation Comics #68-69, 71, 73, 75-76
All-Star Comics #41
DC 100 Page Super-Spectacular #6
Brave and Bold #62
Justice League(v1) #123-124 No longer in continuity
DC Special Series #10
All-Star Comics #72-73
Crisis on Infinite Earths #9-10
Infinity Inc #34
Young Justice #..
Powers: Hyper-Swimming AM (8 areas)
Water Freedom
Water Breathing
Water Control MN
Talents: Thief.
Contacts: All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars.
Alter Ego: Miya Shimada Perkins
Occupation: Oceanograpgher
Marital Status: recently seperated
Known Relatives: Neptune Perkins (estranged husband), Deborah Perkins (daughter), (father, presumed deceased), (mother, presumed deceased), (brothers), (sisters)
Group Affiliation: Imperial Japanese Navy, Young All-Stars, All-Star Squadron
Base of Operations: mobile, later Hawaii and Washington DC
Current Status: retired
Height: 5'6" Weight: 121 lbs.
Eye Color: brown Hair Color: black
First Appearance: All-Star Squadron# 33
History: Miya Shimada was born in the United States of Japanese immigrant parents, and sent back to Japan for her formal education, as was the custom among many Japanese-Americans before World War II. While there, she was taken under the wing of a group of Japanese scientists, who changed her physiology trying to create an ultimate Japanese warrior.
After the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Miya, now codenamed "Tsunami" (Japanese for "great wave"), used her abilites to aid in the attack on the American mainland in February, 1942. Shown the error of her ways by another aquatic hero Neptune Perkins, she left the Japanese Imperial Navy and remained at first neutral, but then discovering that her family had been interred at a concentration camp, joined with the other young members of the Young All-Stars to change the belief that ALL Japanese-Americans were spies and sabateurs.
Battling the predudice within and without, Tsunami aided the Allied war effort at least until mid-1942. It was revealed that later, she wed her friend Neptune Perkins.
Until recently, she believed that Neptune Perkins was the father of their daughter, Deborah, but it was discovered that the biological father was Rhombus, a mystical enemy from earlier in their careers. The Perkins split up over this discovery.
Listing of Comic Book Appearances
All-Star Squadron # 33-35, 42-43
Young All-Stars # 1-14
Young All-Stars Annual #1/1
YAS #15-19, 21-23, 26-27
Aquaman(v5) #39 (flashback)
Aquaman(v5) #23-25, 34, 38-40
