Dan the Dyna-Mite

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Dan the Dyna-Mite is a DC Comics superhero from the 1940s. He was the young sidekick to the character TNT, and was created by Mort Weisinger and Hal Sharp for DC Comics. TNT and Dyna-Mite made their debut in World's Finest Comics #5, and starred in Star-Spangled Comics #7-23.

[edit] Fictional character biography

Dan's secret identity was Daniel Dunbar. He was later in the All-Star Squadron and the Young All-Stars. He is was last seen as a member of the superhero protest group Old Justice. As with his mentor, he possessed a ring which controlled his powers, releasing them only when the two rings came into contact.

[edit] Dino-Mite Dan

Functional forgeries of the rings were later bought online by a superhero wannabe who called himself Dino-Mite Dan. He was killed with the rest of the short lived Seven Soldiers of Victory group introduced in Seven Soldiers #0.

[edit] Other versions

In the Elseworlds miniseries The Golden Age by James Robinson and Paul Smith, TNT is killed in an apparent accident, and Daniel Dunbar becomes very depressed. He subjects himself to an experiment (dropping an atomic bomb on him) which transforms him into the powerful Dynaman; however, it is revealed late in the miniseries that the Ultra-Humanite removed Dunbar's brain and replaced it with that of Adolf Hitler. Members of the Justice Society and All-Star Squadron unite to defeat Dynaman in a colossal battle in Washington, DC.