Sylvester Pemberton
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Sylvester Pemberton, alternately known as The Star-Spangled Kid and Skyman is a fictional superhero in the DC Comics universe.
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[edit] Fictional character history
[edit] Star-Spangled Kid
The original Star-Spangled Kid was Sylvester Pemberton, a Golden Age character. He became the Star-Spangled Kid in order to battle Nazi spies and fifth columnists during World War II. He was unique in that he was a kid superhero who had an adult sidekick, Stripesy a.k.a. Pat Dugan. Both he and Dugan were superb acrobats along with having sufficient training in hand-to-hand combat. They devised a series of acrobatic maneuvers that allowed them to build upon one another's strengths, the Kid's agility and Dugan's strength. They also designed and built the Star Rocket Racer, a bubble-topped limousine with the functions of a rocket and helicopter.
The Kid and Stripesy were members of the Seven Soldiers of Victory as well as the All-Star Squadron. In 1948, Pemberton and Dugan were joined by Merry, the Girl of 1000 Gimmicks , eventually supplanting The Kid and Stripsey from their own feature. The Seven Soldiers were lost in time in the late 1940s and rescued decades later by the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America. Sylvester then joined the JSA, at which time a then-injured Starman Ted Knight loaned him his cosmic rod (it was later retconned that Starman wanted the young man to become his heir as neither of his sons expressed interest in carrying the mantle). Soon afterwards, the Kid refined the technology of the rod, devising a belt with similar powers such as energy projection, flight and matter transmutation. Eventually the Kid retired from superheroics to reclaim his inheritance, his father's business, from his corrupt nephew. In addition, he patched up his long since neglected relationship with Dugan.
[edit] Skyman
He eventually changed his name to Skyman and led the team Infinity Inc. During this period he was able to form a partnership with the city of Los Angeles to commission his team as for-hire protectors, and used his purchased studio property to revitalize its movie productions. He was later killed by Solomon Grundy under the control of the third Harlequin who had been working for the Dummy's Injustice Unlimited. Stripesy's stepdaughter Courtney Whitmore eventually took up the mantle of the Star-Spangled Kid, although she is now Stargirl after receiving the Cosmic Rod from Jack Knight. Pemberton later returned from an alternate timeline to the prime post-Crisis Earth to assist the JSA against Extant. During this adventure, he teamed up with Courtney.
[edit] 52
In the pages of 52, Lex Luthor bought the rights to Infinity Inc. from the Pemberton Estate and gave the codename Skyman to a new superhero. Apparently, the head of the estate at the time was Gimmix, Merry Pemberton's daughter. Since she was killed by the Sheeda in Seven Soldiers, the Pemberton Estate was up for grabs.
