Dingbats of Danger Street

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The Dingbats of Danger Street are a gang of kids in DC Comics. They were created by Jack Kirby and bear some similarities to Kirby's other street gangs, the Newsboy Legion and the Yancy Street Gang.

They first appeared in 1st Issue Special #6 (Sept. 1975), written and pencilled by Kirby and inked by Mike Royer. This did not lead to a series, and was considered a failed experiment. Kirby drew two further issues which were not published.

The members of the gang were Good Looks (the leader), Krunch (the muscle) Non-Fat (a skinny kid with a hot dog, who may have been Afro-American, but if so the colorist wasn't told) and Bananas (who was crazy). In their 1st Issue Special story they (at least partly by accident) stopped the villains Jumpin' Jack and the Gasser with the help of Lieutenant Terry Mullins. Any suggestion that Mullins might become a Jim Harper character was cancelled when Non-Fat told him, "We wouldn't give a grown-up the right time! Grown-ups hate us – and we hate them!"

The Dingbats later reappeared in Adventures of Superman, one of a number of Kirby homages by Karl Kesel. They first appear in brief cameos, but are subsequently seen in full in Adventures #549. They are squatting in a disused theatre, which the Newsboy Legion claim was their hangout in the forties. Superman eventually calls in another kid gang, the incredibly rich Green Team (another failed First Issue Special creation created by Kirby's former partner Joe Simon), to pay for converting the theatre into a youth club.