Stuff the Chinatown Kid
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | (Jimmy) Action Comics #45 (February 1942) (Victor) Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #9 (April 2000) |
| Created by | Mort Weisinger Mort Meskin |
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| Alter ego | (I)Jimmy Leong (II) Victor Leong |
| Team affiliations | Seven Soldiers of Victory All-Star Squadron |
| Abilities | Both Jimmy and Victor were proficient in several martial arts, including Judo and Hopkido, as well as several kung-fu techniques. |
Stuff, the Chinatown Kid is a DC Comics fictional character, and sidekick to the original Vigilante. He first appeared in Action Comics #45 (February 1942).
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Jimmy Leong is the grandson of Lin Chou, leader of the White Lotus tong in New York's Chinatown. Jimmy assists the Vigilante when a Japanese spy known as the Head frames his grandfather for provoking a Tong war. Jimmy becomes the Vigilante's sidekick "Stuff, the Chinatown Kid."
After Jimmy is killed (see below), his younger brother Victor becomes the new Chinatown Kid. In contrast to his brother's Western attire, Victor wears traditional Chinese garb.
In 1949 the Vigilante, Victor and the other Seven Soldiers of Victory are thrown back into time; Victor ends up in ancient Greece, approximately 3,000 years in the past. The original Flash, Zatanna, and the Red Tornado go back in time to rescue him. They find Stuff under the influence of the sorceress Circe. After freeing him from her enchantments, they are returned to the 1980s by Johnny Thunder.[1] Now an adult, Victor assists the now-retired Greg Saunders (the Vigilante's alter ego) in running his chain of Western-themed restaurants. Saunders and Stuff annually invite Pat Dugan (Stripesy) and his family for Christmas, despite the Dugans' failure to take them up on their offer.
[edit] Death
Jimmy is deceased as of the present time, though there remains some dispute over who killed him. His murder has been credited to two separate killers: The Dummy killed him in World's Finest #246 (August-September 1977); and mobster Bugsy Siegel killed him in the mini-series Vigilante: City Lights, Prairie Justice (1995-1996).
With the death of Saunders in Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers megaseries, the only apparent survivors of the original Seven Soldiers of Victory are Stripesy, and the Shining Knight.
[edit] Appearances in other media
Stuff appears in the 1947 15-chapter serial The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the Old West. He is played by George Offerman, Jr. In this appearance, Stuff is a thirty-something Caucasian, rather than a teen-age Oriental.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Justice League #100-102 (August-September 1972).
