(Star Spangled Comics I #2) - The Star-Spangled Kid & Stripsey saw the Ring of Rags, a homeless gang, kidnap a woman and bring her into the sewers. They pursued, and saved the woman, who told them she was Sue Rollins, and was out late in the park where she was kidnapped to meet her fiance Bob Fontaine. They witnessed her reunion with Bob in the park when they were interrupted by businessman Edmond Penton. He reminded Sue that he'd helped her dad out of financial straights and demanded that she marry him. The heroes didn't like to see a woman bullied, so they tied Penton up and played jump-rope using his body to humiliate him. Sue was kidnapped by the Ring of Rags again, and the Kid realized that their king was Penton in disguise. They thrashed the bums, and the lovers were freed to live their own life.

(Star Spangled Comics I #2) - The Star-Spangled Kid & Stripesy spied on a bund meeting and learned that the bundsmen planned to kidnap Rolf Chandler, leader of the anti-fascist movement. The shadowed the bundsmen, but were unable to prevent the kidnapping because Stripesy got to wrapped up in pounding his opponent. The drove off in the star-rocket racer, hanging the bundsman left behind from the car until he revealed the location of where Rolf was taken. They found the hideout, a cave filled with booby traps, and managed to save Rolf from being buried alive.

(Star Spangled Comics I #3) - Sylvester read a paper on goldfish pathology while his father wished he'd forget scientific tomfoolery and be more of a red-blooded American boy. Sylvester chuckled to himself, thinking of his adventurous life as the Star-Spangled Kid. The Star-Spangled Kid's nemesis Dr. Weerd escaped prison, and soon the newspapers were filled with reports of mysterious motorist suicides. The Kid and Stripesy suspected Weerd had a hand in the matter and investigated one of the recent deaths where a man drove off a cliff. The duo figured out that Dr. Weerd had created an illusion projector that lured motorists to their doom, making cliffs and other calamities look like normal parts of the road. After interrogating one of Weerd's goons they found his hideout in Stephen's Tower, where they confronted the villain. After a scuffle, they crashed the star-rocket-racer into his hideout, seemingly killing him. After the heroes left Weerd emerged from the rubble and promised revenge.

(Star Spangled Comics I #4) - The Kid and Stripesy caught up to the villainous Needle after he killed Morton Morrow, who refused to pay extortion money to him, but were unable to capture him. The Kid, as Sylvester Pemberton, offered the police his help as an amateur criminologist, but he was laughed off. He did learn that the police commissioner was holding a meeting about the Needle murders, so he and Stripesy managed to drop by and eavesdrop. They learned that Nicholas Murdock was the Needle's next target, but they couldn't prevent his death. Sylvester again offered the police his help, and uncovered the fact that all of needle's victims received mysterious packages in the mail before their death. The newspapers reported his findings, and Needle disliked his meddling. He killed his victims by sending them his midget henchman Reynauld in the mail, and it was he who killed them in their sleep. He sent Reynauld to Sylvester in the mail, but Sylvester survived the attempt on his life. The Kid and Stripesy caught up to the criminals, and when Reynauld tried to shoot them he missed and struck Needle with one of his own high-powered projectiles.

(Star Spangled Comics I #4) - Sylvester begrudgingly agreed to join his parents on a visit to D.A. Morton B. Randall. Randall revealed that a number of law enforcement officials had been killed, and he'd received a coffin at his house from Mr. Ghool that promised he'd be the next to die. Mr. Ghool and his gang arrived, and forced Randall to drink poison, but Sylvester and Pat changed into the American Avengers and forced Ghool to flee. They attended Randall's funeral, and discovered Ghool's hideout under the cemetery. he'd amassed a fortune grave-robbing, and when the law got involved he started killing off officials. he revealed that the poison he gave Randall put him in suspended animation, so the heroes defeated him and forced him to give Randall the antidote.

(Star Spangled Comics I #4) - Sylvester won a radio quiz show, and accepted his prize in his normal haughty and arrogant attitude. Dr. Weerd used the opportunity to debut his ray that turned precious metal into lead, destroying Sylvester’s winnings. Weerd made a radio broadcast threatening to destroy all of America’s wealth. The Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy went into action, discovering the tower where his ray emanated from, and after a fierce battle with the villain he was forced to flee. The American Avengers destroyed the tower, restoring the precious metals Weerd had devalued. Weerd cursed his opponents, but immediately set upon building his new invention, a flying buzz-saw. He piloted the buzz-saw on a destructive flight to the city, but the Kid flew his star-rocket racer into the skies and boarded Weerd. Weerd told him he’d walked into a trap, the buzz-saw was set for a course with a munitions plant, and the controls were electrified. He abandoned the buzz-saw, and mocked his foe, but the Kid used his silk leotard to shield himself from the electricity and safely land the buzz-saw.

(Leading Comics #1) -When criminal mastermind the Hand learned he was dying he broke out a number of criminals, and planned a once in a lifetime crime for each of them, but warned them they'd be opposed by their arch0-enemies, who he'd taunted to top them in the morning's paper. Green Arrow and Speedy, Crimson Avenger, Shining Knight, Vigilante, Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy all responded, taking the Hand's threat seriously. The heroes met in the Gotham City auditorium, where the Han broadcast a video informed them where their arch-enemies would be committing crimes. The mysterymen decided to take care of their own, and report to each other in a week on their progress. The Needle was given a lead on Claude Brighton, an inventor of a ray-gun that was staying in Panama City, The Needle avoided his enemies the Star=Spangled Kid and Stripesy, and forced Brighton to show him his lab where he had constructed the ray-gun. The Needle used the ray-gun to shake the Panama Canal to its foundations, reasoning that such a demonstration of power would send foreign bidders running. The American Avengers apprehended him, and sent him to jail. The rest of the villains failed, and the Hand decided to destroy the heroes himself to preserve his legacy. He contacted them via video, and gave them the address of his hideout, daring them to defeat him. Just then he got a call from his doctor that a new surgery could cure him. He realized he'd acted rashly, but his pride demanded he destroy his foes. The mysterymen made their way through all his booby-traps until they penetrated his sanctum. He aimed an electric beam at them, but Vigilante shot it down, electrifying him. The heroes realized the good they did teaming up, and decided to form the Seven Soldiers of Victory.

(Star Spangled Comics I #5) - Sylvester Pemberton met with professors from Southeastern University, including Professor Whipple, who wanted to test his intellect, and they left amazed by the boy genius. Moonglow, a new crime boss with a head made of moonbeams, wrecked havoc in the city, so the Kid and Stripesy investigated. After capturing a ar full of Moonglow's goons with the Star-Rocket Racer's mechanical claw they terrorized tem by flying over the city until they revealed the location of Moonglow's hideout. They made their way to the hideout, but Moonglow defeated them and tossed them from his office window, but they managed to avoid death. Whipple was actually Moonglow, he was transformed into a super-genius murderer whenever struck by moonbeams due to a foolish experiment. He was horrified by Moonglow's exploits, and phoned Pemberton for advice, but was transformed into Moonglow before he could blurt out his identity. Moonglow saw Pemberton snooping around Whipple's home, knowing something was amiss, and tracked the boy back home to kill him. The Kid and Stripesy defeated him, and after learning his true identity and story, they handed him over to the police and instructed them to keep him in a room with the shades drawn so he wouldn't see the moon. There was a hefty reward, but the heroes insisted the money be given to the wives and children of officers killed in the line of duty.

(Star Spangled Comics I #5) - Pat was driving the Pembertons over the Hi-Span Bridge when a ray struck it, and it began to crumble. Pat drove them to safety, they would have been goners if their limousine wasn't actually the Star-Rocket Racer. Other drivers were not so lucky, and the polie investigated Sylvester's father, because Pemberton Steel Mill provided the materials for the bridge's construction. Sylvester wanted to clear his father's name, and he voiced his suspicions to professor Stanton, who came b on the pretense of examining a genius' reflexes. Stanton changed into Dr. Weerd, and ordered his goons to kill Sylvester, because he didn't want him to uncover the fact that he'd devised a deterioration ray that detsroyed steel. Weerd's goons followed Sylvester's limo, but were shocked when they shook the crooks and changed into the American Avengers. The heroes engaged Weerd in an air battle when he flew around the city destroying steel structures. His hopes were to corner the market on the valuable metal. Weerd attacked the Pemberton Steel Mill, and when he left his plane the heroes engaged him in the remains of the mill. After a hair-raising battle they managed to defeat him, sending him to jail, and clearing Sylvester's dad of any wrongdoing.

(Star Spangled Comics I #5) - The Pembertons held a lawn fete for war orphans, and had the Star of Delhi, owned by Emil Vanderhopf, on display to attract a paying crowd. The needle escaped from ail and planned on stealing the Star, so he knocked out Vanderhopf, disguised himself as the philanthropist, and crashed the party. Whe arrived he decided to take revenge on Sylvester Pemberton for landing him in jail. He asked the Pembertons to have Sylvester give him a tour of their house, and when they were alone he knocked ut Sylvester, placed him in a bathtub, and ran the water so he'd drown. He switched the fake Star for the real one, but the icy water had revived Sylvester, who changed into his mysteryman identity, and unmasked "Emil." The Kid and Stripesy defeated the Needle, but a man in the crowd handed him a gun. Needle threatened the fete attendees if they didn't allow him to escape, but Mr. Haggerty, a detective assigned to the event, got the jump on Needle. The American Avengers deduced that Pierre Legetta, the curator of the Vanderhopf museum, had slipped the gun to Needle. he'd already stolen the real Star and made a fake, and hoped that if Needle escaped his plan would never be uncovered. The heroes sent the villains to ail. needle boasted that he'd killed the Pembertons' son, but when they rushed inside their house the Kid changed back to his civilian identity and assured his parents that he was fine. He claimed he needed a bath anyway, so when he revived he decided to cleanse himself. His father was incredulous as always.

(Star Spangled Comics I #6) - Pat took a shortcut driving Sylvester, and ended up in a slum, where urchins pelted their limo with tomatoes. Mobsters recognized Sylvester as a wealthy heir, and tried to kidnap him. One street lad named Breezy couldn’t stand bullies, and attacked the mobsters. Sylvester helped him drive them off, but during the action Breezy took a slug in the arm. Sylvester and his parents were so grateful for Breezy’s heroism that they took him into their mansion while he recovered. Professor Stanton visited the Pemberton’s to ask Sylvester his opinion of his latest scientific theories, and Sylvester tore them to shreds by pointing out several fallacies. Stanton was furious, but he made the most of the situation when he recognized Breezy as a lad who had a huge inheritance coming to him after the death of his wealthy relatives, and came up with a scheme to steal it from him. Stanton changed into Dr. Weerd, chloroformed Breezy, and framed him as a pick pocket. The judge assigned him to Marvin Dudley’s Sunnydale home for juveniles even though the Pemertons begged to have him released into their custody. Sylvester tried to investigate, but was not allowed on Sunnydale’s premises. He went into action as the Star-Spangled Kid, and he and Stripesy learned that Dudley was running a labor camp, and was trying to get Breezy to sign a legal document that would hand over his money to Dudley and Weerd. Weerd threatened to kill the American Avengers if Breezy didn’t sign, but Breezy used the pen to squirt ink in Weerd’s face, forcing him to flee. The heroes exposed Dudley’s malfeasance, and Sylvester’s father opened up a new home for wayward youths in its stead. The Pemberton’s adopted Breezy, and the plucky youth made it clear he thought Pat and Sylvester were really the American Avengers.

(Star Spangled Comics I #6) - The Kid and Stripesy got a short-wave radio signal from the French Freedom Party, warning them that Hitler had ordered Herr Hunt and his men to destroy the Statue of Liberty to demoralize the French resistance. The American Avengers foiled Hunt’s four men, who had a series of natural disaster devices in their employ meant to destroy the statue. Hunt was angry at his men’s failure, and flew a monstrous plane to the statue, and tried to rip it off the ground with a giant metal claw. The heroes plowed into his plane with the star-rocket racer, destroying it. The French resistance and U.S. military were both extremely grateful for the American Avengers heroism.

(Leading Comics #3) - Oliver Queen and Roy Harper were testing out a two-way radio when Roy saw men dressed as Alexander the Great, Nero, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and Napoleon robbing a national bank. The villains of history disabled Roy, and Khan made off with his two-way radio. Oliver came to Roy's aid after they disappeared, and from the two-way transmissions they realized the men weren't dressed as historical characters, they actually were them. They called a meeting of the Seven Soldiers, and the radio revealed that the men had been plucked from the past by mad scientist Dr. Doome, who was building a time machine to penetrate the future and rule the world. To complete it he needed several rare metals, and dispatched his partners to find them. The Soldiers split up to tackle each of the historical figures. Sylvester Pemberton snuck away from home by telling his father he was off to the North Woods to catalog mosses. His father shook his head, but thius enabled him to change into the Star-Spangled Kid, and go to Canada with Stripesy. Napoleon and Doome's goons arrived there first, derailing a gold shipment. The heroes went into action, but were knocked out, tied uyp, and tossed into a river. They recovered, and were rescued by some hobos, who helped them defeat Napoleon's flunkies. The Kid was grateful for the help of the down-and-out, and told them to give his reference to John Pemberton in the city, who'd find jobs for them. Napoleon fled, and after a night in an unfamiliar forest he was half-crazed. He was apprehended by asylum guards, and chose to use Doome's time scepter to return to his own time period. After all the villains were foiled the Soldiers tracked Doome to his headquarters, and he used his time machine to flee into the past. The heroes followed, finding themselves in 1200 BC during the Greek sack of Troy. Doome had convinced the legendary Ulysses that the Soldiers were enemies, and he sent his troops against them. When Ulysses saw how valiantly the Soldiers fought he knew they could not be villains, and ordered his troops back. Doome fled to the present, and Speedy had the presence of mind to take a time scepter with him, so the Soldiers returned to their own time. In desperation Doome tried to send himself into the future, but without the rare metals he still needed the machine exploded. The Soldiers were unsure if he made it, but knew that if he did there would be heroes like them in the future to take care of business.

(DCU Holiday Bash #2) - <December 24, 1944> The Kid and the Justice Society put on the Justice Society Canteen for troops home for the holidays. They helped foil nazi saboteurs that tried to blow up the canteen, thanks to the help of Ensign James Gordon.

(All-Star Comics I #58, 59) - The Kid felt out of place in the modern era, missing the 1950s. He went back to what he knew best, being a superhero. Ted Knight gave him the cosmic rod, and the Kid set up shop in Seattle. An earthquake created by Brain Wave hit the city, and he prevented loss of life. The JSA told Robin Brain Wave was behind the disaster, one of a series of catastrophes he orchestrated around the globe, and that the JSA had been assisted in preventing them by other youthful heroes like the Kid, who were newly dubbed the Super Squad. The JSA and Squad confronted Brain Wave aboard his space station, and learned that he'd sapped the willpower of the JSA that they displayed in averting the disasters to return will and youth to Per Degaton. When the JSA had the villains on the ropes, Brain Wave used his mental powers to send Earth on a collision course with the sun, demanding they submit or see the planet die. Power Girl sent Brain Wave's space station toward the sun, overheating it and causing the villain to pass out. The JSA decided to take in the Super Squad so they could learn from each other.

(All-Star Comics I #60, 61) - During a lazy afternoon at JSA hq Vulcan attacked the team. Vulcan once idolized the JSA, but blamed his inhuman condition on his attempts at heroics, and now wanted to kill his former idols. He set their hq ablaze and left. Power Girl met Xlk-Jnn, the alien that gave Vulcan his powers, and he informed her that he needed to treat Vulcan because he was now vulnerable to sunlight. The mad Vulcan killed the alien, but Star-Spangled Kid now knew his weakness and used a blast of cosmic rod starlight to destroy Vulcan.

(All-Star Squadron I #62) - Mid-Nite hooked Fate up to a machine that kept him alive using the cosmic power from Star-Spangled Kid's cosmic rod. Green Lantern and Flash went to Egypt to try and find a way to save Dr. Fate's life.