(Star Spangled Comics I #1) - Pat as taking Sylvester for a drive when they witnessed a giant robot robbing the Whitmore Savings Bank. They changed into their mystery-men identities and pursued the robot in the star-rocket racer. They prevented the automaton from stepping on a civilian car, but when the Kid leapt on the robot it grasped him and tossed him into the air, but luckily the Kid landed in a lake and was unharmed. The duo returned home, where a group of the world's foremost psychologists were present to study Sylvester's young genius. He answered all their questions calmly, but insulted Pof. James Stanton, who asked him if his mental talents were inherited or acquired. Sylvester told him he should go back to school if he didn't know the answer to such a basic question. Stanton transformed into his criminal identity of Dr. Weerd, the mastermind behind the giant robot, and planned on kidnapping Sylvester for his slight. When the Star-Spangled Kid emerged from his house Weerd decided he'd teach him to interfere in his criminal plans and kidnapped him. Once at his hq, he locked the Kid in a room with his robot, and ordered the machine to kill him. Stripesy followed the Kid, and helped him escape, but the robot went on a rampage through the city. The Kid whipped up a potion that destroyed the robot's inner mechanisms. Weerd tried to shoot the Kid, but Stripesy stopped him. The heroes pursued him, but he was able to duck out of sight, and transformed back into Stanton, telling the duo Weerd had locked him in a closet.

(Star Spangled Comics I #2) - The Star-Spangled Kid & Stripesy 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 bundmen, 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) - The Star-Spangled Kid and Stripsey'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 #3) - The Kid and Stripesy traveled to Germany in the star-rocket-racer in its plane configuration. The Kid explained to his sidekick that German scientist Von Getz had been persecuted and imprisoned by Hitler, and he intended to free him. Stripesy let him know he'd always do whatever it took to help out a good man in trouble, and the Kid admired his nobility. German stukas tried to shoot them from the sky, and when they landed they were immediately on the run, but they were aided by the Underground Freedom Party, who opposed the Nazis. The party led them to Kettering, Hitler's astrologer who convinced him to toss Getz in a concentration camp. The duo found Kettering's diary, which contained valuable information, and by messing up his star-charts they tricked him into telling Hitler he was doomed, earning him a stay in a concentration camp. The heroes went to Leitrau, the camp where Getz was being kept, and busted him out in a dramatic rescue before giving him over to the Freedom Party, who they trusted to help him leave the country. Kettering's diary revealed that high-ranking Nazi Rudolf Hess was about to be purged, so they found him, showed him the diary, and offered to get him out of Germany if he spilled his guts to the English to help defeat Germany. He agreed, so the heroes flew him off in the racer and returned to America.

(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 Stripsey 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.

(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 oiff 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 up, 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 dopwn-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> Stripesy 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.

(JLA #40) - S.T.R.I.P.E. was among the legion of heroes summoned by the JLA to quell worldwide outbreaks of warfare that were incited by Mageddon. He saved lives in Venice Beach, where Japanese and Canadian armies were battling each other.

(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #1) - At Star-Spangled Kid’s insistence S.T.R.I.P.E. and the JSA attended Young Justice’s Justice for All rally in Washington, as did Old Justice, the Titans and JLA. It was interrupted by Klarion, who magically de-aged S.T.R.I.P.E. and most of the heroes into children. Doiby Dickles pulled out an extraterrestrial aging gun to return the heroes to their proper age, but another of Klarion’s spells intercepted his shot. The result was that the younger heroes present were aged to adulthood, but the other heroes remained children.

(Sins of Youth Secret Files #1, Sins of Youth: JLA, Jr. #1) - The de-aged S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA had a dispute with the de-aged JLA that resulted in them brawling for hours. Once they made up the JSA and Doiby Dickles went aboard the Steel Eagle so they could travel to Myrg so Doiby could find another aging gun to reverse Klarion's spell.

(Sins of Youth: Starwoman and the JSA (Junior Society) #1) - S.T.R.I.P.E., Doiby and the JSA battled Prince Marieb on Myrg, retrieved an aging gun, and returned to Earth.

(Young Justice: Sins of Youth #2) - Doiby tried using his new raygun on S.T.R.I.P.E. and the other heroes affected by Klarion’s spell but it had no effect. Since the heroes’ ages were skewed by a combination of magic and science, they would need Klarion’s cooperation to undo the transformation. The heroes attacked Agenda’s headquarters in Alaska, where Superboy, Superman, Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman were being held hostage. The hq was defended by the Junior Injustice Society, but the heroes prevailed, forced the Agenda to flee, and freed the prisoners. They then forced Klarion to team with Doiby and return everyone to their proper age.

(JSA: Our Worlds at War #1) - During the Imperiex War S.T.R.I.P.E., the JSA and the JSA reserves were given a mission by President Luthor to disrupt Imperiex’s link to his ship’s power supply. The JSA not only cut off Imperiex from his power, but they managed to blow up his ship as well.

(Superman: The Man of Steel #115) - The Alien Alliance transported Pat Dugan and every last citizen of Metropolis by zeta-beams to the orbiting space ark. It was an evacuation necessary because Metropolis would be a staging ground against Imperiex, who'd destroyed a number of alien worlds and was preparing to blow up Earth.

(Day of Judgment #1) - S.T.R.I.P.E., Star-Spangled Kid, Captain Marvel and CM3 battled Solomon Grundy and a band of zombies that had been brought back from the dead when Asmodel / Spectre unleashed Hell on Earth.

(Day of Judgment #2, 3, 5) - S.T.R.I.P.E. joined a number of heroes in the fight against the army of demons Asmodel released from Hell. The Sentinels of Magic sent S.T.R.I.P.E., Captain Marvel and Starfire into orbit to retrieve the Spear of Victory to defeat Asmodel with. The heroes fought their way past astronauts that Asmodel raised from the dead, then freed the Spear from a piece of space-junk. The Spear corrupted Starfire, and S.T.R.I.P.E. and Captain Marvel were forced to knock her out. Back on Earth they used the Spear to injure Asmodel, allowing Green Lantern Hal Jordan to become the Spectre's new host.

(JSA #37) - S.T.R.I.P.E. was among the crowd of heroes that attended Johnny Thunder’s funeral.

(JSA #49-51) - S.T.R.I.P.E. was called in as a JSA reservist to battle Obsidian, who’d possessed hundreds of people in L.A. and made them into an army of shadow-soldiers. Obsidian was defeated when Green Lantern Alan Scott stripped him of his powers. S.T.R.I.P.E. aided the JSA in defeating Obsidian’s ally Mordru.

(JSA #67) - S.T.R.I.P.E., Stargirl and Wildcat questioned Mirror Master about Sue Dibny’s death, and learned the Rogues had nothing to do with it.

(JSA #68, 72) - S.T.R.I.P.E. and his family were executed by the Red Morgue, who were following orders from Per Degaton. In retaliation Stargirl and the JSA traveled back in time and defeated Per Degaton. Stargirl wiped out the Morgue. Stargirl found that Degaton’s defeat erased the assassination of her family from the timestream, and she embraced her loved ones.

(JSA #81) - Pat and his son Mike worked on the S.T.R.I.P.E. suit, and despite Mike’s arguments Pat told him he still wasn’t ready to go on superhero missions. S.T.R.I.P.E., Stargirl and the JSA were called to Philadelphia when Liberty Belle lost control over her powers after an attack by the Society. Stargirl showed her that her daughter Jesse was there, and was worried about her mother. This allowed Belle to focus and regain the use of her powers. Shae informed Stargirl of the death of her biological father Sam Kurtis and she burst into tears. She couldn’t understand why she still cared for a criminal who’d only done her wrong, but STRIPE told her it was because she was a good daughter.

(Teen Titans III #32) - Superboy Prime confronted Superboy because he wanted to take his place, and was willing to kill him to do it. S.T.R.I.P.E. and the JSA and the Teen Titans were called in to combat Prime. There were casualties, but Flash Jay Garrick, Flash and Kid Flash took Prime out of action by running him into the Speed Force.

(52 / WWIII Part Four: United We Stand #1) <Week 50, Day 7> Black Adam arrived in China, and prepared to destroy the entire country. He defeated China's superhero team the Great Ten before China allowed S.T.R.I.P.E. and the American superhero community to square off against him. Black Adam was a god with nothing left to lose, and each punch he threw was intended to kill. His savagery was winning the day until Martian Manhunter reappeared and flooded his brain with his own loss, the death of the entire Martian species. Black Adam was distracted long enough for Captain Marvel to hurl a Shazam bolt at him. Theo Adam was powerless, and left with amnesia. He staggered away unnoticed from the end of WWIII.