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8. Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys

Look, the forties saw the creation of a LOT of comic book characters, alright? Not all of them could be winners. Every once in a while you get a dud.

Enter: Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys. In the city of, uh, Big City (I'd make a joke about how uncreative that is, but one of the most famous major comic book cities is literally called Metropolis, soooooooo) all was going well until gang leader Wolf Lupo came to town. As an aside, that's a rad name, 10 out of 10, would recommend.

Lupo's protection racket was so bad, Big City's Distract Attorney Dan Rogers found himself unable to do anything about it. Dan's son Tommy, however decided to be a masked vigilante alongside his best friend Tubby. I'm assuming that was his cruelly applied nickname and not his full legal name, but this is the forties DC Universe so really either could be true. The duo teamed up with another child, Toughy, and together they freed a pivotal witness against Lupo whom Lupo didn't kill for some reason.

Due to the color of their costumes and the general lack of creativity of the townsfolk, the trio became known as the Blue Boys, with their leader, Tommy, going by Little Boy Blue. It is not known whether or not he was as much of a friggin' crybaby as his nursery rhyme namesake.