(Feature Comics 045, 1941)
It's a tale as old as time, by which I mean about a year: noncostumed adventurers adopting costumed identities to keep up with the oncoming juggernaut that is the Golden Age super-hero boom. In this case, it's Rusty Ryan and the other unusually muscular teens of the Boyville orphanage, who up until now were more of a high school sports type of bunch, dealing with the plague of unscrupulous gamblers betting on local hockey games and catching the occasional band of counterfeiters.
As the Boyville Brigadiers, Ryan and his cohorts are even more dull than what I just described. Rather than the Kirby-style boy gang dynamic of making every member their own distinct style of weirdo, the Brigadiers barely have names, let alone personalities. The only really interesting thing about them, in fact, is how weirdly similar their costumes are to Captain America's.
Still, they go on the list of patriotic heroes. Hooray!
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