Where Robin or Kid Flash were junior partners to their headliner heroes, they at least had their own uniform and codename. In 1941, Holyoke Publishing started their own title for Batman ripoff Cat-Man featuring the non-masked hero known as The Deacon, a former burglar that disguised himself as a preacher to fight crime from an abandoned church. Dean Denton manages to hide out in the open, as does his sidekick Mickey Mathews who gets taken in by the Deacon after being chased by some gangsters. Mickey has no secret identity even though there weren't too many other bright-eyed blonde boys that were as chipper as him running around pre-WWII America, but he was fortunate enough to actually grow from a boy to a teenager during his 5-year run. When he wasn't being the Deacon's boy wonder, he meets up with Katie Conn at a summer camp run by Nazis, and his new girlfriend only happens to be Cat-Man's sidekick Kitten with her own superhero garb. The sidekicks form a pre-Teen Titans team dubbed the Little Leaders, even though Katie usually bashed baddies with Mickey in her regular clothes. Despite the fact that Mickey wasn't stuck in a prepubescent state for the duration of his comics career like most sidekicks, he still never bothered to come up with his own alias at least to make it easier for people to recognize Deacon in his street clothes.
Where Robin or Kid Flash were junior partners to their headliner heroes, they at least had their own uniform and codename. In 1941, Holyoke Publishing started their own title for Batman ripoff Cat-Man featuring the non-masked hero known as The Deacon, a former burglar that disguised himself as a preacher to fight crime from an abandoned church. Dean Denton manages to hide out in the open, as does his sidekick Mickey Mathews who gets taken in by the Deacon after being chased by some gangsters. Mickey has no secret identity even though there weren't too many other bright-eyed blonde boys that were as chipper as him running around pre-WWII America, but he was fortunate enough to actually grow from a boy to a teenager during his 5-year run. When he wasn't being the Deacon's boy wonder, he meets up with Katie Conn at a summer camp run by Nazis, and his new girlfriend only happens to be Cat-Man's sidekick Kitten with her own superhero garb. The sidekicks form a pre-Teen Titans team dubbed the Little Leaders, even though Katie usually bashed baddies with Mickey in her regular clothes. Despite the fact that Mickey wasn't stuck in a prepubescent state for the duration of his comics career like most sidekicks, he still never bothered to come up with his own alias at least to make it easier for people to recognize Deacon in his street clothes.
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