The Biggest Of Little Giants

Worth Carnahan published a few anthology comics back in 1940, one of which was titled O.K. Comics, so you know they weren't overselling themselves when they flat out admitted to their own mediocrity. For their first issue, they premiered the strange lad designated "Little Giant". Professor Rednow tests a new serum developed to make people into physical giants on a young boy. The serum doesn't increase his size, but it does grant him give super-strength. Rednow also creates a special suit that allows the boy to leap tall buildings, as well as a special body paint called Impurvogen which makes anyone coated with it invulnerable. Whether this Impurvogen still works after the test subject takes a bath is uncertain, which makes you wonder whether or not if the poor dope is immune to soap as well, meaning he might be invulnerable but totally incapable of washing off any body odor. A few weeks later, Rednow and the unnamed boy go to New York so they can rendezvous with the Prof's old college chum, Commissioner Waters, and showcase the results of his human experiments. The boy is now referred to as Rednow's "son", so we don't know if Rednow adopted the kid he named Rusty during the missing time skip, although the narration now refers to the boy as Little Giant. At the same time that the Rednow family arrives, a gangster named Butch being transferred to the infamous Sing-Sing prison breaks free from his plain-clothes officer and takes Little Giant hostage. Butch didn't know what he was getting into when the boy pushes him away. The gangster tries escaping on a subway train, but Little Giant chases it down and carries Butch over to the police all while the superboy is wearing his bright red anti-gravity getup. Rusty and Rednow jump away like Super Mario and later meetup with the police who deputize the two of them to fight ordinary criminals. There was another tale of Little Giant after this where he saves a young girl from getting run over in traffic, but you would think the story would continue more focused on Professor Rednow continuing his godless science studies into making the perfect superhuman which could lead to a jolly little eugenics war. This isn't the same as Captain America's origin where the creator of the super-soldier serum gets shot after his first successful experiment and there was no way to replicate the formula. Here, the Übermensch maker is still alive and could create an entire society of super-people instead of limiting himself to just a single boy in scarlet spandex.