Black Dwarf Or Blue Monk

St. John Publications had plenty of original titles, but they did do reprints of existing characters from former comics publishers. Some of these were renamed like Lucky Coyne into Jinx Jordon, or Master Key into Rod Holmes, one however was extremely bizarre and that was the Blue Monk. Originally, the character was a short man conveniently named Shorty Wilson who was a former football player who led a crusade against crime fairly reminiscent of The Shadow but under the name of Black Dwarf in 1944 from Chesler Comics. Now how a person of his stature was able to get away with keeping a secret identity is a big question, especially since his outfit didn't cover his face at all, so unless there was a large population of short persons in his city then Black Dwarf didn't have a big crowd to hide in. Cut ahead to 1948, and St. John gave the Black Dwarf a fresh paint job and called him the Blue Monk, even though he was still a diminutive character. Originally, Black Dwarf had his own inner circle of former bad guys who helped him in his campaign including Gyro and Scorpion who were renamed Nitro and Dippy, plus his love interest Arsenic Gayne was Blue Monk's lady given the more notorious handle of Satana, although the weird thing is that both the Chesler and St. John versions had a guy in the crew called Human Fly which was usually a name other publishers used for a repackaged the Blue Beetle. Blue Monk never had his own comic and was featured in all three issues of St. John's Crime Reporter but then had two other appearances in the pages of Northwest Mounties and Western Bandit Trails which seems like a bizarre place to showcase a blue-clad inner-city superhero. If Blue Monk had just waited a few more decades, he could have been the Smurf Avenger.