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… like Miss Victory and Yankee Doodle Jones, and more. But there's always room for one more, the publishers of Speed Comics (where the main star was Shock Gibson) figured.

It was during that period, that Captain Freedom debuted in Speed's 13th issue (May, 1941), the same one that also launched Pat Parker, War Nurse.

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By #16, Cap was the title's cover-featured star.

Captain Freedom was Don Wright, heroic newspaper publisher in his day job, who put on a costume when nobody was looking and fought America's enemies on the home front. Spies, saboteurs, black marketeers and the like were his antagonists.

Nobody suspected his secret identity — not even the four news delivery kids who assisted him as The Young Defenders. Their names seemed to be Lefty, Whitey, Slim, and Joanie — but later, Whitey became "Beanie", and the name "Blackie" was occasionally used for one of them.

Anyway, except for Joanie, the token female, it was hard to tell which was whic