Slugger

Slugger © Juke Box Productions AstroFacts Status: Retired Real Name: Ken Davis Earliest Appearance: late 1930s Affiliation: sidekick/partner to the All-American Base of Operations: Romeyn Falls/Astro City Personal Data InfoDump Appearances (in Publication Order): Wizard Presents: Kurt Busiek's Astro City #1/2 Astro City: Silver Agent #1 Event Timeline 1943     Current Time-Keeper Robs First National Bank. 1943     News broadcast Blackout Bandits Foiled by All-American and Slugger. Slugger Slugger the Junior Dynamo was a sidekick, partnering with the All-American. His "civilian" name was never revealed to the public at the time, but he was rumored to have been part of the Commando K project. History In 1943, alongside the All-American, he prevented a robbery attempt by the Time-Keeper. Speculations, Theories There is conflicting information about the All-American. One report has him being killed by a sniper's bullet in the Korean War. Elliot Mills states that the All-American, along with the Lamplighter, had just retired in 1959. One possibility is that Slugger took over the costume for several years after Appleton was killed. In 2004 Slugger's identity was still unknown, but in 2008 in a "non-canonical" source Kurt Busiek mentioned a name for Slugger...