#brian butler

[tzigone]

Anyone seen any Fawcett comics fanfic set mid-century?

Mid twentieth century, of course. I was curious as to if anyone had seen any Fawcett-verse (as opposed to DC verse) fanfic set in the past. I was thinking 1940s, as that's when the bulk of the comics were published, but 1950s or 1960s would be welcome, too.

[comiccoverarchive]

America's Greatest Comics #6 (December 16th, 1942)

Art by C.C. Beck and Pete Costanza

[wonderjanga]

Billy and Mister Scarlet

So, I was reading on the wiki for Mister Scarlet and apparently, he’s broke. Or at least he put himself out of a job. As a result, he has to work odd jobs. You know who also works odd jobs because he’s broke? Billy. Let’s just say they run into each other every now and then when the two happen to both help sweep a certain diner, or run delivers for a local ma and pop shop.

Billy: “Heya, Mister Butler.” *little wave as he picks up some food he needs to deliver*

Brian: “Hello, Billy.” *also picking up some food he needs to deliver*

Billy: “How’s your kid?”

Brian: “He’s doing good.”

And let me tell you right now I think Mister Scarlet, or Brian, cause that’s his name, would want to adopt Billy so badly, but, you know, he’s not in the best financial situation not only that but he has a kid of his own already. The man prays every that odd job he takes, Billy will be there so he can check up on the kid. Because I mean, Billy is such a sweetie. He’s such a cutie patootie and he’s so nice. He doesn’t deserve anything that he went through, and as much as he wants to call CPS, Billy explicitly told him not to. Billy told him this one day when they were unloading boxes, or rather Brian was unloading boxes and Billy was checking them off on a clipboard.

Brian: “I’m just saying, maybe the next home could be better.” *unloads a box from a truck*

Billy: “I’ve thought that too. Multiple times. I don’t ever wanna go to another home again. I’m better off on the streets. *checks something on the clipboard*

Brian: “But you’re not.”

Billy: “But I am.” *says with a little more annoyance in his tone than he’d like. He then realizes this and feels bad* “I’m sorry. I just don’t want to go back. I don’t want a repeat of the last five ones.”

Brian: *sighs* “I’m sorry too. I shouldn’t have pushed you.”

This incident just made him want to adopt Billy more. Then, during all of this, there was his vigilante life as Mister Scarlet. He’d met the hero Captain Marvel a few times now. The man seems friendly. Or at least he seemed friendly

It all started when the two had briefly teamed up to take down a villain.

Marvel: *staring at Mister Scarlet, looking confused*

Mister Scarlet: “What? What is it?”

Marvel: *puts hands on hips* “Well, it’s nothing really. It’s just that every time we meet, I can’t help but think you’re familiar.”

Mister Scarlet: “I don’t feel that at all.”

Marvel: “You don’t, but I do.” *stares for a few seconds* “Mister Butler…?”

Mister Scarlet: *has an almost-heart attack* “Wha? How do you?”

Marvel: “I’m Billyyyssss… uncle. Billy’s uncle.”

Solomon: “Nice save there, champ.”

Mister Scarlet: “Billy’s uncle…?” *remembers the one time Billy opened up to him about how his uncle was the reason he lived on the streets* “You… You bastard!”

Marvel: “What!?”

Mister Scarlet: “Billy! He told me about you! You scummy scum! That kid isn’t in school, working at the ripe age of 10! All because of you!”

Marvel: *hits Billy like a train when he remembers that he told Brian about the whole Ebenezer thing* “Uhm… he’s 12.” *mumbles*

Mister Scarlet: “Like that’s any better! How dare you! How dare you go and pretend to be a hero when you kicked that poor kid to streets?! What is wrong with you?!”

Marvel: *just stands there and takes the verbal lashing because he can’t really say anything without being outed as a liar*

[dcdreamblog]

So during your interview with Sandman, he mentioned someone named "Pinky" as one of the other sidekicks he hung out with.

This isn't someone I've heard of before, so I went to do some googling... and got an awful lot of a cartoon mouse.

Even "Golden Age Pinky" did not really do much to help here. Mostly just art of what said cartoon mouse would have looked like if animated in the 40's.

So who's this Pinky he was talking about?

That would be Pinky the Whiz Kid, sidekick and partner to Fawcett hero's very own vigilante Mr. Scarlet!

(A golden age era photograph of the duo swooping down from on high)

Mr Scarlet was Fawcett City lawyer and civic activist Brian Butler who, in a turn of events that was very common in his day simply became frustrated with the rampant corruption, lawlessness and organized crime on the streets of Fawcett City so invented for himself the mantle of Mr Scarlet for...obvious reasons. His claim to fame was his "Red Ray Gun" which could shoot beams of infrared energy at any intensity acting as both a powerful heat beam AND a potent tool of investigation. If one had to be reductive one could call him Fawcett City's Batman if Bulletman was the city's Superman during that era.

His sidekick, Pinky (as far as we can tell that is the man's given name) was first discovered by Butler after the boy's mother was murdered under gruesome circumstances while Pinky was unable to do anything but watch. Taken to a local orphanage after being rescued by Mr Scarlet after he promised to catch the killer, the monstrous criminal was on the run for two more weeks before appearing at the orphanage seemingly to silence Pinky as the only living witness. Pinky hadn't been idle though and had created his own pastiche of Mr Scarlet's costume to confront the monster, instrumental in not only defeating the killer but also uncovering his identity as the orphanage's very own teacher. Impressed by the young man (and with the vain and fleeting hope he might be able to keep the boy from putting himself in danger again) Mr Scarlet, in his guise as Brian Butler, adopted Pinky and revealed his secret to him. The rest, as they say, is history. Mr Scarlet and Pinky were partners through the rest of the war and the years after. They were both bizarrely but predictably targeted by the HUAC given their motif and retired for a long period during which Pinky followed in his father's footsteps and became a lawyer. You can look him up, Pinky Butler attorney at law comes with RAVE reviews from his clients who call him an honest and intelligent lawyer with a deep loyalty to truth and justice. Honestly the most interesting thing about the man is that he's never changed his name no matter what. He seems proud of the name "Pinky Butler" especially since the Butler surname was given to him by the man who adopted, trained and raised him.

The hero who currently goes by the name Mr Scarlet, still active in Fawcett City is widely theorized to be Pinky, grown up and following in his departed father's footsteps but as with any such "obvious" assumption in this business the evidence is inconclusive and often openly contradictory. But hey, if you need a lawyer in Fawcett City, look him up!

[daydreamerdrew]

Wow Comics (1940) #9, published in December 1942

[wanderingmind867]

Another new earth to add to the cosmos: Earth-S, home of Billy Batson/Captain Marvel and all the Fawcett comics characters. Like Spy-Smasher, Ibis the Invincible, Bulletman and Bulletgirl and Mr. Scarlet and Pinky the Whiz Kid! All these characters get to team up with the JLA and the JSA, to defend the cosmos! (Justice League of America #135):

[dare-g]

Night of Pan (2009)

[kenandeliza]

some old unused ideas that i have found from last year

i was searching in my private discord to see the messages i sent for myself (as a reminder to do certain comics) and I got reminded of some of these silly ideas I used to have [but probably will never do]

In a school trip to the Zoo, where Billy happens to be, they were showing their Jurassic exhibit, one of the kids fell and Billy as Marvel of coirse would save her by convincing the dinosaur to not eat her.

"She's filled with microplastics and seed oils! She's going to spike your cholesterol levels!" (Bullshiting his way out of that predicament)

The dinosaur wouldnt want that on his system, he's sticking to chicken meat !

The jurassic exhibit is named Pellucidar after Edgar Rice Burrough's book

The title might be wrong since I still have no idea how copyright works, but as far as I remembered, this was supposed to be a short comic of Captain Marvel (in the modern world after suspendium) getting accused of taking the name of Marvel's fictional superhero (in-universe, marvel is considered fiction in that universe). He'll either get help from Betty Bates (character that appears in Hit comics, the same one Kid Eternity came from) or Brian Butler(Mr Scarlet) to solve the case. Sadly im not as creative so this idea remains in the trash bin