Superheroes continue to practically own pop culture right now. Balladeer’s Blog’s readers wanted more, so I recently posted a look at the Superhero Pantheon of Ace Periodicals. Here is another of their characters that I just added. FOR THE ORIGINAL ITEM FEATURING NEARLY TWENTY MORE FORGOTTEN HEROES AND HEROINES CLICK HERE
THE FLAG
Secret Identity: Jim Courtney, flag-maker
Origin: An unnamed baby was left on the doorstep of crippled World War One veteran John Courtney in 1920. Courtney, a flag-maker, was intrigued by the American Flag birthmark on the infant’s chest. He named the boy Jim and raised him as his son, teaching him his flag-making trade.
On Jim’s 21st birthday he was visited by the ghosts of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln who told him he was a super-powered being and that his powers were ready to be used now that he was an adult. Jim donned a costume and fought the forces of evil as the Flag.
First Appearance: Our Flag Comics #2 (October 1941). His final Golden Age appearance came in 1942.
Powers: Continue reading
1. UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT UNION PURPLE RAIDERS (Defending Champions) ### 2. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN AT OSHKOSH TITANS ### 3. UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR CRUSADERS ### 4. UNIVERSITY OF SAINT THOMAS (MN) TOMMIES ### 5. LINFIELD COLLEGE WILDCATS ### 
6. FROSTBURG STATE BOBCATS ### 7. WARTBURG COLLEGE KNIGHTS ### 8. WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE PRESIDENTS ### 9. SAINT JOHN’S UNIVERSITY JOHNNIES ### 10. DELAWARE VALLEY UNIVERSITY AGGIES ### 
Many readers have been asking me why I don’t do my own #WalkAway article about how I was driven away from the Democrats by their unhinged fascism. Basically because ever since 2010 many items here at Balladeer’s Blog have ALREADY BEEN my #WalkAway testimonials. I’ve also featured other former Democrats who came to feel just as disgusted long before this whole, beautiful #WalkAway movement began. 
Another one of the latest #WalkAway heroes is Rob Smith who is black and gay and is fed up with the way Democrats treat black people and gay people like they own them. The link to the item is below, but first some excerpts:
“I think for me, I got so sick of the lies. What they were telling black people,” Smith said. 
By way of this general announcement I will once again remind the ridiculous poseurs who refer to themselves as SJW’s that, if they expect me to allow their comments to show – comments in which they absurdly refer to themselves with that hilariously pretentious and grandiose SJW label – then they have to address me as a “Heroic Defender of Freedom.” 
BOONE MAY – We ring down the curtain on another Frontierado holiday with this look at neglected gunslinger Daniel Boone May, better known as just Boone May. 
IT’S THE FIRST FRIDAY OF AUGUST, MEANING IT’S FRONTIERADO! NOW CELEBRATED ON SIX CONTINENTS!
BOOT HILL: The name has survived in much western lore as THE name for graveyards filled with gunslingers, outlaws and other stock figures of the Wild West. Today it serves as a blog post in which I focus on the causes of death for many of the men and women who have shown up in my Frontierado items over the years. 
TEXAS BEN THOMPSON – Shot to death by multiple gunmen at Jack Harris’ Vaudeville Theater in San Antonio, TX on March 11th, 1884. It was a revenge killing that also claimed Thompson’s friend and fellow gunslinger John “King” Fisher. 
CAPTAIN VICTORY 
Powers: Captain Victory (No relation to the Jack Kirby character of that name) could fly and had massive super strength. The upper limits of his flying abilities and his strength were never established before the character disappeared. 
LIGHTNING GIRL 
The Frontierado holiday is Friday, August 3rd!
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) – 1. MORNINGSIDE COLLEGE MUSTANGS ### 2. UNIVERSITY OF SAINT FRANCIS (IN) COUGARS (Defending Champions) ### 3. REINHARDT UNIVERSITY EAGLES ### 4. LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS ### 5. NORTHWESTERN (IA) COLLEGE RED RAIDERS ### 
6. SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FIRE ### 7. DICKINSON STATE BLUE HAWKS ### 8. ARIZONA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FIRESTORM ### 9. MONTANA TECH OREDIGGERS ### 10. CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY PHOENIX ### 
