Boy Wonders Battle Legendary Lads/Kicking Kids

A case early in Robin's costumed career led to the birth of a heroic team of brave boys. In the early-1940s, he ran across of a gang of kids in the act of crime which he quashed. After learning that they were misguided youths from the Boyville Reform School, the Boy Wonder convinces the facility's superintendent to allow him to play a part as a wayward lad in order to uncover the truth, which he eventually does.

This encounter with the young masked man-child would inspire one of the youths, Rusty Ryan, and his fellow schoolmates to take a more heroic path in life which would have long lasting repercussions for years to come, as we will see.

A universe away on a parallel world decades in the future, that world's Robin stumbled upon a confrontation between Val Armorr aka Karate Kid and maddened mutated maiden named Diamondeth. While attempting to subdue the crystalline woman, Robin is prevented from doing so by Karate Kid who overwhelms him with his martial arts prowess.

After the two lads confer and Val explained to Robin that the woman is actually is friend Iris Jacobs who was transformed into an inhuman creature due to an experiment that went awry, the two track her down and capture in a manner that doesn't harm her.

At this point, Karate Kid departs with her using a Time Bubble from his future era to bring her a thousands years into the future where science can reverse her condition. As such, the two boy wonders part on friendlier terms then when they initially met. Like the other Robin had done mending fences with a certain red haired kid.

Karate Kid would soon thereafter journey back to the 30th century he was native to and marry his longtime girlfriend Princess Projectra while rejoining the Legion of Super-Heroes of which they were both members. Iris would return to the 20th century, heartbroken that Val choose his future princess instead of her.

 

Back over on Earth-Two, red haired Rusty and his pals formed the Boyville Brigadiers and fought both criminals and foreign agents seeking to sow chaos. Adopting colorful costumes no doubt inspired by the example of Robin, who turned their lives around, these lads had a number of adventures for several years before retiring from crimefighting as adults. While Ryan never had occasion to travel to the 30th century like Val, his pal Robin had when the Boy Wonder was recruited by the Batman of the future, Brane Taylor.

As for the 30th century of Earth-One, tragedy struck soon after the marriage of Val and Projectra when an old foe and former fellow Legionnaire named Nemesis Kid... who years earlier tried to frame a crime of sabotage on Val in order to cover his own misdeeds... out of revenge pummeled Karate Kid to near death. In order to save Projectra's homeworld which Nemesis Kid and his super-villains allies had held hostage, Armorr sacrificed his life. And the Princess got justice for her husband in the end.