Master’s Metahuman Minions or Baron’s Bad Boys

While the dynamic duo of Fairfax faced a variety of colorful foes, a large percentage of them were manufactured metahuman. Developed in the Evil Factory that had been claimed by the mysterious Master, their mission was to capture the young teenager heroes and their H-Dials. Originally, this facility was developed by two lieutenants of Darkseid from Apokolips, Mokkari and Simyan, until Superman’s pal and Daily Planet reporter Jimmy Olsen… along with the Newsboy Legion… shut it down.  That is, until the Master claimed it for himself.

Originally the owner of the first H-dial, young Robby Reed became corrupted when he used the device to split him into two individuals in order to save Earth-One. Transformed into the wicked Master, Reed became amnesiac and obsessed with claiming the two new H-Dials created by his other benevolent self. These were now on the possession of teenagers Chris King and Vicki Grant. The pair, aided by their pal Nick Stevens who used the dial to become the heroic Shifter, overpowered the Master’s minions. Eventually, the three teens were able to reason with Reed, bringing him back to his senses.

A different yet somewhat similar situation occurred on Earth-Two, when a pair of teenagers from the 1970s were transported 17 years into their past to help their infant selves battled bad guys. These kids, Cecil “Spike” Wilson and Sugar Plumm… along with their friend Bernie … were pulled back in time due to Bernie’s prototype time ray. Pursued by the evil Baron and his oafish henchmen Claude and Sidney, the teens created multiple clones of Spike to overwhelm the terrible trio.

The Sugar and Spike babies had many other adventures in the 1960s, even once becoming an heir to the original Red Tornado Ma Hunkle in their Tornado Tot alias. They even met Hunkle’s fellow Justice Society members on one occasion, and in a possible future as adults became metahuman investigators.

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Interestingly, as implausible as many of infant Sugar and Spike’s tales were as taking place on Earth-Two, equally *impossible tales* were told of the infants Kal-El/Clark Kent and Princess Diana when they were Superbaby and Wonder Tot. And yet, at least some of the adventures were seen as canonical on Earth-One. A similar principle would apply to Sugar and Spike’s stories, with the concession being that they were told from a child’s perspective or point-of-view.