The Unofficial Biography of...

Dyna-Mite

Alter Ego: Daniel Dunbar
Occupation: minor student thru 1944
Marital Status: single
Known Relatives: Charles and Judith Dunbar ( father and mother, presumed deceased )
Group Affiliation: All-Star Squadron, Young All-Stars, "Old Justice"
Base of Operations: Washington D.C., later New York City
Current Status: retired
Height: 5'5" ( later 5'11" ) Weight: 127 lbs. ( later 165 lbs. )
Eye Color: blue Hair Color: red ( later grey )
First Appearance: Star-Spangled Comics# 7, April, 1942.

History

........The only child of Charles and Judith Dunbar, young Danny was a lonely boy who found friendship in his track coach and chemistry teacher, Tex Thomas. While Thomas was working on a secret chemical compound, he and Danny found that they were asorbing certain properties from the chemicals, and when treated with a slight electical contact, found that the duo had aquired super-powers.
........Thomas and Dunbar decided to use the abilities to fight crime and a short time before the US entry into World War II adventured as TNT and Dyna-Mite. They were invited to join the wartime conglomerate of mystery-men known as The All-Star Squadron and on one of those missions for the group, while investigating suspected spy activiites near Boulder, CO, TNT was killed by Nazi spies.
........Fearing that his short career as a mystery-man was over, Dyna-Mite first joined up with several other young heroes that banded together during that case and formed the All-Star Squadron sub-group known as The Young All-Stars. Dyna-Mite found that he could now activate the concussive electrical blasts on his own, and continued on with his career. His parents found out about his secret identity in mid-1942, but it is unknown what happened after that revelation.
,,,,,,,,,About two years ago, however, along with other former "sidekicks" of World War II heroes, he formed the advocacy group known as "Old Justice", hoping to control and restrict younger meta-humans under governmental controls.

Powers and Abilities

Chronological Listing of Comic Book Appearances

World's Finest Comics# 5
Star-Spangled Comics(v1)# 7-8
All-Star Squadron# 31-32February 22-23, '42
SSC# 9-23

All-Star Squadron# 60 April 15, '42 thru May 5, '42
Young All-Stars# 7-8
Young All-Stars# 9-11 May 12-15, '42
Young All-Stars# 12-14 May 20, '42
Young All-Stars Annual# 1 May 23, '42
Young All-Stars# 15
Young All-Stars# 16-19 thru early June '42
Young All-Stars# 21-25 June 10-11, '42
Young All-Stars# 30-31 June '42
Superman Family#No longer in continuity
Super-Friends# 12 No longer in continuity
The Golden Age# 1-4 not in continuity
Young Justice# 16

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This Page was last Updated Febraury 7, 2001.

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