The Unofficial Biography of...

Alter Ego: Merry Creamer (later legally changed to Merry Pemberton) King(?)
Occupation: minor student thru 1948
Marital Status: unknown
Known Relatives: "Fly-Foot" Creamer ( father, deceased ), John Pemberton, Jr. and Gloria Pemberton ( adoptive father and mother, both deceased ), Sylvester Pemberton III and "Breezy" Pemberton ( adoptive brothers, both deceased ), Arthur Pemberton ( nephew ), Henry King ( husband ( ? ), deceased ), Henry King Jr. ( son ), Jacquelline Pemberton (relative, deceased)
Group Affiliation: Old Justice
Base of Operations: Civic City, PA
Current Status: retired
Height: 5'3" (later 5'5")
Weight: 105 lbs. (later 120 lbs.)
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: Red, later grey
First Appearance: Star-Spangled Comics(v1) #81, 1948; (as The Gimmick Girl) Star-Spangled Comics(v1) #82, 1948.

As a toddler, Merry, the only daughter of second-story thief "Fly-Foot" Creamer was placed into an orphanage as her father began a short jail term. He never sought out custody, hoping she would have a better life without him.

Now a young teen, Merry was adopted by the wealthy Pemberton family, to hopefully serve as a playmate for teenaged Sylvester. The young boy's mother was worried when he came home one evening with a head bruise he got while fighting crime as The Star-Spangled Kid.

Some criminals found out about Merry being in the Pemberton home, and persuaded Fly-Foot to rob them or else they would reveal Merry's true heritige to her adoptive parents. While routing the crooks, Merry noticed that the Star-Spangled Kid was wounded in the same manner as Sylvester and deduced his dual identity. Saving his daughter's life Fly-Foot was killed, but died peacefully knowing his daughter was well taken care of.

When Stripesy broke his leg during a case soon afterwards, Merry took on a costumed identity as The Gimmick Girl, defeating foes with cleverly disguided weapons or gimmicks. The Gimmick Girl operated solo for a short while, later trying to find her adopted brother and his companion, unknowing that they had been lost through the timestream during the last case of the Seven Soldiers of Victory (I).

At some point in her adult life, she came into contact with Dr. Henry King, who had a criminal career during the 1940s as The Brain Wave. Whether or not the relationship was mutual or consentual is unknown, but she did bear a son, Henry "Hank" King, Jr. At some point during his late adolescence, Merry faked her death, possibly due to a nervous breakdown possibly influenced by ethier father or son's mental abilities.

Recently, she reappeared as The Gimmick Girl working with Old Justice, a group of former kid sidekicks demanding strict governmental restictions on young people acting as metahuman crimefighters. She was briefly reintroduced to the now-returned Stripesy, but it is unknown whether or not she has mede herself known to her son.

The Gimmick Girl used many small gimmicks hidden in a "utility belt" such as special bolos, knock out powder puffs, a boxing glove gun and others. It is possible that she adapted or reused weapons from a foe of the Star-Spangled Kid, Mr. Gimmick. She has recently updated some of her arsenel, and uses prerecorded holographic imagry on occasion.

Merry was a fair hand-to-hand fighter.