Scrapper

Patrick 'Scrapper' MacGuire was one of the scrappy young street kids of Suicide Slum who banded together as the Newsboy Legion, selling papers and finding trouble in equal measure under the watch of their guardian, the Guardian.

Born in the creative crucible of 1942, Scrapper leapt onto the Golden Age scene in Star Spangled Comics courtesy of the legendary duo Joe Simon and Jack Kirby — two names that defined an era. A DC character with genuine staying power, Scrapper's footprint stretches across an remarkable 75 years of comics history, from wartime newsstands all the way to 2017, with five key collector issues marking the highlights of that long journey. Along the way, Scrapper has shared pages with the likes of Big Words, Gabby, The Guardian, Jim Harper, and even Green Lantern, running in distinguished company across titles like Star Spangled Comics and DC Universe: Legacies. If you love tracing the deep roots of the DC universe back to its Simon-and-Kirby origins, Scrapper is exactly the kind of enduring Golden Age figure worth digging into.