Been reading Jack Kirby's Fourth World stories and here was this guy: Flippa mother-effin' Dippa. He was added to the 1970's iteration of the Newsboy Legion. Kirby, wanting to include some color to the cast, introduced the world to Walter Johnson Jr., scuba enthusiast par none. One hopes he grew up to be a Sea Devil fighting the monsters of the deep.
Flippa Dippa is an odd combination but that's what makes him so damn
cool. Haters will hate though and he's probably been re-booted into limbo with all the other anachronistically beautiful DC characters of late. Or, more horribly, made into some grim, punisher-type, secret wet-works super-assassin or something equally 90's of the New 52. Also, he was probably Grant Morrison's inspiration for the wonderful Sea Guy. Grant was using a version of the Newsboy Legion during his Seven Soldiers series. Morrison loves himself some Kirby. As should we all. As should we all.
