History

  Tommy, Scrapper, Gabby, and Big Words, four tough and cunning street kids from Suicide Slum, discovered that tough cop Jim Harper was actually the costumed crimefighter called The Guardian. They became his sidekicks and had many adventures with him and alone.

  Grown up, the kids from Suicide Slum became scientists and created Project Cadmus, funded by the US Government. The Project specialized in genetics and its technologies were used to clone a new body for Jim Harper and offer the Guardian a second take on life. During a takeover of Cadmus by the Apokoliptian creature named Sleez, the directors were cloned, thus giving birth to a new, teenaged, Newsboy Legion (II).

  [The original series placed Suicide Slum not in Metropolis but in Brooklyn.]