Comic Title: Young All-Stars #10
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: March 1988
On Sale Date: November 17, 1987 Shipping Date November 17, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #46

Shipping Date November 17, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #129

Copyright Date December 8, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 32
Editor: Roy Thomas

Title: "Like Father..."
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Young All-Stars

Writer: Roy Thomas
Writer: Danette Thomas
Artist: Brian Murray
Letterer: Jean Simek (Izzo)
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Feature Character(s)

• Young All-Stars (last appearance in Young All-Stars #9; next appearance in Young All-Stars #11)
• Iron Munro (last appearance in Young All-Stars #9; next appearance in Young All-Stars #11)
• Fury (last appearance in Young All-Stars #9; next appearance in Young All-Stars #11)
• Flying Fox (last appearance in Young All-Stars #9; next appearance in Young All-Stars #11)
• Dan the Dyna-Mite (last appearance in Young All-Stars #9; next appearance in Young All-Stars #11)

Guest Star(s)

• Hugo Danner (in flashback; next appearance in Young All-Stars #11)

Villain(s)

• Several German soldiers (no further appearances)
• Will Melcher (a corrupt politician; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Abednego and Matilda Danner (Hugo's parents; in flashback; next appearance in Young All-Stars #11)
• Anna Blake Munro (Arn's mother; in flashback; next appearance in Young All-Stars #11)
• Lefty Foresman and Iris (Hugo's college friend and his cousin; no further appearances)
• Coach Woodman (no further appearances)
• Charlotte (Hugo's college girlfriend; no further appearances)
• Tom Shayne (no further appearances)
• Mr. Hackett (a bank manager; no further appearances)
• Mr. Shayne (Tom's father; no further appearances)
• Daniel Hardin (an archaeologist; no further appearances)
• Captain McClaren (a police detective; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in part in Young All-Stars #11.

This story is a loose adaptation of Gladiator, a novel by Phiip Wylie, published in 1930.

The framing sequence of this story takes place May 12, 1942.

Synopsis:
Arn Munro begins reading the journal of Hugo Danner which was given to him by a priest in the Caribbean. The journal chronicles the life of Hugo who was born in Indian Creek, Colorado as the only son of Abednego and Matilda Danner. Abednego was a scientist who developed a formula that could be injected into the womb of pregnant females. The children were then born with amazing strength and invulnerability. Hugo was the first and only child born of this experiment.

Hugo learned early in life to hold back his amazing strength when dealing with people. He was able to uproot trees at the age of ten, leap forty feet in the air, and run like the wind. Eventually he left Colorado to attend Webster University. He became a football star, but accidentally killed an opposing player when he failed to hold back his full strength.

After time away from school, Hugo enlisted in the Foreign Legion and fought in the first World War. He was the only survivor of a bombing attack. Angered at the loss of his friends, Hugo single-handedly killed an entire platoon of Germans. He thought about taking out the Kaiser himself, but the war ended before he had an opportunity.

Hugo returned to the States and took a job at a bank. He rescued a man trapped in the vault by ripping it open with his bare hands. When police questioned him, he fled. Hugo then kept a promise to his dying father by cleaning up dirty politicians in Washington. Eventually Hugo joined the archaeological expedition of Daniel Hardin, who learned his secret. Troubled by thoughts about creating a race of men with his powers, Danner climbed a South American pyramid and was struck by lightning. Hardin found his corpse and passed along the journal which Arn has finished reading.