For several years the alliance proved beneficial for all involved and the streets rang with the rhyming puns and witty wordplay of the pint-sized poets.
Unfortunately, the winter of 1946 took its toll on the diminutive ragamuffins. And by then The Master's restless claw had moved on.
Crippled Newsboy Alliance
Craven W. Sleaseman - Zontar's personal agent, awarding the lucrative Endorsement of the Master to the leaders of the Crippled Newsboy Alliance.
However the surviving lads found salvation in the cozy care of Constance Burden, the Angel of the Alleys, the Florence Nightingale of the Tenements. She spread Zontar's message to the most horrendous hovels.
