Astro Boy (DC Comics)

Astro Boy is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. the character was created by Japanese-born cartoonist Oswald Tez and first appeared in New Adventure Comics Issue #13 (1937), his design was mainly a robot version of Tez's Toby character, according to Tez "I couldn't think of an original design, so I used my other character Toby as a base and the rest is history".

Astro is depicted as a young robot boy who is built in San Francisco who fights criminals, corrupt politicians, monsters and robots gone haywire and later on Nazis during World War II, after the war, Astro was re-branded as a "Commie Smasher" before eventually ending publication in the 50s.

Astro has since appeared with other DC works comics like Superman, Batman and others, mainly as cameo or supporting character, Fleischer Studios and later Famous Studios adapted the comic for a series of Technicolor Cartoons released between 1940 and 1943, Warner Bros. (current parent of DC Comics) now owns the cartoons.