Mr. Scarlet is district attorney Brian Butler, who along with his adopted son Pinky the Whiz Kid, fought evil in his city for several years.

He used inventive devices to help him apprehend criminals, and had great acrobatic and hand-to-hand combatant skills.

[5] The heroes tangle with a wide variety of villains, including the sinister Death Battalion, who plan the assassinations of top government officials.

[7] Pinky was the adopted son of district attorney Brian Butler, also known as Mr. Scarlet, who fought evil in his city for several years.

Scarlet and Pinky helped defeat the Weeper and Earth-2 Joker while they committed crimes on Earth-S and turned people into diamonds, although no further adventures of this team were chronicled thereafter.

[7] After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, Pinky Butler is revealed to have taken over the identity of his father Mr. Scarlet after his death, having been active in Fawcett City for several years.

[8] In "The New Golden Age", Pinky was shown to be a captive of a Time Scavenger called Childminder on Orphan Island.