Courtney Whitmore is a teenage girl living in Blue Valley who becomes a superhero. Courtney began as the second Star-Spangled Kid when she discovered the gear of retired hero Sylvester Pemberton. Her stepfather Pat Dugan, originally known as Stripsey and later S.T.R.I.P.E., was Pemberton's adult sidekick. Jack Knight later gave Courtney his Cosmic Staff, and she took the name Stargirl to honor the Starman legacy. She has been a member of the Justice League and the Justice Society of America.
Courtney is commonly not known to be or have a love interest, but still does had a history of having some.
Romances[]
Captain Marvel[]
While not her first, Billy Batson had been one of her more well-known love interests and a favourite to some fans.
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JSA #40
In the 2000s JSA comic line set in New Earth, Billy and Courtney, both 16 year old JSA members, had been close allies since Billy joined the JSA. Billy had a secret crush on Courtney. Black Adam (a.k.a. Teth-Adam), ruler of Kahndaq, another JSA member, and a close ally and former enemy of Billy, notice that, but tells him that she's "out of your league." Besides Adam, no one in the JSA knew that Billy was a actual teenager who is the same age as Courtney, that is until the Princes of Darkness storyline, when Courtney and Billy were transported to the alternate realm known as the Shadowlands, where Billy can’t access his powers and is reverts to his true identity. The transformation shocked Courtney, realising that Billy is another teenager in the Justice Society. At first, Billy explains that the wizard Shazam is where he got the powers from, and when Courtney asked him if anyone else in the team knows that he's a teen, he just names Black Adam, which got Courtney understandably concerned due to Adam once being a bad guy.
JSA #48
While the two were traveling together in the Shadowlands, Courtney finds that Billy acts less sure but also more relaxed when he’s not an adult superhero and asked what is it like to be in his adult form, in which Billy claims to be strange and discusses about an school test he had in the same day he was fighting Black Adam back when he was evil, in which he decided to turn into Captain Marvel to do the test, but than realised how wrong it was to cheat, so he switched back to himself and did the test without help. He than discloses both his real age (Which happens to be the same as her) and his name to Courtney, who then mentions how glad she is to meet him and started kissing him on the lips.
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JSA #59
After returning to Earth, Billy and Courtney began dating, which isn't the first time for Courtney since previously, she was in a relationship with Joshua Hamman. Billy and Courtney spent most of their time as superheroes together with the JSA, a team that (besides Black Adam and Courtney) don't know Billy's true secret identity (since he's always in his adult Captain Marvel form while working with the team) making other teammates concern that Billy, who they think is a grown man (when in reality, he's not), is having a romantic relationship with a 16 year old. At first, Jakeem Williams (another friend of Courtney) and Johnny Thunder notice Courtney and Billy together, in which Jakeem was suspicious about. Then, Jay Garrick, the original Flash, expresses his concerns to Billy. While tempted to reveal the truth of his secret identity to the others, Billy finds his Wisdom of Solomon prevents him from doing so. Unable to see another option, Billy flies to Courtney’s window and tells her he’s leaving the Justice Society. Despite Courtney begging him to switch back to his true self so he won’t be influenced by the gods empowering him, Billy flies away, breaking up with Courtney.
Joshua Hamman[]
The lesser known Joshua Hamman was Courtney's first love interest.