The Government's First Undersecretary of Superheroics

Appointed in 1929 to serve as the first Undersecretary of Superheroics, Hubert Heebert went overnight from mild-mannered ice cream scooper to one of the Government's most famous faces. He handled the transition with aplomb, establishing many traditions that guide Undersecretaries to this day. It was Heebert, for example, who set down the guiding principle that no Undersecretary should himself be a costumed crimefighter. (It should be noted that no connection was ever proven between Heebert and famed crimefighter Charlie Charleston, who frequently teamed with Commander-in-Chair.)

Commander-in-Chair,
whose civilian identity
remains a mystery to
this day.

Of all the traditions established by Heebert, none has done more to cement the BoS in the popular imagination than that of granting each Undersecretary of Superheroics his or her own theme song. Heebert's own song, The Crimefighter Rag, proved to be one of the decade's best-selling broadsides of sheet music. To this day, it is a tradition that all super-proms end with the crowd joining together in a rousing rendition of those famous lyrics: