Mary Bromfeld, actually. She was adopted.
This I think I’m on safer grounds in disputing. I said there were some around - although few of your examples are real people-type names - but they didn’t start littering the landscape before Stan Lee put them into almost every book. Sure you can comb through every one of the thousands of earlier names in comics and find examples, but very, very few will be systematic. Even Superman’s LL’s took years to come about - Lana in the late 40s, Lori in the 50s, etc.
I think Robbie’s first name is Joe. He’s called Robbie for his* last * name.
So there IS a reason for this after all? I’d gotten really curious, it figures into something I’m writing.
I believe she changed her name back after Billy discovered her, but I could be wrong about that.
Exapno, I certainly agree that Stan took the practice to a new level. Most of the alliteration and rhymes before him are almost exclusively from humor strips, or humorous sidekicks in adventure/superhero strips; I thnk the publishers of the Golden Age knew that these tricks had a whimsical air about them, which made them funny.
–Cliffy
And as far as teams go, there’s Fantastic Four, Freedom Force, Power Pack, Liberty Legion (which I assume was a wink at the convention, having been ret-conned in an X-book as having been active during WW2) and on the vallianous side there’s the Frightful Four, the Lethal Legion, Batroc’s Brigade and Salem’s Seven.
Now where do the Groovy Ghoulies fit into all of this?
Also Satan’s Six (a Jack Kirby team from '90s Topps Comics), Seven Soldiers (of Victory), the Fearsome Five, Secret Society of Supervillains, and Secret Six.
AKA Law’s Legionnaires.
Devil’s Dozen (of which there were only 5. O_o)
Fearsome Five
Squadron Sinister/Supreme
Suicide Squad