Sandy the Golden Boy
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Sandy the Golden Boy is a DC Comics superhero created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby.
"Sandy" Belmont was originally the sidekick to the original Sandman. Like Batman's Robin, he was an orphan who was adopted by the hero he fought beside, although Sandy had one prominent surviving relative: Dian Belmont, the Sandman's love interest in the early Golden Age of Comic Books and in the Sandman Mystery Theater series set in the same time period.
Sandy was a member of the Young All-Stars, a team that was later absorbed into the All-Star Squadron. He was later turned into a silicon-based monster and, after being turned back to normal by Sandman and the Justice League, found that he had various earth-related powers, notably the ability to transform himself into sand. He changed his codename to Sand and led the modern incarnation of the JSA for a time.
During the "Princes of Darkness" storyline in JSA, Sand was thought to have been destroyed while preventing multiple earthquakes on Earth but was in actually put into a limbo. He was eventually saved and is now back with the JSA.