Originally Posted by
MajorHoy
Well, not sure what you mean by "modern form" beyond Kirby's revival of them in Jimmy Olsen in the 1970s (and later use of them again in the 1990s as part of the Superman comics). As for the idea of the "Newsboy Legion" itself, that would be hard to translate into the 21st century since you don't normally see kids hawking newspapers on the street corners these days, and you'd have Child Services theoretically getting more involved in trying to keep the kids from living outside of a foster family system.