Alter Ego: Amelia "Sisty" Hunkel
Occupation: None
Known Relatives: "Hunk" Hunkel (father, first name unknown); Abigail Mathilda "Ma" Hunkel (mother, maiden name unknown); Huey Hunkel (brother), Gus and Herman Hunkel (uncles); Felix Hunkel (cousin). Note: Years later, Sisty Hunkel married her childhood sweetheart, Dinky Jibbet.
Alter Ego: Mortimer "Dinky" Jibbet
Occupation: None
Known Relatives: Mr. Jibbet (father, first name unknown); Mrs. Jibbet (mother, first name and maiden name unknown); Sheldon "Scribbly" Jibbet (brother, first name assumed). Note: Years later, Dinky Jibbet married his childhood sweetheart, Sisty Hunkel.
Team Affiliation: Sidekicks to the original Red Tornado; members of the All-Star Squadron (by default)
Base of Operations: New York City
First Appearance: All-American Comics #24 (Mar 1941)

History: In late Summer of 1940, young Sisty Hunkel and Dinky Jibbet were kidnapped by the Torponi gang. Sisty's mother, Abigail "Ma" Hunkel, donned a costume and rescued the children, beginning her new career in crimefighting as the Red Tornado (see entry for the Red Tornado for details).

Over the next few weeks, the Red Tornado becomes a neighborhood legend, as "he" systematically drives out the local racketeers. Scribbly Jibbet, the teen-aged brother of Dinky, who works as a cartoonist for the Morning Despatch, is told by his editor that the Red Tornado confines "his" activities to Scribbly's neighborhood, and that Scribbly should stick around his home to get a glimpse of the mysterious character. If he can get a drawing of the Red Tornado, the Despatch will be the only paper in town with a visual of the local hero. Ma Hunkel hears of Scribbly's dilemma, changes into the Red Tornado, and offers to pose for the boy cartoonist. The next morning, the world gets its first good look at the oddly-clad hero.

One day, many weeks later, in late Autumn of 1940, the Red Tornado chases off a bully who has been picking on Sisty. The bully goes to the police and complains. The police decide that this Red Tornado business has gone on long enough. Police Chief Gilhooley, who has had a grudge against the Red Tornado ever since the Torponi affair, has given orders that the mystery man should be picked up if spotted. A group of cops find the Red Tornado and chase "him" into the zoo. Ma Hunkel places her costume on a gorilla and frees him, taking his place in the cage. When the police arrive, she tells them that the Red Tornado freed the gorilla and locked her in. After a wild chase around the zoo, the "Red Tornado" is captured and unmasked. Everyone but Scribbly and Huey Hunkel are convinced that the gorilla was the real Red Tornado.

Later that day, Scribbly tells his editor that the Red Tornado can't possibly be a gorilla because he has heard "him" talk. Scribbly's boss tells Scribbly he was just imagining things. Later, Scribbly complains to Ma Hunkel about the article which is about to run. Ma wonders why it matters. Scribbly explains that all the racketeers that the Red Tornado has scared away will read the paper and return. Ma realizes he is right and changes into the Red Tornado in order to pay the editor a visit.

Soon after, the Red Tornado appears on the window ledge of the editor of the Morning Despatch. The editor is preparing a front page that proclaims that the Red Tornado was a hoax! Just as she is about to enter the window, the Red Tornado loses her balance and falls ... passed the 28th floor, the 27th, the 26th ... down, down she goes. Luckily, the Red Tornado's pants seat becomes snagged on a 7th floor flagpole, saving her. Unfortunately, she is stranded there. The paper hits the streets and, as feared, the criminal element immediately surfaces. Within 12 hours, everyone is talking about the sudden crime wave.

Sisty Hunkel reads the paper and asks Dinky Jibbet if he has heard about the Red Tornado being a fake. Dinky refuses to believe it. Sisty says, fake or not, the gangsters need to be stopped. When Dinky says the country needs more mystery men, Sisty gets an idea and grabs her friend. She begins cutting colorful cloth and fits Dinky with a costume, explaining that she is creating two of the country's best mystery men ... the Cyclone Kids!

After making herself a matching costume, the Cyclone Kids head out onto the streets. They confront two of the city's toughest racketeers, who are counting their ill-gotten money. Sisty demands that they hand over the money. The crooks chase her around a corner, where Dinky cracks both of them over the head with a board. The kids grab the money and run, but the criminals chase them down. They are cornered at the foot of the Morning Despatch! Just as the gangsters threaten to shoot the kids, the editor of the Despatch tosses his cigar out of his window. Miraculously, it lands on the Red Tornado's snagged pants. The cigar burns through the hero's pants, freeing her. She falls on the two gangsters, saving the kids. The next morning, the Despatch retracts its previous article, stating that there is indeed a real Red Tornado after all ... and "he" now has the help of two small editions.

Weapons and Powers: The Cyclone Kids have no special abilities. They rely solely on their cunning and skills as scrappers to battle neighborhood crime.