Usually in the Golden Age villains didn't often cross from one feature to another. One of the few exceptions was the villain Crazy Quilt, who was allegedly created by Jack Kirby in BOY COMMANDOS #15 (1946). He went on to three more appearances before his last one in BOY COMMANDOS #33 (seen above, possibly drawn by Curt Swan), just three issues before the title was cancelled in 1949.
There was no reference to the villain's history with the Boy Commandos when he was introduced as a new villain for Robin the Boy Wonder in STAR SPANGLED COMICS #123 (1951), but the theoretical storytellers John Broome and Jim Mooney had nothing to do with the Commandos features so far as I know. Possibly, because the Commandos title was dead, someone decided that Crazy Quilt was worth re-using instead of making up a new pattern-criminal. This was the colorful crook's final Golden Age story, not least because STAR SPANGLED COMICS was cancelled in 1952, leaving Robin to return to his status as Batman's partner. However, DC reprinted the Boy Wonder's combat with the multicolored menace, and this resulted in CQ getting revived in a 1979 BATMAN issue, so that from then on he was defined as a de facto opponent for the Dynamic Duo.
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