Heading back to Earth-Two for our next set of heroes, but as is the case in most of these situations we have to take 2 steps back to take a step forward and these steps back include two new members of the All-Star Squadron we haven’t discussed previously.

Say hello to Will Everett, Amazing-Man.  Will was an Olympic athlete who competed in Berlin and showed up the Third Reich.  His athletic fame faded quickly once he returned to still segregated America.  Will wound up taking menial jobs and was working as a janitor when he was caught in an explosion that gave him his ability to touch matter and absorb the properties of that material.  He would touch cement and become living cement, touch a wedding ring and he becomes gold, touch a tire and he gains the properties of galvanized rubber and so on.

When the All-Star Squadron confronts Will, he is working as a henchman for a villain called the Ultra-Humanite.  Eventually, Will’s better nature took over and he betrayed the Ultra-Humanite and joined the All-Star Squadron.

Will becomes our first African-American hero in terms of history so much that future tales would show that Will would go on and become a strong supporter of the More >