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To Infinity And Beyond

Dec 13th

Posted by darren in All-Star Squadron

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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 >

Seven Soldiers

Seven Soldiers

Aug 20th

Posted by darren in All-Star Squadron

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The Seven Soldiers of Victory are a group of characters bound together in the Golden Age on Earth-Two, where the Justice Society hang their hat and their roll call has some familiar names.

Green Arrow and his sidekick Speedy and the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy are four that we have talked about previously which leaves us three new heroes to introduce.  Just remember this is Earth-TWO.

The Crimson Avenger is Lee Travis, a newspaper man of the late 30s and early 40s in the Golden Age.  He first emerged as a shadowy figure skulking in the background to dole out justice to those who needed to be stopped and were unable to be stopped by conventional means.  The Crimson Avenger is a striking figure in his early costume evocative of the pulp heroes of the day, but eventually will adopt a red and yellow costume with a sun motif on his chest that is more evocative of a traditional super-hero costume.

Crimson Avenger is assisted by an able Asian martial artist named Wing.   One of the Crimson Avenger’s trademark move is appearing from the midst of a cloud of crimson smoke.    Crimson Avenger despite his athleticism is a normal human being possessing no super powers… for now.

Sir Justin was More >

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Justice Society of America Roll Call IV

Mar 13th

Posted by darren in Comics

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When you think about it, when you have one set of characters that mimic your main set of characters you can take that group that is not the main group and take risks with them. The characters can grow, evolve, even die without an impact to merchandising. At least in 1982 to think that one day they would kill off a character as main as Batman was impossible. But a copy of Batman on another earth? Well, that could be entirely plausible as we will see.

Tonight we examine the “new kids” of the JSA at least as of 1982.

Yes, Robin, but the Robin of Earth-Two. Dick Grayson has grown up, become a lawyer, district attorney, and ambassador to the United Nations. Having grown up in Batman’s shadow all his life, Dick needed to get out from underneath the shadow of the Bat. Eventually he would wear a costume combining both his Robin colors and the Batman’s motif. He also went by “the Ex-Boy Wonder” to further distance himself as a man, not a boy.

Batman of Earth-One, Robin of Earth-Two, and that is the original Batwoman, Kathy Kane in this issue of Brave and the Bold.

Sylvester Pemberton picks up the mantle of Starman More >