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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.

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JSA Shield

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 >