Flashback: USSR

Vladimir Sokow

Vladimir Sokow was born in Bobruisk, USSR, in 1923.

He proved his father wrong and earned the respect of his fellow soldiers, but was ready for new challenges…

If you kept your eyes open – and your mind – opportunities for advancement lay everywhere.

He was a high-ranking official in the political directorate. I’d heard they sometimes plucked soldiers from the field and turned them into spies…

His first and only assignment was one he’d been unknowingly preparing for his whole life. Word reached the directorate that MI8 had identified the location of the “Crimson Flame of Death” and the United States was mounting a mission to harvest it.

My mission was to infiltrate the U.S. Army engineering unit tasked with retrieving the weapon and then use my position to intercept it for the glory of the Soviet Union.

John Michael Ladd

Sokov was furnished with papers and arrived in the United States as a spy. It was here that he used Alan Scott’s desire to his advantage… and met his fate with the Crimson Flame. But not his final fate…

To be continued…


Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #4
Mar. 2024 (Jan. 30, 2024)
$3.99

“Resurrection”
20 pages

Writer: Tim Sheridan
Penciller: Cian Toormey
Inker: Jordi Tarragona Garcia
Inker: Raul Fernandez
Inker: John Livesay
Editor: Andrew Marino


On April 3, 1940, Quality Comic Magazines, Inc. published National Comics #1. Will Eisner was editor and wrote the story for a new hero: Uncle Sam.

On May 24, 1940, DC (All-American Comics, Inc.) published All-Star Comics #1, featuring solo adventures for characters with whom we’re by now familiar: Hawkman, Sandman, Flash, Spectre, and Hourman.