Mystery Men
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War!
On the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s chief foreign policy advisor, Harry Hopkins, desperately tried to contact members of the Justice Society of America… Meanwhile, in Oahu, Hawaii, on the outskirts of Wheeler Field, Rod Reilly (Firebrand) and his friend, Slugger Dunn, who had both joined the U.S. Navy, noticed…
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Pre-War Pt. 3
Robotman For years, Dr. Robert Crane and his assistant, Chuck Grayson, worked to perfect a mechanical robot. When Crane was shot during a robbery and lay dying, Grayson successfully performed an operation to put his brain into the skull of the robot. Grayson had been accused of killing Crane and was arrested. Crane fashioned a…
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Pre-War Pt. 2
Liberty Belle When we last saw Libby Lawrence, Rick Cannon had helped her escape from Poland to Amsterdam. Then… …he helped her escape to France, but she arrived just as the country surrendered to Hitler a month later. Then, one more time, he helped her escape to the United States. Libby became a darling of…
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Pre-War Pt. 1
Clarice Winston When we last saw Clarice Winston, Jim Corrigan had bargained to save her life and was bound with the Spectre Force. Soon after, he told her there was no future between them (because he was dead) and said goodbye. I can’t explain in a way to make you understand. It’s just how it…
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Quick Vigilante
Johnny Quick When young Johnny Chambers’ parents were killed in a car crash, Professor Ezra Gill became his guardian. Gill was a genius mathematician working on a formula for something he called, “the secret of space and time.” Gill told Johnny that when he died, he would pass the formula to him if he’d swear…
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Mid-1941
Ian Karkull, Pt. 2 After Dr. Fate left Ian Karkull a shadow to roam the world, Karkull met another villain, Wotan, whom, Dr. Fate had encased in an air bubble and left to die. The diabolic duo capture Inza and when Dr. Fate inevitably recused her… Update: Blackhawk When we first heard of Death Mayhew,…
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Shining Shadows
Ian Karkull One evening Kent Nelson and Inza attended a house party hosted by Everett Dahlen, an archeologist who sought the lost city of Ragnor in the Sahara with his partner, Ian Karkull. The party ended early when Dahlen was discovered dead and Nelson witnessed a strange, shadow-like creature leaving through the window. Meanwhile, in…
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Quality
The Spider Tom Hallaway was a millionaire playboy and big game hunter who used his skills to fight crime in the early 1940s using an alias, “the Spider.” Midnight After a long day of broadcasting, Dave Clark inadvertently stumbled into a deadly construction conspiracy and became… Plastic Man Patrick “Eel” O’Brien was a petty crook…
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Starman
When we last saw Ted Knight, Opal City playboy who preferred to devote his time to science rather than parties, he dismissed the television as something that would never catch on. He had subsequently become interested in the exploits of costumed mystery men who had been grabbing the headlines. There’s a temptation, almost, to join…
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Justice (Part 2)
When we last saw the group of heroes that stopped Hitler’s invasion of England, Flash commented that maybe they could have dinner sometime together to at least discuss the possibility of staying together as an army regiment. At a later date, Johnny Thunder was aware of the resulting meeting but was offended he was not…
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