Mystery Men
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Seven Soldiers
Remember Hypertime? Remember that all versions of history exist as branching “rivers” in Hypertime. When events cause a timeline to shift and new branches are created, histories can be forgotten, yet vague memories can bleed through to other timelines and histories. An example of this phenomenon is a secondary team known as the Seven Soldiers…
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War! Part 2
On the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his chief foreign policy advisor desperately tried to contact members of the Justice Society of America, Hawkman discovered the temporary meeting rooms of the Justice Society of America (Wesley Dodds’ penthouse) empty… except for Plastic Man. They turned on the radio…
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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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