World War II
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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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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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Justice (Part 1)
On a stormy night in Washington, D.C., a man named “Smythe” paid President Roosevelt a visit with news that the British spy network had learned Hitler intended to invade England at any moment. Lacking resources to repel a full-scale attack, Smythe was sent to plead for Roosevelt’s help. However, he handed Smythe a folder containing…
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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.…
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Mid-1940s
Baron Blitzkrieg In the early days of Hitler’s Reich, a Prussian nobleman whose name is unknown, offered his castle as a retreat…. It would have been a wonderful way to spend the war years if it hadn’t been for that one young Jew, who broke away from the terrified herd, who struck out with a…
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