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Post by redsycorax on Feb 2, 2024 0:44:45 GMT
There's been a slight change of plans. Fireball and Steelwolf will be on the same side as Horned Owl and Midnight Angel. It's June 1953 and in London, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are about to be crowned at Westminster Abbey. Unfortunately, there's an assassin who's lurking around the city, ready to find a time to strike, and it's someone known to both the British and Soviet action heroes alike. Baron Ernst Reiter...or, as he was known during the Second World War, Baron Blitzkrieg.
Insofar as continuity's concerned, the Justice Society disbanded two years ago (1951), although Superman, Batman and Robin and Wonder Woman are all still active. So has Britain's WW2 Victory Legion.
It turns out one of the Soviet heroes has good reason to want to bring Reiter to justice...
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Post by DocQuantum on Feb 2, 2024 7:26:14 GMT
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 2, 2024 22:43:18 GMT
When did the JSA Blitzkrieg story take place, Doc? Ah, I see- 1986, post-Crisis 5E. So I'll have to have Reiter survive this 1953 encounter in London. And thanks for the references. I'll write them into the continuity for the Coronation story. I've also been thinking of introducing an Earth-Two equivalent for the Ace of Blades, the Earth-S Phantom Eagle female Luftwaffe pilot and Phantom Eagle protagonist. Annaliese Baader*, the Earth-Two Ace of Blades, lost her whole family when the Allies bombed Dresden. Given that Midnight Angel was on that raid with her male RAF colleagues, Baader wants revenge and she's teamed up with Baron Blitzkrieg to get it. Baader was probably trained at the Leipzig school and could be profitably used in other WW2 adventures as well, particularly against female US, UK and other Allied metahumans: dc.fandom.com/wiki/Ace_of_Blades*She doesn't have a name in her original Wow Comic appearance, so I've provided her Earth-Two analogue with one.
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Post by dans on Feb 2, 2024 23:01:40 GMT
Pretty sure the disbanding of the JSA had to do with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee investigation...
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 2, 2024 23:22:17 GMT
Which apparently turned out differently in the 5Earths continuity. However, many of the JSA/All Star Squadron seem to have been getting on with their civilian careers and starting families after WW2, so I've chosen that option instead. Perhaps 5E's JSA disbanded for those reasons rather than Macarthyism.
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 5, 2024 3:48:03 GMT
Okay, just introduced Annaliese Baader, the Earth-Two Ace of Blades. Given the absence of a Phantom Eagle on Earth-Two, I've made Ms Baader Midnight Angel's nemesis instead. Her modified Messerschmidt 262 now also has a name- Silberhai, or "Silver Shark."
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 7, 2024 4:31:26 GMT
I've just killed off Nazi speedster Zyklon and Atoman in a climatic battle scene set in May 1945, which also claims the life of Soviet metahuman Boris Dhumov, Proletariat. And there was a replacement metahuman Nazi team after the UBA fell apart in 1943, Supersoldaten du Reiches. The survivors are Ace of Blades, Baron Blitzkrieg and Sinestra, although the latter isn't going to be part of the postwar partnership of the Ace and the Baron. Proletariat and Fireball (Sonya Ruikov) were in a relationship and she mourns his death. Escaping the battlescene in Ace of Blades Silbershai, which is capable of high altitude flight beyond the range of Allied reprisal and detection, Anneliese Baader and Baron Reiter find that their mutual respect for one another has deepened into something else.
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Post by DocQuantum on Feb 7, 2024 8:01:06 GMT
I've just killed off Nazi speedster Zyklon and Atoman in a climatic battle scene set in May 1945, which also claims the life of Soviet metahuman Boris Dhumov, Proletariat. And there was a replacement metahuman Nazi team after the UBA fell apart in 1943, Supersoldaten du Reiches. The survivors are Ace of Blades, Baron Blitzkrieg and Sinestra, although the latter isn't going to be part of the postwar partnership of the Ace and the Baron. Proletariat and Fireball (Sonya Ruikov) were in a relationship and she mourns his death. Escaping the battlescene in Ace of Blades Silbershai, which is capable of high altitude flight beyond the range of Allied reprisal and detection, Anneliese Baader and Baron Reiter find that their mutual respect for one another has deepened into something else. Atoman actually never operated as a super-agent until after Nazi Germany was defeated, and then only in late 1945 in America. It was in October, 1945 (after WWII was over) that he battled the Earth-2 Superman in Metropolis. He was thought dead, but ended up in a coffin in suspended animation for nearly 40 years until he awoke on Earth-1, then fought the Earth-1 Superman and Batman. His entire history is explained in World's Finest Comics #271, which is the only canonical take on the character (the radio version is somewhat different and exists in an alternate continuity separate from Earth-2). Atoman still lives in the present as of 1986 on Earth-1 as seen in a Captain Comet story on our site by Libby, which is easily found through a search at 5earths.info/ or 5earths.com/
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Post by DocQuantum on Feb 7, 2024 8:05:52 GMT
Which apparently turned out differently in the 5Earths continuity. However, many of the JSA/All Star Squadron seem to have been getting on with their civilian careers and starting families after WW2, so I've chosen that option instead. Perhaps 5E's JSA disbanded for those reasons rather than Macarthyism. The JSA's disbanding was seen in Adventure Comics #466's "The Defeat of the Justice Society." This has not been changed in our continuity.
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 7, 2024 20:52:34 GMT
Thank you, Doc. I shall accordingly modify the story to give Zyklon a greater role and remove the references to Atoman.
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 8, 2024 22:03:45 GMT
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 9, 2024 2:30:34 GMT
Does anyone know the ultimate fate of Sinestra aka the Purple Priestess from Wonder Woman 25 (September/October 1947)? I'm going to have her escape from Zurikan where she was running that extortion and kidnapping racket and have her killed by Baron Blitzkrieg and Ace of Blades before she can give away any details of their Paraguayan refuge. Or was she already dead by then? I know Wonder Woman destroyed her cult, but did she die at the end of the story?
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Post by DocQuantum on Feb 9, 2024 4:40:24 GMT
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Post by redsycorax on Feb 9, 2024 22:32:02 GMT
Okay, so she's still alive in the eighties? And still wants revenge against Zurikan? Okay, then in order to maintain 5E continuity, killing Sinestra off is out of the question. Hmmm. I'll have to modify that proposed section. Sinestra has been expelled from Zurikan and her cult has been destroyed, and so, she visits her former allies Baron Blitzkrieg and the Ace of Blades in Paraguay. They offer her a deal.
Incidentally, how does this sound as a plot point? Does the Baron Blitzkrieg that appears in the 1980s 5E JSA story "Blitzkrieg" have to be the original? What if the original Baron Blitzkrieg and his wife Ace of Blades have a son in the early fifties and that son, Baron Blitzkrieg II, is the one who appears in the 5E JSA story? Otherwise, without suspended animation or anti-ageing pharmaceuticals and technology, isn't it asking a lot to believe that it is Baron Blitzkrieg I forty years later, when the original would be in his eighties?
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Post by DocQuantum on Feb 10, 2024 0:53:59 GMT
No need for those "real-world" explanations when super-powered people have an advantage when it comes to aging in comics. This is a demonstrable fact if you look at the JSA and other golden age heroes who have appeared past the golden age on Earth-2 (I'm not counting '90s comics at all). Sure, there's the Ian Karkull radiation keeping them young explanation, but it doesn't cover all the golden agers. Johnny Quick, for example, looked pretty young and spry even in the late 1970s despite being active since 1941. I think the metagene actually retards most effects of aging.
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