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"UNCOVERING SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES?
UNDER SOVIET ATTACK?
URGENTLY SEEKING ASSISTANCE?
SEND FOR...
🇺🇸 U.S.A. 🇺🇸
THE ULTIMATE SPECIAL AGENT!!"
PIC INFO: Spotlight on Ulysses Samson Armstrong, a.k.a., U.S.A., a.k.a., the Ultimate Special Agent, super-powered, costumed crime-fighter and an homage/pastiche of Marvel's Captain America. Created by Alan Moore & Rick Veitch for the "1963" comic-book series published by Image Comics.
LIFE PRIOR TO "1963"/ORIGIN: "Nothing is known about Ulysses Samson Armstrong's life prior to becoming U.S.A.
He became U.S.A. by the 1920's and a member of the Gangbusters.
During World War II in the 1940's, he fought Nazis as a member of the Victory Vanguard, along with the Fightin' Fury, King Zero, American Beauty, and the original Hypernaut, and met his future self from 1963, along with other members of the Tomorrow Syndicate. He was also best friends with Hypernaut since the war."
-- 1963/IMAGE COMICS WIKIA (Fandom)
POWERS
U.S.A. gets his powers from a substance called Vitamin Omega. The following powers include:
Enhanced Strength
Enhanced Durability: U.S.A. was able to withstand at least four gunshots to the chest.
Enhanced Reflexes
Decelerated Aging: U.S.A. has been a superhero since at least the 1920's.
Sources: https://imagecomics.fandom.com/wiki/Ulysses_Samson_Armstrong & https://comiconlinefree.net/1963/issue-3.
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