#sylvester pemberton

[halbarryislife]

Who could drive the curse out of this family? These people are glued to ruin. (in/sp.)

[evilhorse]

Doctor Fate will not live through the night!

(All-Star Comics #62)

[dcdreamblog]

Seeing you talk about the Crimson Avenger reminded me, what can you tell us about the Seven Soldiers of Victory? I’ve seen different article talk about different members and the number don’t always add up. I’ve seen something about a guy named the Spider, one article even says TNT and Dyna-Mite were members!

And sometimes there’s eight of them?

Oh you will regret this. I actually did my thesis on the 7 Soldiers (Specifically ABOUT the historical mysteries of their membership), you can see on the selfie they posted that I have a decal for them on my phone. This question is a big one. So let's cover what we know...

(Group Photo of the 7 Soldiers from the Squadron's '43 Yearbook. I have cut out the members on the left for rhetorical purposes) This is what I would call the 5 core, inarguable members of the 7 Soldiers.

Crimson Avenger: Lee Travis, newspaper publisher, the first mystery man (Fun fact, because of the drastic difference in costuming. It wasn't until after Travis' death that it was confirmed this Avenger and the original Avenger were the same person) Shining Knight: Sir Justin, displaced knight from the Arthurian era Vigilante: The rider of the purple sage. Frontier mystery man secretly country-western artist Greg Saunders Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy: Industrial heir Sylvester Pemberton and his bodyguard/chauffeur Patrick Dugan. This is the easy part. Below is the hard part.

Two core team members weren't counted for unfortunately obvious reasons for the era...

(Crimson Avenger and Wing at a Squadron Function in 1942) Wing How, the Crimson Avenger's chauffeur and later confidante/sidekick. A Chinese immigrant to Travis' native New York

(Vigilante and Stuff riding down the streets of Independence, MI. 1940) Stuff, The Chinatown Kid. AKA Danny Leong. Another Chinese immigrant this time adopted by country western star Greg Saunders, secretly The Vigilante How and Leong, being Chinese "tag alongs" which was already a loaded trope by the 1940s were often treated more like accessories than real members of the team by media and the public. If you want to know the other 2 soldiers that were on the team when it was founded to lend it that name. Its those two. But it got more complicated than that. 2. The 7 Soldiers gained new members during the War but their name never changed

(TNT and Dyna-Mite at the DC Courthouse after receiving a medal from the city) TNT and Dyna-Mite, DC natives and perhaps the most personally popular superheroes who were not members of the Justice Society during the War years. Owing to their personal popularity in the nation's capital. WHEN they became members of the Soldiers is unknown but they were inducted by December of 1941 at the latest as they partcipated in the "Black Star" case It is unknown whether or not Dyna-Mite remained associated with the team after TNT's tragic death in the line of duty in early 1942. And then there's..him...

(The Spider, glimpsed on the edge of a billboard in his native St Louis) The Spider, AKA Thomas Hallaway. For fairly obvious reasons is no longer concerned part of the superhero community. He was, in fact, an unrepentant criminal who used the cover of a superhero persona as an alibi. It wasn't until post war that his treachery was discovered when he attempted to assassinate both Jay and Joan Garrick, losing his life in the attempt under mysterious circumstances. In the modern day it was discovered that The Spider himself was responsible for the 7 Soldiers' disappearance post war, having been in cahoots with perennial enemy The Iron Hand. The Soldiers were scattered through time and only recovered during one of the early cases of the Justice League, leading to the heroic sacrifice of Wing How to save the lives of his teammates When he became associated with the Soldiers is unknown and he is retroactively cast out from his membership in the Soldiers specifically and the All Star Squadron in general save for the most dry of historical perspectives. Conclusion: If you want me to answer who the "7 Soldiers" were. To me (noting that this is a personal opinion, not a historical fact). It's The Crimson Avenger, Wing, Vigilante, Stuff, Shining Knight, Star Spangled-Kid and Stripesy. With knowledge that TNT and Dyna-Mite were also members because what's in a name anyway? The Spider, by his own action has been stricken from any claim to any membership of any heroic organization.

[dailyjsa]

JSA Returns: Star-Spangled Comics #1 cover by Dave Johnson

[wanderingmind867]

I just thought of how I would have handled the Justice Society in the 70s: I would adamantly refuse to kill anyone (besides maybe batman and catwoman of earth-two), and I would probably replace the main JSA with eight young, new members: Robin (Dick Grayson), Speedy (Roy Harper), Star-Spangled Kid, Sandy the Golden Boy, Power Girl, The Huntress, Merry, Girl of 1,000 Gimmicks and Batgirl (Bette Kane). Before you say something about Bette Kane: don't tell me she didn't exist on Earth-Two. They establish that Kathy Kane (Batwoman) existed on earth-two. If you get one, you get the other. It counts. So, yeah. This is probably how i'd do it. And i'd then probably add Infinity Inc as it's own separate thing a few years later.

[usedgingertwinkhole]

Okay DC fandom I have one request:

Someone make this and tell me if it's Actually Bad

Also this one

[infinityinc4ever]

One of my all-time favorite covers. The first appearance of Power Girl!

[kryptonbabe]

Clark??? You don't go around saying things like that!!

We are so used to blaming Barry for altering timelines and messing up the space-time continuum and Superman is such a polite person that we often ignore that he tried to mess with the past a hundred times already

From All-star Comics #64 (1977)

[thrakaboom]

Look at Sly's snatched waist and flirty thigh highs.

Skyman has been dead for 36 slutty, slutty years

[theflashzoom]

Infinity Inc Summer Swimsuits Cards

Hope all of you have a good summer holidays.

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Were Jesse and Sandy members of Infinity, Inc. now? That’s pretty cool actually.

[halbarryislife]

did you mean: manipulate, mansplain, malewife

[google / template by @cal-kestis]

[evilhorse]

All-Star Comics #58

[dcdreamblog]

I did study on superhero legacies and the starman one is probably second only to the hawkman one.

Excluding its own members it also incorporates the star-spangled kids, gimmick girls, stripesies, phantom ladies and manhunters through genetics or passing down the torch.

What are your opinions on legacies that intertwine with each other?

Boy-oh-boy are you NOT kiddin'

(An unofficial "Star Family Tree" I found online)

Keep in mind, this is just the family tree that we KNOW of! There's still some secret IDs on this list and it doesn't cover anyone who isn't publically a superhero or something of that kind so there's almost certainly massive branches missing here.

Not sure why you would ask my "opinion" on what is, ultimately, people's private lives. If it works for them, it works for them. It is not my job to comment on who is doing what with whom when the door is locked and the spandex is off. Now, if you want me to wonder why family trees like this one might HAPPEN in this business, I think its obvious. Same reason firefighters tend to marry firefighters. Not only are superheroes most likely to be around other superheroes a lot of the time, when you get to the point in life where you are relying on people, trusting them to have your back when things get darkest, having to give up your control to someone else. One can only imagine the kind of bonds that creates.

Superheroes often live short lives, and the also often come from broken families. It's only nature that when they find that feeling of comfort in one another that they follow it as far as it will go.

[dailyjsa]

Leading Comics #2

Writer: Bill Finger

Artist: Mort Meskin

Inker: Mort Meskin

[wanderingmind867]

You know, we already have four teens in the 40s and 50s who could've been made the Earth-Two Teen Titans equivalent. Robin (Dick Grayson), Speedy (Roy Harper), the Star-Spangled Kid and Sandy, the Golden Boy. All four of these characters already existed on Earth-Two, yet I don't know if we address all of them. I'm pretty sure everyone forgets that there was a unique Green Arrow and Speedy on Earth-Two, but it's true. They were seperate from their Earth-One counterparts, and therefore Speedy could definitely have been a part of the JSA stuff. If the Star-Spangled Kid could transition from the Seven Soldiers of Victory to the JSA, why not Roy Harper too? And hell, Earth-Two's Roy Harper probably never had any drug problems. Their Oliver Queen never grew the goatee and lost his fortune. They were too busy being lost in time for a significant portion of time (as detailed in Justice League of America #100-102). So, you know, they could have done something with him. But no, instead they forgot about him. I really wonder if anyone at DC was coordinating anything to make sense. Because the Earth-Two stuff always reeks to me of missed potential.