EARTH-2: SEVEN SOLDIERS OF VICTORY, “Truel” #1 (of 7)
Plotter: CaptCleghorn
Writer: HOWARD CHAYKIN
Art: TONY HARRIS
7SV: “The Black Dahlia”
January 1947. It’s been nearly a year and a half since the end of WW2 and America is getting back to business. No war, no depression. Life is looking optimistic, except for one murder mutilated and bisected young woman in Los Angeles. Helping out the Los Angeles Police is the Vigilante (secret identity – Greg Saunders), celebrity adventurer with a music career. However what catches the Vigilante’s eye are certain characters with known nazi and Soviet connections. It turns out that the Soviets have a team of agents called Geroi Budushchego, or “Heroes of the Future”. Remaining nazis have put together operatives known as “Kinder von hitler” or Children of you know who.
What do the Russians and Germans want? Greg does what he sees as the only possible thing and calls his team, the Seven Soldiers of Victory. Vigilante, cowboy detective, Green Arrow and Speedy, archers extraordinaire, Star-Spangled Kid and Stripsey, America come to life, The Crimson, noir adventurer and his sidekick Wing, and the Shining Knight, time lost knight from King Arthur’s Roundtable. Can three teams solve a grisly homicide or will their own differences blind them to what’s happening in the world around them?
32 PGS./ Rated T for Teen Readers...$3.99