Thursday, November 10, 2005
Your Superhero History Moment
The Victory Legion was the first real superteam in the world, created by the American known as The Public Spirit. It was started in September of 1942, after The Public Spirit conferred with Allied commanders and gathered a group of superbeings from the beseiged nations struggling against the Axis. The Victory Legion consisted of John Bull and Britannica (England), Liberte and the Partisan II (France), Minuteman, Swift Sword, and The Public Spirit from America.
The group fought the Nazi menace alongside others of the time, such as The Quantum Knight and Squire, Sentinel, Golden Angel, Nightingale, The Crimson Comet and Starbolt. They made tremendous inroads against the Nazis and served as the prototype superteam from which all others have taken their cue, including The Minutemen, the Night Watch, and the Silver Seven. All good teams have an arch villain, and theirs was Wulfgang Krieger, later known as Baron Blackreich. Krieger was obsessed with creating a Master Race, and most of the world's so-called Super Soldier formulas have their origin in his groundbreaking work. Doktor Blud used his Formula X as a template for creating the Psychomen and the Monster Batallion. Despite most reports, Krieger was never a member of the Thule Society, having litle use for magic and mysticism though his most important work was done with the reanimation of dead tissue. His infamous Necro-Nazis terrorized battlefields as the Reich began it's slow disintergration and Hitler authorized more and more outlandish schemes to regain lost territory.
The Victory Legion met it's end in Castle Blackreich in final battle with Wulfgang Krieger. Liberte shot and killed Partisan, and it was revealed she was in fact a plant by the Baron! She was actually a top Nazi shapeshifter spy named Sobriquet; she had killed the real Liberte months earlier and replaced her. Though they won the day, the loss and betrayal eventually led to the end of the team in 1946. In 1948, The Public Spirit finally retired and the world's first superhero team passed into memory.
