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 w...