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Re: Jab's Builds! (Black Widow! Master Mind Excello! Dynamic Man!)

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M4C8 wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2017 2:55 pm Did you read the 'Mystery Men' title from a few years back? it was abut a group of vigilante heroes operating in the 1930's. Your WW2 posts just reminded me it existed.
Nope- never seen that before. Who released it?
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The Blazing Skull

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THE BLAZING SKULL (Mark Anthony Todd, aka The Smoking Head)
Created By:
Unknown
First Appearance: Mystic Comics #5 (March 1941)
Role: Golden Age Hero
Group Affiliations: The Defenders (Initiative Team), The Invaders
PL 9 (132)
STRENGTH
7 STAMINA 7 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 9 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Close Combat (Unarmed) 2 (+11)
Deception 2 (+5)
Expertise (Foreign Correspondent) 5 (+8)
Investigation 4 (+7)
Perception 2 (+5)
Stealth 1 (+5)

Advantages:
Improved Critical 2 (Unarmed, Fire Blast), Ranged Attack 5

Powers:
"Skull Men Training"
"Invisible Skin"
Enhanced Skills 4: Intimidation 4 (+7) [2]
Enhanced Advantages 4: Daze & Fascinate (Intimidation), Quick Change, Startle [4]

"Healing Factor" Regeneration 4 [4]
Immunity 1 (Aging) [1]
Fire Blast 9 [18]

Offense:
Unarmed +11 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Fire Blast +8 (+8 Ranged Damage, DC 23)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +9 (DC 19), Parry +9 (DC 19), Toughness +7, Fortitude +7, Will +6

Complications:
Responsibility (Champion of Freedom)- The Blazing Skull must fight for freedom wherever he goes.
Enemy (The Nazis)- Horrified by what the Nazis are doing, Todd dons a flaming mask to fight against their oppression.

Total: Abilities: 80 / Skills: 16--8 / Advantages: 7 / Powers: 29 / Defenses: 8 (132)

-Resembling Ghost Rider, The Blazing Skull is in fact a Golden Age hero- he was chosen by the mysterious Skull Men to be their Champion of Freedom. They give him various abilities, but he didn't really show up a whole lot until the modern era, where his bad-ass looking appearance (hell, a SKULL-FACED GUY failed to take off as a character? Only in the '40s...). He showed up in modern times, having failed to age at all, rescued by U.S. Agent to join the modern incarnation of The Invaders (a book that... really did nothing and just vanished). He's got that mish-mash of Golden Age powers, plus a Fire Blast which came later- in his own era, he was probably only a PL 8 guy with no Blast. Also he can make his skin Invisible.
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Black Widow! Master Mind Excello! Dynamic Man!)

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Jabroniville wrote: Sat Apr 15, 2017 6:28 am
M4C8 wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2017 2:55 pm Did you read the 'Mystery Men' title from a few years back? it was abut a group of vigilante heroes operating in the 1930's. Your WW2 posts just reminded me it existed.
Nope- never seen that before. Who released it?
Marvel.
'A shared universe, like any fictional construct, hinges on suspension of disbelief. When continuity is tossed away, it tatters the construct. Undermines it'
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Master Mind Excello! Dynamic Man! Golden Age Heroes!)

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Goldar wrote: Sat Apr 15, 2017 2:59 am
HalloweenJack wrote: Fri Apr 14, 2017 9:22 pm that isn't Nick Charles....
Ahahaha. I see what you did there... ;)
I'm just glad someone got it :D
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Excello! Dynamic Man! Golden Age Heroes! The Torch!)

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How many flame-headed guys does Marvel have, anyway? There's Dormammu, the Ghost Riders, the Blazing Skull..And that's not counting the Human Torches, whose entire bodies are on fire.
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Jack Frost

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JACK FROST I
Created By:
Stan Lee & Frank Giacoca
First Appearance: U.S.A. Comics #1 (Aug. 1941)
Role: Failed Golden Age Character
Group Affiliations: The Liberty Legion
PL 8 (112)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 7 AGILITY 3
FIGHTING 6 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 1 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Expertise (World War II Veteran) 4 (+5)
Insight 2 (+4)
Perception 2 (+4)

Advantages:
Ranged Attack 2, Set-Up, Teamwork

Powers:
"The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway" Immunity 1 (Cold) [1]
Movement 1 (Sure-Footed) (Flaws: Limited to Ice) [1]

"An Ice Person"
"Snow & Sleet" Environment 5 (Impede Movement 2, Visibility 2, Cold 2) (30) -- [34]
  • AE: Create Ice Objects 8 (Feats: Innate) (17)
  • AE: "Strong Winds" Features 2: Create Winds- Deflects Arrows, Puts Out Flames, etc. (2)
  • AE: "Giant Snowball" Blast 8 (Feats: Accurate) (17)
  • AE: "Ice Slick" Affliction 8 (Strength or Agility; Hindered/Prone) (Extras: Area- 30ft. Burst) (Flaws: Limited Degree) (8)
Offense:
Unarmed +6 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Snowball +8 (+8 Ranged Damage, DC 23)
Initiative +3

Defenses:
Dodge +9 (DC 19), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +7, Fortitude +7, Will +6

Complications:
Responsibility (Unknown Origins)- Even Jack seems unaware.
Motivation (Heroism)- Jack fights against the Nazi forces, despite having no nation of his own.

Total: Abilities: 56 / Skills: 8--4 / Advantages: 4 / Powers: 36 / Defenses: 12 (112)

-Jack Frost is one of the earliest creations of Stan Lee, but is pretty-well forgotten- he has a Mysterious Past (before that became a cliche), simply awakening in the Arctic one day with ice powers. He fought in World War II, and joined the Liberty Legion (a Retcon created later on). He reappears in modern times, explaining that he'd melded with an "ice worm" in order to neutralize it, and has finally been freed. Here, Thor theorized that Jack might be part-Frost Giant. However, Jack has made very few appearances since then. A second Jack Frost appeared during the 1960s, but he quickly changed his name to the much-cooler-sounding "Blizzard".

-Jack is PL 8, like most "established", super-powered World War II heroes- he's functionally Iceman-Lite, doing a few different Cold-Type things.
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Dakor

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DAKOR THE MAGICIAN (Alan Dakor)
Created By:
Will Harr & Jack Binder
First Appearance: Mystic Comics #1 (March 1940)
Role: Failed Golden Age Character, Magic Hero
Group Affiliations: None
PL 8 (135)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 7 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 4 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Athletics 5 (+7)
Deception 2 (+5)
Expertise (Magic) 9 (+13)
Investigation 4 (+7)
Perception 3 (+6)
Stealth 1 (+5)

Advantages:
Ranged Attack 4, Ritualist

Powers:
"Magical Might"
"Appears in a Cloud of Smoke" Teleport 10 (Extras: Accurate, Extended) (40) -- [48]
  • AE: "Manifest Lions" Summon 5 (Extras: Horde, 2 Minions +2) (25)
  • AE: Transform Anything to Anything Else 4 (Extras: Ranged) (24)
  • AE: "Propels Swords into the Chests of Enemies" Move Object 5 (10)
  • AE: "Transform Others" Affliction 8 (Fort; Dazed/Stunned/Transformed) (Extras: Ranged) (16)
  • AE: Environment 5 (Impede Movement) (5)
  • AE: "Hypnotism" Affliction 8 (Will; Entranced/Compelled/Controlled) (Extras: Perception-Ranged +2) (Flaws: Vision-Dependent) (16)
  • AE: Mind-Reading 8 (16)
  • AE: Force Field 5 (5)
Senses 1 (Danger Sense) [1]

Offense:
Unarmed +7 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Hypnotism -- (+8 Perception-Ranged Affliction, DC 18)
Transform Others +8 (+8 Ranged Affliction, DC 18)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +8 (DC 18), Parry +8 (DC 18), Toughness +3 (+8 Force Field), Fortitude +4, Will +6

Complications:
Responsibility (Magical Power)

Total: Abilities: 60 / Skills: 24--12 / Advantages: 5 / Powers: 49 / Defenses: 9 (135)

-One of many magic-themed heroes to appear after the success of Mandrake the Magician in newspaper strips. He only had a couple of appearances, but was very powerful. For some reason, all that talent went into him acting as a mercenary. Hilariously, he was used in Matt Fraction's FF series, as Scott Lang went back in time using The Watcher's equipment, hired the guy, and brought him into modern times to neutralize Doctor Doom's magical powers, allowing the heroes to bring him low- Dakor pointed out that for all Doom's skill, he'd gotten magic "the easy way".
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Excello! Dynamic Man! Golden Age Heroes! The Torch!)

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Man, magicians in comics always have such goofy names, like Fragon or Kaluu or Xandu. Dakor sounds like they just made it up off the top of their head.
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*hurries to get copyright on "Joe, the magic guy" *
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Re: Jab's Builds! (Excello! Dynamic Man! Golden Age Heroes! The Torch!)

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KorokoMystia wrote: Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:07 pm Man, magicians in comics always have such goofy names, like Fragon or Kaluu or Xandu. Dakor sounds like they just made it up off the top of their head.
Stage magicians often grabbed names that were "exotic", yet non-specific in origin (Ehrich Weiss becoming "Houdini"). Though just as many simply had weird, European-ish names.
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V-Battalion

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THE V-BATTALION
Created By:
Kurt Busiek & Mark Bagley
First Appearance: The Incredible Hulk #449 (1997)... sort of.
Role: S.H.I.E.L.D.-Lite, Clandestine Operators of Justice

-The V-Battalion was introduced via Retcon as a kind of global peace-keeping agency- sort of a more-clandestine version of S.H.I.E.L.D. It was formed around John Watkins, a forgotten Golden Age character named "Citizen V". When Baron Zemo's Thunderbolts were formed from the membership of the old Masters of Evil, he used Citizen V's identity as his own, copying the name because his FATHER had murdered the original back in World War II. The group was nearly-dismantled by the Heinrich Zemo, but a series of Golden Age heroes formed together and re-made it: The Destroyer, The Silver Scorpion and The Iron Cross. Their mission was initially to hunt down Nazi war criminals.

-This group stayed active for decades, and were of course rather surprised when Helmut Zemo showed up calling himself "Citizen V" and proclaiming that he was a descendent of the original (the Battalion had in fact brought up Watkins' descendent themselves). They had a "mole" put into the Mayor's office, and was spying on the Thunderbolts' liaison Dallas Riordan- soon it was uncovered that the T-Bolts were ex-villains, and Riordan was fired... but she was then hired on as a Citizen herself, and hunted down Zemo (she would soon quit, after their demands became too much). Watkins' grandson, John III, awoke from a coma, but it was revealed that he actually had ZEMO's mind in his body (Zemo had previously been decapitated by the new Scourge of the Underworld) thanks to a prank by Techno (who is prone to that- he surgically-altered The Beetle into a black guy as a gag, too). The V Battalion lost some members, lost their ship and more, and finally Roger "Destroyer" Aubrey retired and left Jim Hammond in charge. And since Hammond tends to pop in and out of comics at random, the Battalion basically disappeared (to prove my point, check out the fact that Hammond is now a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent instead).
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Golden Age Citizen V

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If this is what the Allies look like, is it too late to join the Axis?


CITIZEN V (John Watkins)
Created By:
Ben Thompson & Stan Lee
First Appearance: Daring Mystery Comics #4 (Jan. 1942)
Role: Two-Fisted Hero
Group Affiliations: The V-Battalion
PL 6 (105)
STRENGTH
2 STAMINA 3 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 9 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Acrobatics 2 (+6)
Athletics 4 (+6)
Deception 3 (+6)
Expertise (War Hero) 4 (+6)
Insight 3 (+5)
Intimidation 2 (+5)
Investigation 5 (+7)
Perception 4 (+6)
Stealth 2 (+6)
Vehicles 3 (+5)

Advantages:
Agile Feint, Close Combat, Improved Defenses, Ranged Attack 7

Offense:
Unarmed +9 (+2 Damage, DC 17)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +9 (DC 19), Parry +9 (DC 19), Toughness +3, Fortitude +5, Will +5

Complications:
Motivation (Stopping the Nazis)
Relationship (Paulette Brazee)- She gave birth to his son, John Jr.

Total: Abilities: 58 / Skills: 32--16 / Advantages: 10 / Powers: 12 / Defenses: 9 (105)

-And yes, Citizen V is an actual World War II-era superhero published by Timely Comics. Okay, so he only has like two appearances in the entire Golden Age- he was still a thing, which is why Kurt Busiek used him (albeit with a totally different look that the dumb "guy in brown uniform with a V on it" look). His career is rather minor, largely only important because he founded an organization that became a thing in Thunderbolts. He is one of the few Golden Age Marvel Heroes not to survive the war- having been strangled by Baron Heinrich Zero during the Warsaw Uprising. A minor Golden Ager, I view Citizen V as a sadder version of The Patriot or The Spirit of '76- a mere PL 6 in a world of PL 7-8 heroes.
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Modern Citizen V

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CITIZEN V (John Watkins III)
Created By:
Fabian Nicieza & Patrick Zircher
First Appearance: Thunderbolts #45 (Dec. 2000)
Role: Legacy Character
Group Affiliations: None
PL 8 (112)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 9 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 2 PRESENCE 3

Skills: 
Acrobatics 4 (+8)
Athletics 5 (+8)
Deception 2 (+5)
Expertise (Secret Agent) 5 (+7)
Insight 2 (+4)
Investigation 3 (+5)
Perception 3 (+5)
Ranged Combat (Knives) 4 (+12)
Stealth 1 (+5)
Technology 2 (+4)
Vehicles 1 (+5)

Advantages: 
Equipment 3 (Gear, V-Wing Glider, etc.), Improved Aim, Improved Critical (Sword), Improved Smash, Improved Defense, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 4

Powers:
"Adamantium Sword" (Feats: Unbreakable) (Flaws: Easily Removable) [9]
Strength-Damage +4 (Feats: Improved Critical) (Extras: Penetrating 7) (12 points)

Offense:
Unarmed +9 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Sword +9 (+7 Damage, DC 22)
Throwing Knives +12 (+4 Ranged Damage, DC 19)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +11 (DC 21), Parry +11 (DC 21), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +5

Complications:
Motivation (Justice)
Responsibility (The V-Battalion)

Total: Abilities: 62 / Skills: 32--16 / Advantages: 12 / Powers: 9 / Defenses: 13 (112)

-John Watkins III is the grandson of the Golden Age character, and was bred to be Citizen V. However, trapped in a coma, he had his body taken over by Baron Zemo for a while- after some super-stuff happened, John ended up back in control, but his time in comics was limited, and he hasn't been seen in years.
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Captain Terror

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CAPTAIN TERROR (Dan Kane)
Created By:
Mike Suchorsky
First Appearance: USA Comics #2 (Nov. 1941)
Role: Golden Age Hero
Group Affiliations: None
PL 7 (92)
STRENGTH
3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 4
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 2 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Athletics 4 (+7)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 3 (+11)
Deception 2 (+5)
Investigation 3 (+6)
Perception 3 (+6)
Stealth 1 (+5)
Vehicles 4 (+8)

Advantages:
Benefit 3 (Wealth), Fast Grab, Improved Critical (Unarmed), Ranged Attack 6

Offense:
Unarmed +11 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Initiative +4

Defenses:
Dodge +10 (DC 20), Parry +10 (DC 20), Toughness +4, Fortitude +5, Will +5

Complications:
Enemy (Nazi Germany)
Secret (Identity)

Total: Abilities: 62 / Skills: 20--10 / Advantages: 11 / Powers: 0 / Defenses: 11 (94)

-As a kid, I actually really liked this character- showing up as a generic guy alongside Captain Wonder and The Black Marvel, he had the coolest overall look to Young Jab- a very dark red suit with a yellow handkerchief. Appearing in only five comics during the Golden Age, he was a wealthy man who faked having a weak heart as his "cover" for engaging in heroics within the American border. His friends included a pre-Alpha Flight Eugene "Puck" Judd, he fought in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists, and faked his death against a Spanish villain. He later returned to fight Nazis, but retired again. The character was taken out of the mothballs eons later within the pages of Avengers, as Izzy "Smasher" Kane, initially the (implied) granddaughter of Dan Dare (her last name was "Dare" at the time, and her grandfather was named "Dan"), had her origins switched to being the granddaughter of Dan Kane, for trademark reasons. Here, he was a tired old man, but still remarkably tough, and had some sweet moment with the kid he always wanted to reach for the stars.
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