WW2 Super Heroes

[joroas]

I want to do the whole super hero thing, but I don't really want to do the US city thing.  So, besides the captain and Bucky, that I luckily bought last year, what other fictional super heroes could/did work in a European theatre?

Sergeant Rock, obviously, but who else?
Any sources?

[postal]

do want marvel or dc.DC has a story that the spear of desity stops super heroes from going overseas but since batman and sgt rock dont have super powers they can.Now marvel you had two groups that fought the axis THE INVADERS and LIBERTY LEIGION.I well get back to you on all there names I not able remember them all at this time.

[joroas]

Great, I hadn't expected a choice.  I have the Spear of Destiny model from West Wind, that opens up more options...........

[Steve F]

Captain America is a Marvel character.  As well as the groups mentioned by Postal, Marvel (strictly "Timely" - the company kept changing its name) comics of WW2 also set the Sub-Mariner, the original Human Torch, the Destroyer and others against the Nazis.  Since WW2, the main other Marvel comic set in the period has been Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos.

DC came up with the "Spear of Destiny" thing in the 1970s to explain why Superman hadn't ended the War in an afternoon.  I think there was an equivalent Japanese artefact too.  But back in the 1940s, their superheroes did sometimes fight the Axis: Wonder Woman, for example, came up against Japanese in the Pacific and U-boats (and, of course, the first run of the TV series was set in WW2).  In fact, there was actually a 2-page Superman strip in Look magazine which he did end WW2 in an afternoon by arresting both Hitler and Stalin and putting them on trial before the League of Nations.  Innocent days!

Roy Thomas, who created The Invaders for Marvel in the 1970s, drawing together all their WW2-era superheroes, did the same for DC in the 1980s with All-Star Squadron and the Young All-Stars.  DC also once had a parallel world called Earth-X where the Nazis had won WW2 and were being opposed by a group of super-heroes called the Freedom Fighters, whose rights DC had acquired from Quality Comics.

Over the years, DC has also published many originally non-Superhero WW2-set comics, which have now been more or less integrated into the regular DC Universe.  As well as Sgt Rock, look out for The Losers, Mlle Marie, The Haunted Tank, Hellman's Hellcats and Weird War Stories.

American comic books are preposterously well-documented on Wikipedia, so you'll find loads of info - and lots of links on to other characters - there by looking up any of these names.  Note that some of the names have been reused.  The Losers has been recycled as a modern-day spy story, and The Haunted Tank has a sequal set in Iraq, for example.

[Weird WWII]

Just in case you are looking for a Rock mini for your gaming.



http://www.whattheminiatures.com/allies-store.html

Brian

[Westfalia Chris]

I think every US Superhero was conscripted at one time or the other to aid the Allied war effort. My favourite is Wolverton's Spacehawk fighting "The Mighty Moosler", Hitler and Mussolini rolled into one... 

There's a lot of fascinating wartime comic book covers to be found over at Superdickery.com:

Superdickery: Propaganda Extravaganza

Some plain disturbing, but I'm sure you'll find one Superhero you'll like.

[Mac Finn]

Hey Joras

I had a great link that I found off of the boards that I tried to dig up... sadly it is no longer active, so from a scattered memory and the evil Wiki I bring you some mentioned before and something new...

The optimistic squad of the All Winners Squad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Winners_Squad

The Invaders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invaders_%28comics%29#World_War_II_team

A single hero instead of a group but still...
Lord Falsworth aka The Union Jack  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack_%28comics%29#Union_Jack_.28James_Montgomery_Falsworth.29

The V Battalion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Battalion


Something that would be cool even though some canon has it being formed after WWII:

S.H.I.E.L.D. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.H.I.E.L.D.

and sadly my memory has failed even though it did not scratch the surface 

[white knight]

There's also the Crimson nun (can't post pics due to swastika's).  Also look up: Warrior Nun Areala: Rituals #4 for a good cover illustration of the character.

[Commander Vyper]

Just in case you are looking for a Rock mini for your gaming.



http://www.whattheminiatures.com/allies-store.html

Brian

There's also this one from BAM (now warlord), I've got it, nice miniature:



The Commander

[joroas]

Great, thanks Guys.  Also forgot Baby Hellboy......

Are any of these available as figures from Heroclix, I assume that the German ones aren't.  I have the Heroclix Hellbaby and the Cappy and Buck figures from the LAF offer.  I have the Spear of Destiny from West wind. Heroclix do the main characters: Batman, Superman, Wonderwoman, etc.

[white knight]

Don't forget the heroclix Lobster Johnson.

You could also include Pulp figures' "Shadow" and Black Army Productions' "phantom" figures.

Most Golden age superheroes are available in heroclix form now.

What The !? Miniatures does some nazi supervillains.

And the superfigs range has a few figures that will work well too. I painted up their golem with machinegun in US colours and he looks great.

[postal]

http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50120
heres a link to reaper version of sgt rock I perfer what the sgt.
I have too post my MISS AMERICA AND THE WHIZZER.

[white knight]

Artizan does a Sgt. Rock too (called Sgt. Stone IIRC). I have the BAM one and the What The !? one and of all of them, I think only the What The !? Miniatures stands out as immediately recognisable.

[myincubliss]

Are any of these available as figures from Heroclix

DC heroclix had a sgt Rock too: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Heroclix-Cosmic-Justice-21-Sgt-Rock-Veteran_W0QQitemZ370336856790QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Toys_Wargames_RL?hash=item5639cbfad6

[scarabminiatures]

Perhaps unsurprisingly the Fury/Rock idea is on the Projekt X list as well as the Allies need some help!

I was thinking of a cigar chomping .30 cal/ .50 cal wielding from the hip kinda guy  with ammo belt strewn all over..