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Seven Soldiers of Victory

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Official Team Name

Seven Soldiers of Victory

Team Aliases

7 Soldiers of Victory; Law's Legionnaires

Status

Defunct

Identity

Secret

Universe

New Earth

Affiliations

Former Members

Batgirl (Barbara Gordon); Blackhawk; Bulleteer; Boy Blue; the Crimson Avenger (Lee Travis); Deadman; Dyna-Mite (Daniel Dunbar); Dyno-Mite Dan; Frankenstein; Gimmix; Klarion Bleak; Manhattan Guardian; Mento; Metamorpho; Mister Miracle (Shilo Norman); the Shining Knight (Sir Justin); Shining Knight (Gardner Grayle); Shining Knight (Ystina); the Spider (Tom Ludlow Hallaway; Spyder/"I, Spyder"; the Star-Spangled Kid (Sylvester Pemberton); Adam Strange; Stripesy; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; TNT; Vigilante (Greg Sanders); the Whip (Shelly Gaynor); Zatanna

Origin

Origin

The Seven Soldiers of Victory, also known as Law's Legionaires, were a team of crimefighters. They debuted in the winter of 1941.

Creators

Mort Weisinger, Mort Meskin, Grant Morrison

First appearance

Seven Soldiers of Victory #1
(December, 2006)

History

Original incarnation

Their 1940s line-up consisted of (at different times) the Crimson Avenger, the Star-Spangled Kid and his bodyguard Stripesy, Vigilante, Stuff, the Chinatown Kid, the Shining Knight, TNT and his sidekick Dyna-Mite (Daniel Dunbar), and the Spider. They were assisted by Wing (the Crimson Avenger's young ward), the Squire (Shining Knight's sidekick) and Winged Victory (Shining Knight's horse).

The team was active in the United States during the Second World War, fighting villains like Black Star, the Iron Hand, the Dummy, and the time-traveling Doctor Doome. While fighting Doctor Doome they were inadvertently transported forward in time, where they were briefly captured by the Appelaxians in their attempted invasion of the Earth - an event which led to the founding of the Justice League of America. Reasoning that their presence in the future was potentially dangerous to time itself, the Seven Soldiers return to their own time immediately afterward.

However, in October 1948, the Iron Hand attacked the world with his Nebula Man and demanded tribute. The Seven Soldiers of Victory charged into battle and vanished, apparently killed.

However, decades later the Justice League and the Justice Society of America teamed up to deal with the return of the Iron Hand, and it was revealed that the cosmic powers of the Nebula Man had scattered the heroes in the past. Splitting up to catch them, the Justice League and the Justice Society helped the Seven Soldiers return to the present and save the day.

Now living out of time, the various members of the team have gone their separate ways. The Crimson Avenger never recovered from the death of his young ward Wing, and was killed saving a city from a bomb. The Shining Knight spent decades trawling the time-stream for Swamp Thing after he went missing, after which he retired to ancient Camelot. The Star-Spangled Kid joined the Justice Society and was eventually killed by Solomon Grundy. Stripesy is currently active with the Justice Society as STRIPE. The Vigilante attempted to formed a new Seven Soldiers but was killed by the Sheeda.

Second Incarnation

During the Silver Age event, Batgirl formed a team called the Seven Soldiers of Victory. It consisted of herself, Deadman, Metamorpho, Blackhawk, Mento, Adam Strange and Shining Knight. It fought valiantly but disbanded soon afterwards.

Seven Soldiers Megaseries

In 2005, Grant Morrison began writing an event titled "Seven Soldiers", in which seven heroes fought off a paranormal invasion force from the future, the Sheeda, without ever actually meeting, a team that was not a team so their enemies would not know to destroy them but each critical to the success of Earth's defense. All seven of the characters involved (Shining Knight, Manhattan Guardian, Zatanna, Klarion the Witch Boy, Mister Miracle, Bulleteer and Frankenstein) remained active after the Sheeda's invasion. Most of them appeared in Infinite Crisis, and several story elements from the Seven Soldiers stories lead into in Final Crisis.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: None known.
Weapons: None known.

Notes

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Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• 3 Appearances of Seven Soldiers of Victory (New Earth)
• 2 Images that include Seven Soldiers of Victory (New Earth)
• Team Gallery: Seven Soldiers of Victory (New Earth)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Seven Soldiers of Victory (New Earth)

Links and References

• Discuss Seven Soldiers of Victory (New Earth) on the forums
• Cosmic Teams: SSOV
• Annotations to Morrison's Megaseries
  

Footnotes

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