Uncle Sam and The Freedom Fighters

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UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS #1
Written by Justin Gray
& Jimmy Palmiotti
Art and cover by Daniel Acuña

This ain't your father's Freedom Fighters! Meet the all-new Phantom Lady, Doll Man, Human Bomb and the Ray - members of the government task force known as SHADE - in a new 8-issue miniseries based on concepts by Grant Morrison, written by the acclaimed team of Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray (Jonah Hex, Crisis Aftermath: Battle For Blüdhaven) and featuring the art of rising superstar Daniel Acuña (JLA and Outsiders covers)!
These Freedom Fighters are the country's first line of defense against super-powered threats and terrorists. But when the government has become corrupt, how far will they have to go to protect the country? And what of Uncle Sam? Has the embodiment of the spirit of America really been forced underground?
On sale July 19 • 1 of 8 • 32 pg

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So the tiny guy is the Doll Man. I wonder if the Ray, Human Bomb and the Phantom Lady are the originals.:thinking: The only one missing is the Black Condor.

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from the pages of newsarama....
previews of issue 1

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from the pages of newsarama...
below link to the interview of Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti....
http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/FreedomFighters/USFF_INT.html

preview of #1
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In the pages of Battle for Bludhaven, Major Force was the leader of SHADE, does that mean he's in the Freedom Fighters too?

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UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS #2

Written by Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti
Art and cover by Daniel Acuña
The Brave New World continues as the all-new Freedom Fighters set out on their latest mission - to arrest Uncle Sam!

On sale August 30 • 2 of 8 •
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I read somewhere that the Freedom Fighters were actually once part of SHADE, it's because of the mission to capture Uncle Sam that they broke away to form the New Freedom Fighters.

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UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS #3
Writtenby Jimmy Palmiotti & Jusin Gray
Art and cover by Daniel Acuña

On the run from S.H.A.D.E. agents, the Freedom Fighters make their way to the Arizona desert, home turf of Black Condor. But is this new metahuman friend or foe?

On sale September 27 • 3 of 8 •
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So there's a new Black Condor in town. I really like this new artist's style, especially the covers he did for Battle for Bludhaven and Outsiders, simply beautiful.

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i like the hairstyle of the new black condor...:D

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Come to think of it, his hairstyle reminds me of Northwind of the Infinity Inc., the adopted son of Hawkman. I wonder if this new Black Condor is indeed Northwind.

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UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS #4
Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Jusin Gray
Art and cover by Daniel Acuña

After a trial by fire in the Arizona desert, the Freedom Fighters find themselves on the run from the government that created them. And what will happen when Phantom Lady learns the horrible truth about her father, the newly elected president?

On sale October 25 • 4 of 8 •
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Hey I actually picked up the first issue of the original series from the 70s for a mere $2.

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uncle sam look cool lol.L-)

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UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS #5
Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Jusin Gray
Art and cover by Daniel Acuña

The covert agency SHADE unleashes a new metahuman threat that leaves the Freedom Fighters powerless! Can Uncle Sam save his team from certain doom?

On sale November 22 • 5 of 8
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[gogetter]

I like this series, hope they're release an ongoing series after the mini series wraps up.

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if the sales from the mini-series is good...most probably an on-going series for it later on...

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Think so far they've only been given a short lived ongoing series way back in the early 70s and that's it, not even a mini series until now.

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UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS #6
Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray
Art and cover by Daniel Acuña

Miss America has returned — but why are there two of her? And which one will spell certain doom for the Freedom Fighters? Meanwhile, Phantom Lady and Black Condor are sent on a mission that could forever alter the future of the team.

On sale December 27 • 6 of 8 •
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Miss America? Don't know much about her. :thinking:

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the only miss america which i know is from the international beauty pageant...:whistling

did a search in wikipedia....

Post-Crisis History

Joan Dale Trevor
In the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, in the late spring of 1941 on Liberty Island, reporter Joan Dale had a dream that the Statue of Liberty came to life and granted her the power to alter the nature of matter. Regardless of the dream, she created a colorful costume and became Miss America, one of America's first heroines. In truth, she had been abducted by the top secret government agency, Project M, and her powers were actually the result of a secret experiment. They believed the experiment to be a failure and had returned her to whence she had been taken, leaving her none the wiser. (Military Comics #1, Secret Origins #26)

Miss America debuts in Military Comics #1. Later that year, the Japanese would plot their attack on Pearl Harbor. Uncle Sam got wind of the attack and assembled a group of heroes to prevent it. This group, called the Freedom Fighters (with Hourman, the Invisible Hood, Magno, Neon the Unknown, and the Red Torpedo). The mission was doomed and all but Uncle Sam seemingly perished in the fight. Sam would later discover however that three of his allies had survived: Miss America among them. She was reclaimed Project M. (All-Star Squadron #31)

When Robotman and the Young All-Stars visited Project M, they discovered that Miss America was indeed alive, albeit comatose. A battle with the Ultra-Humanite broke out, which awakened Joan from her coma. She promptly returned to the defense of her country and in late May, 1942, she joined the Justice Society as the group's secretary. (Young All-Stars # 12-14, Annual #1).

Miss America and her husband, Admiral Derek Trevor, are the adoptive parents of the modern-day Fury (Hippolyta "Lyta" Trevor Hall), formerly of Infinity, Inc. In early post-Crisis stories, Miss America and the original Fury (Lyta's biological mother) were portrayed to have replaced Wonder Woman in several adventures of the Justice Society that Wonder Woman had originally been involved in. In post-Crisis continuity, Wonder Woman had not debuted until relatively recently, leaving several stories and origins in chaos. Miss America was said to have taken Wonder Woman's place as recording secretary of the JSA.

However, several months after Miss America joined the JSA, Wonder Woman debuted on the scene and also joined the JSA. It is still unclear how Hippolyta's membership affected Miss America's status with the JSA, if at all. (Wonder Woman v.2 #130-133)

Miss America was last seen in a flashback in JSA, where she was once more working with the Freedom Fighters.

Princess Diana
Later, as was shown in Phil Jimenez's run on Wonder Woman, Princess Diana had attempted to crossover into her own time after a dimension hopping adventure and had taken the mantle of Miss America (using her powers of disguse) to fight along side Queen Hippolyta (who had recently died in the present) in the 1940s.

Diana and Trevor Barnes leave Skartaris and arrive in Virginia in early October 1943. Leaving Trevor to watch the dinosaurs and Villainy Inc., Diana goes scouting, only to come upon a battle between Queen Clea (the one from 1943) and Hippolyta. Seeing Clea get the upper hand, Diana decides to intervene. To avoid damaging the timestream (too late), she disguises herself as "an obscure heroine during the war" - Miss America, and remembers that Hippolyta mentioned meeting her once. The two women trounce the Nazis and Clea, but one of the Nazis gets away, finds Trevor and takes Poseidon's Trident from him.

Later that same day, Hippolyta and Diana return to Washington, where Diana sees for herself the impact her mother had on the women of the city - or at least her neighborhood - including Hippolyta's roommate, Diana Prince. As night falls, Hippolyta and Diana go hunting for Armageddon, the leader of the saboteurs. While Hippolyta defeats Armageddon, Diana recovers Poseidon's Trident and disappears. By that time, however, Hippolyta has figured out that the woman she fought with wasn't the real Miss America. Either that night or the next night, Hippolyta makes a phone call to the real Miss America and confirms her suspicions. So the whole adventure really takes place over the course of one day.

After Diana returns to the present, she does tell Philippus that she saw her mother, but what she gasps is "Hera help me, Miss America!" This wasn't explained, but it's probably because Diana realized that all her mother had to do was contact Miss America to figure out the whole thing - which, of course, she did.

two miss america, supposingly one of them is wonder woman? :thinking:

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Unless this takes place in another time I doubt it's Diana cos she's currently busy in her own title. :thinking:

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from the pages of newsarama...

preview of issue 3, highlignt of the origin and introduction of black condor...
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early design of black condor's look
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final look
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UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS #7
Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray
Art and cover by Daniel Acuña

Homeland Invasion! President Knight unleashes his metahuman army to take care of the Freedom Fighters once and for all. Will our nation’s capital become the final resting ground for Uncle Sam?

On sale January 24 • 7 of 8 •
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UNCLE SAM AND THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS #8
Written by Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray
Art and cover by Daniel Acuña

The stunning miniseries conclusion! The Freedom Fighters make their last stand against President Knight with the fate of a nation hanging in the balance.

On sale February 28 • 8 of 8 •
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