Mine is to write The Freedom Fighters.
Since I first saw them in the pages of the Justice League, I have longed to write just even one story about that team.
First my team would look like the graph below:
| Uncle Sam (The Original) |
| The Ray (Lucien Gates) |
| Captain Triumph (the Female Version) |
| Plastic Man |
| Max Mercury |
| Magno (from Uncle Sam and FF) |
Unlike Roy Thomas, I would only use the original Quality Comics heroes.
Just for your info, I am providing the list below of heroes and different eras that are eligible for the make up of the team.
I am listing all the time periods in which Quality Heroes have appeared. Included the Justice League Lady Luck that Geoff Johns announced would be joining the Justice League.
| 711 (Quality Comics) |
| Black Condor |
| Blackhawk (DC Comics) |
| Blue Tracer |
| Bozo the Iron Man |
| Captain Triumph |
| Clock (comics) |
| Doll Girl |
| Firebrand (DC Comics) |
| Human Bomb |
| Invisible Hood |
| Jester (Quality Comics) |
| Kid Eternity |
| Lady Luck (comics) |
| Madame Fatal |
| Magno (Quality Comics) |
| Manhunter (comics) |
| Max Mercury |
| Merlin the Magician (comics) |
| Midnight (DC Comics) |
| Miss America (DC Comics) |
| Miss Fear (comics) |
| Mouthpiece (comics) |
| Neon the Unknown |
| Phantom Lady |
| Plastic Man |
| Ray (comics) |
| Red Bee (comics) |
| Red Torpedo (Jim Lockhart) |
| Spider (DC Comics) |
| Spider Widow |
| Uncle Sam (comics) |
| Wildfire (Carol Vance Martin) |
| Wonder Boy (comics) |
| Black Condor Richard Grey, Jr. (alias Tom Wright) | Black Condor (Richard Grey, Jr./Thomas Wright) |
| Doll Man (Darrell Dane) | |
| Human Bomb- Roy Lincoln | Firebrand (Rod Reilly) |
| Phantom Lady -Sandra Knight | Firebrand (Rod Reilly) |
| Ray -Langford "Happy" Terrill | Firebrand (Danette Reilly) |
| Uncle Sam | Human Bomb (Roy Lincoln) |
| Invisible Hood (Kent Thurston) | |
| Jester (Chuck Lane) | |
| Magno (Tom Dalton) | |
| Manhunter (Dan Richards) | |
| Miss America (Joan Dale-Trevor) | |
| Neon the Unknown (Tom Corbet) | |
| Phantom Lady (Sandra Knight) | |
| Plastic Man (Patrick "Eel" O'Brian) | |
| Ray (Lanford "Happy" Terrill) | |
| Red Bee (Rick Raleigh) | |
| Red Torpedo (Jim Lockhart) | |
| Uncle Sam |
| Damage | |
| Iron Munro | |
| Black Condor (Ryan Kendall) | |
| Phantom Lady (Dee Tyler) | |
| The Ray (Ray Terrill) | |
| The Human Bomb (Roy Lincoln) | Invisible Hood (Ken Thurston) |
| Doll Man (Dane Maxwell) | Red Torpedo (Jim Lockhart) |
| The Human Bomb (Michael Taylor) | |
| Phantom Lady (Jennifer Knight) | |
| The Ray (Lucien Gates) | |
| Uncle Sam (a black man) |
| Plastic Man | Lady Luck |
As you can see, DC has tried time and time again to put out a Freedom Fighters team that will have staying power. I don't think changing the Secret Identity of the heroes is always the way to get new readers.
The exceptions to that rule are John Truillo (Black Condor) and Lucein Gates (The Ray) because they add the diversity that the team sorely needed. Especially for a team that truly is an American Superhero team.
Well that is all I have to say about that.
Go Forth and Do Well
Shane
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