Here is a bit of an overview of the Freedom Fighters. Seperately they were heroes for Quality comics in the Golden age of comics. DC comics bought the rights to all the Quality characters. Quality's most famous heros were Plastic Man and the Spirit. If they made Plas one of the Freedom Fighters the book may have lasted longer. Anyway, to the best of my knowledge, they weren't a team until the 70's when they were brought together in the Justice League of America. You see the JLA and the JSA and other heroes didn't live on the same earth at that time. To team up the planets had to be in the right alignment and they wouild use deminsion transporters to visit each other. It is sort of hard to explain but alot of fun to read. Anyway on one visit they all accidentally ended up on another earth. It was called earth X but it was where Germany won WWII. The Freedom FIghters were Nazi fighters. They teamed up with them and in 3 issues they won the war without dropping the bomb. A few years later they spun them off into their own book. There were no Nazi's to fight in their own world and I guess crime on there world was under control so they came to the JLA world to fight crime. During the course of the series they became wanted for a crime they didn't commit. They went on the run trying to stop criminals and prove their innocence. Over the years two of the characters got their own series. Black Condor, who is the one flying over them on the cover above, and the man in yellow, the Ray. I never cared too much for Black Condor so I was not surprised that his series was cancelled. The Ray was actually a 2nd generation hero as it was really the son of the Ray. He even became a member of the Justice League. The first Ray did get his own back up series in some other comic books. Not long ago Uncle Sam was given his own mini-series. I was surprised to find that the Ray and Black Condor were the 2 fan favorites at the time. For my money the best was the Human Bomb. He is the gentleman standing in front of the group in the white outfit. WIth him being up front I think DC thought he would be the favorite. When he ..."ahem"...bombed, I think that they were so surprised and upset that they said they would never use him again. I think that is a mistake. His power is that an explosive formula ran throughout his body and concentrated in his hands. Anything he laid his hands on exploded. However, only most of it was in his hands. It was through his whole body and he wore the protective suit so he wouldn't blow up anybody in case he accidentally touched them. Think of what like life would be like if you couldn't touch anything. You would have to sleep in you protective suit or at least in a chamber where you couldn't sense anything. The man would barely be able to hold on to his sanity. He may even come to welcome the moments when he could take his gloves off for those breif moments to blow up a locked door that the police can't get into. Anyway these are things I have had on my mind.
Here is a bit of an overview of the Freedom Fighters. Seperately they were heroes for Quality comics in the Golden age of comics. DC comics bought the rights to all the Quality characters. Quality's most famous heros were Plastic Man and the Spirit. If they made Plas one of the Freedom Fighters the book may have lasted longer. Anyway, to the best of my knowledge, they weren't a team until the 70's when they were brought together in the Justice League of America. You see the JLA and the JSA and other heroes didn't live on the same earth at that time. To team up the planets had to be in the right alignment and they wouild use deminsion transporters to visit each other. It is sort of hard to explain but alot of fun to read. Anyway on one visit they all accidentally ended up on another earth. It was called earth X but it was where Germany won WWII. The Freedom FIghters were Nazi fighters. They teamed up with them and in 3 issues they won the war without dropping the bomb. A few years later they spun them off into their own book. There were no Nazi's to fight in their own world and I guess crime on there world was under control so they came to the JLA world to fight crime. During the course of the series they became wanted for a crime they didn't commit. They went on the run trying to stop criminals and prove their innocence. Over the years two of the characters got their own series. Black Condor, who is the one flying over them on the cover above, and the man in yellow, the Ray. I never cared too much for Black Condor so I was not surprised that his series was cancelled. The Ray was actually a 2nd generation hero as it was really the son of the Ray. He even became a member of the Justice League. The first Ray did get his own back up series in some other comic books. Not long ago Uncle Sam was given his own mini-series. I was surprised to find that the Ray and Black Condor were the 2 fan favorites at the time. For my money the best was the Human Bomb. He is the gentleman standing in front of the group in the white outfit. WIth him being up front I think DC thought he would be the favorite. When he ..."ahem"...bombed, I think that they were so surprised and upset that they said they would never use him again. I think that is a mistake. His power is that an explosive formula ran throughout his body and concentrated in his hands. Anything he laid his hands on exploded. However, only most of it was in his hands. It was through his whole body and he wore the protective suit so he wouldn't blow up anybody in case he accidentally touched them. Think of what like life would be like if you couldn't touch anything. You would have to sleep in you protective suit or at least in a chamber where you couldn't sense anything. The man would barely be able to hold on to his sanity. He may even come to welcome the moments when he could take his gloves off for those breif moments to blow up a locked door that the police can't get into. Anyway these are things I have had on my mind. 
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