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36-532: The original Shining Knight (Sir Justin) debuted during the Golden Age and Modern Age of Comic Books and is a founding member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory . During DC's "Silver Age" crossover event (not to be confused with the actual Silver Age of Comic Books ), Dick Giordano and Geoff Johns created a new Seven Soldiers of Victory to fight an Injustice League that had possessed the bodies of

72-509: A businessman. Samachson died of complications from Parkinson's disease on June 2, 1980, in Chicago, Illinois . He had a son, Michael Samachson, and a daughter, the photographer Miriam Berkley . A graduate of Rutgers University , he earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale at the age of 23. He was an assistant professor at the College of Medicine, University of Illinois. He also headed

108-710: A laboratory in metabolic research at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois , a research unit dealing with diseases that affect the skeleton. Comics historian Jerry Bails wrote that Samachson worked as a research chemist for the American Molasses Company until 1938, leaving to become a "freelance technical writer". As a writer, Samachson translated several scientific papers. He also wrote science fiction and comics. He wrote many science fiction works (under

144-669: A new Shining Knight . This group's Shining Knight is Gardner Grayle from the Silver Age feature The Atomic Knights ; in previously published stories that occurred after the Silver Age limited series, he becomes the Atomic Knight and joins the Outsiders . This is the only appearance of this particular assemblage. Seven Soldiers is a comic book metaseries written by Grant Morrison and published by DC Comics . It

180-647: A quest to discover the identity of the Unknown Soldier of Victory, whose tomb lay in the mountains of Tibet where the Seven Soldiers had fallen after defeating the Nebula Man. The Seven Soldiers are reunited, but Earth-1 and Diana Prince had been attacked by the Iron Hand. She is able to overcome him, but he is no longer able to stop the giant hand. The heroes create a new Nebula Rod to deal with

216-686: A version of the Seven Soldiers of Victory that will serve as a public 'face' and PR cover for the covert actions of the Wildcats team. This team consists of Threshold (formerly of Dv8 ), Majestic, Andromache, Maul, Mother One, Agent Wax, and Pike. Notable enemies in order of appearance include: The Seven Soldiers of Victory appear in Stargirl , consisting of the Star-Spangled Kid , Stripesy , Green Arrow , Speedy , Vigilante , Shining Knight , Crimson Avenger , and Wing. This version of

252-605: Is the new Sir Justin in Grant Morrison's project. Another group takes the name of the Seven Soldiers of Victory in the Showcase issue of the miniseries known as Silver Age . This group, brought together to help the Justice League of America and the other major heroes and teams of the 1960s to battle the menace of Agamemno , consists of Adam Strange , Batgirl , Blackhawk , Deadman , Mento , Metamorpho and

288-1074: The Atom , and the Elongated Man find the Crimson Avenger in Mexico, where he believes he is the Aztec sun god. Superman , the Sandman , and Metamorpho rescue the amnesic Shining Knight from the hordes of Genghis Khan . Hawkman , Doctor Mid-Nite , and the Golden Age Wonder Woman find the Golden Age Green Arrow in medieval England, where he had been mistaken for Robin Hood . Batman , Hourman , and Starman retrieve Stripesy from ancient Egypt. The Silver Age Green Arrow , Black Canary , and Johnny Thunder and

324-647: The Crimson Avenger (from Detective Comics ); the Green Arrow and Speedy (from More Fun Comics ); the Shining Knight (from Adventure Comics ); and the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy (from Star-Spangled Comics ). Unlike most superhero teams, this one includes two sidekicks, Speedy and Stripesy, as members (Stripesy is a rarity, an adult sidekick to a "kid" lead character). The Crimson Avenger's sidekick Wing also takes part in

360-539: The Justice League of America . Gardner Grayle , who would later become the Atomic Knight , took an experimental suit of armor and called himself Shining Knight for this one mission. This version of the Seven Soldiers with Batgirl , Deadman , Metamorpho , Blackhawk , Adam Strange and Mento only served in one mission and the Shining Knight armor was destroyed. Ystina is a reimagined character of

396-521: The Martian Manhunter in the pages of Detective Comics #225. Usually credited as author on the initial strip, some commentators believe that he may have produced the plot, but that writer Jack Miller (who most believe succeeded Samachson in writing the character with the next issue), may have produced the first script. Don Markstein's Toonopedia also suggests that Samachson wrote "many subsequent" appearances of J'Onn J'Onzz rather than just

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432-754: The Thunderbolt of Johnny Thunder , reveals to the JLA and the JSA that the Seven Soldiers had fought and destroyed a similar menace called the Nebula Man many years previously, though at the seeming cost of their existences. The Oracle then explains that the Soldiers had instead been scattered throughout history. The two teams split into smaller groups and are sent back in time by the Oracle to find them. Doctor Fate,

468-872: The Thunderbolt save the Vigilante from a tribe of Indians in the Old West. Aquaman , Wildcat and the Silver Age Green Lantern rescue the Star-Spangled Kid from 50,000 years in the past. Zatanna , the Silver Age Flash and the Red Tornado free Speedy from ancient Greece where he had been transformed into a centaur by Circe . The Golden Age Green Lantern , Mister Terrific and the Golden Age Robin go on

504-718: The Titans Tomorrow future. The Shining Knight and Victory made a brief appearance in Elseworlds' JLA: Another Nail when all time periods meld together. Seven Soldiers of Victory The Seven Soldiers of Victory (also known as Law's Legionnaires ) is a team of fictional comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe . They first appeared in Leading Comics #1 (Winter 1941), and were created by Mort Weisinger and Mort Meskin . The team

540-634: The 1940s, in which the elflike Willie Wisher banishes the Soldiers to "the Land of Magic", where they encounter various supernatural characters, was later serialized in 1975 in Adventure Comics #438–443, with each chapter illustrated by a different artist (including Dick Dillin , Howard Chaykin , Lee Elias , Mike Grell , Ernie Chan , and José Luis García-López ). The team is resurrected in Justice League of America #100–102. During

576-703: The Crimson Avenger wants him to do something more important with his life. The remaining spot on the team is filled by the Spider , an archer who had originally appeared in Quality Comics' Crack Comics . This Spider is really a villain and has been working with the team's archenemy the Hand, creator of the original Nebula Man. The Spider sabotages the Nebula Rod, and sends the team to fight a fruitless battle. The villain tries to kill Wing, but he escapes and reaches

612-471: The Golden Age Green Arrow and Speedy, who had been removed from active continuity. Stuff had never appeared with the team during the original Leading Comics run, while an older man named Billy Gunn helped out the Vigilante on his cases in the comic. This retcon is changed in the late nineties, in Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #9. While Stuff remains a full member, Wing is not an official Soldier because his mentor

648-621: The Vigilante, the Shining Knight, the Green Arrow, Speedy and the Star-Spangled Kid gather at the grave of Lee Travis, the man known as the Crimson Avenger. He had died two years earlier saving Gotham City from a boatload of explosives in DC Comics Presents #38. In the original Post- Crisis retcon of the team, both Wing and the Vigilante's sidekick Stuff the Chinatown Kid are promoted to full membership, to replace

684-541: The celebration of their 100th meeting, the JLA is brought to Earth-Two by the Justice Society of America, where a giant ethereal hand controlled by the Iron Hand (who turned up alive) threatens to destroy their world unless he is given control over it. Having been unable to destroy the hand themselves, the only clue the JSA could find was a mystical vision of a grave for "the Unknown Soldier of Victory". An unearthly Oracle , summoned up by Doctor Fate , Zatanna , and

720-698: The first. Jerry Bails also lists Samachson as having co-created the historical DC character Tomahawk . In 1943 Samachson also created the character Two-Gun Percy , which first appeared under the DC Comics imprint All Funny Comics and was drawn by Bernard Baily. In 1975, DC Comics adapted an unused story he wrote in the 1940s featuring the Seven Soldiers of Victory into a six-part serial in Adventure Comics #438-443. Samachson also wrote scripts for Captain Video and His Video Rangers . With his wife Dorothy Samachson , he wrote about theater ("Let's Meet

756-415: The five criminals' enemies (the Crimson Avenger, the Vigilante, the Star-Spangled Kid and Stripesy, the Green Arrow and Speedy and the Shining Knight, respectively) to stop the criminals, presuming they will fail. However, the heroes defeat the Hand's Five Fingers. The heroes converge on the Hand's base after he reveals his whereabouts; the villain had found out a cure for his condition and decides to eliminate

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792-596: The giant hand, but whoever uses the Nebula Rod is certain to perish (as did the Crimson Avenger's partner Wing, revealed to be the Unknown Soldier of Victory, when the Nebula Man was stopped). While the heroes argue over who will make the sacrifice, the android Red Tornado takes the Nebula Rod and destroys the Hand, destroying himself in the process. The only other modern meeting of the team (either in Pre- or Post- Crisis continuity) takes place in Infinity, Inc. #11, in which

828-662: The group operated years before the Justice Society of America . The original appearances have been collected as part of the DC Archive Editions : Joseph Samachson Joseph Samachson (October 13, 1906 – June 2, 1980) was an American scientist and writer, primarily of science fiction and comic books. Joseph Samachson was born on October 13, 1906, in Trenton, New Jersey , the son of Russian Jewish parents, Anna (Roshansky) and David Louis Samachson,

864-504: The heroes so he can remain free, but the heroes evade his traps. When the villain tries to use a lightning ray machine against them, the Vigilante shoots a crucial component of the device, bringing machinery down upon the Hand and apparently killing him. Deciding they work well together, the heroes form the Seven Soldiers of Victory. The Seven Soldiers of Victory appear in the first 14 issues of Leading Comics (which changed to an all-humor format in #15). A script by Joseph Samachson from

900-426: The mantle of the Star-Spangled Kid in memory of Sylvester Pemberton. She is now a double legacy, as she also carries on the legacy of Starman . The second legacy is the new Crimson Avenger , who has appeared sporadically in the series JSA . She has yet to make an appearance One Year Later , though she is seen towards the end of Infinite Crisis . The third one is Gardner Grayle, the Atomic Knight . The last one

936-585: The original created by Grant Morrison for the Seven Soldiers comic book. In the 1996 miniseries Kingdom Come , there is a background character named Shining Knight II . This version is more futuristic than his predecessors and comes with a giant, metal dragon named Dragonknight . An older version of Ystina has appeared in Teen Titans (vol. 3) #52 as a member of the Titans Army from

972-438: The other Soldiers. They repair the Nebula Rod and use it to destroy the Nebula Man. Wing dies and his teammates are again tossed through time and later retrieved by the JLA and JSA. The only major difference between this story and the 1972 story is that this time the Vigilante is found after he had spent nearly 20 years fighting crime in the Old West. In 2010's DC Universe: Legacies #2, TNT and Dyna-Mite are retconned into

1008-419: The pages of " The New Golden Age ", the Seven Soldiers of Victory get back together upon being summoned by Jill Carlyle. While Jill takes the adults on a mission, Stargirl and Red Arrow find out that they are going after Clock King . They find the Seven Soldiers of Victory fighting Clock King on a ship where the original Crimson Avenger had died. Before Stargirl destroys Per Degaton 's time machine that sends

1044-587: The pseudonym William Morrison), including two novels published in Startling Stories , the 1937 pulp title Murder of a Professor and short stories for several magazines, including Money from Heaven (1942). He also penned a couple of Captain Future pulp novels c.1941–1942 (under the house name "Brett Sterling"), and had work appear in the science fiction magazine Galaxy . Gnome Press published Mel Oliver and Space Rover on Mars in1954. and

1080-608: The ship back to its own time, Crimson Avenger tells her to find Wing. Once time is fixed, history was changed so that Lee Travis' body was found. A funeral was held by the Justice League and the Justice Society of America. The next day, Courtney joins Pat and the Seven Soldiers of Victory for breakfast. The re-integration of the Wildstorm characters into the DCU saw a relaunch of the Wildcats title. In issue #2-3, Jacob Marlowe unveils

1116-401: The team's adventures, and is in every other way an "eighth Soldier", but is never considered an "official" member. All but one of its members (the Shining Knight, a time-displaced Arthurian knight who rides a winged horse and uses an enchanted sword and suit of armor) are non-powered humans who rely on conventional weapons or training in place of superhuman abilities. Per Leading Comics #1,

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1152-640: The team's origin comes about when the criminal mastermind called the Hand (later the Iron Hand), believing himself terminally ill, gives his greatest unused schemes to five other supercriminals who he saved from the police (Big Caesar, the Dummy, the Needle, Professor Merlin, and the Red Dragon) to commit crimes across the U.S. as "the Hand's Five Fingers" and prove his genius to the world. The Hand also challenges

1188-600: The team's original line-up. It has not yet been revealed precisely how this retcon affects the respective histories of the Spider, TNT or Dyna-Mite. The Seven Soldiers have not reformed in the Modern Age (partly due to Grant Morrison's project). Three of the originals-the Shining Knight , the Vigilante and Stripesy (now STRIPE)-remain. The team has inspired a few legacies. The first is Stargirl , who at first carries

1224-561: Was a short-lived assembly of some of the less famous superheroes in the DC Universe who have made occasional appearances since their Golden Age debut. The Seven Soldiers of Victory (also known as the Law's Legionnaires) is DC Comics ' second super-hero team, following the Justice Society of America . Like the Justice Society, the membership of the Seven Soldiers is drawn from DC's anthology comics: The Vigilante (from Action Comics );

1260-412: Was also published in a Dutch translation. He is believed to have begun working for DC Comics in late 1942, working on comics scripts for characters notably including Batman . He also wrote scripts for comics and characters including Sandman , Green Arrow , Airwave and Robotman , as well as "a string of 17 science-fiction stories in 1955 and 1956". In 1955, he created (with artist Joe Certa )

1296-702: Was published as seven interrelated mini-series and two bookend issues. The series features a new version of the Seven Soldiers of Victory fighting to save Earth from the Sheeda . The series was bookended by Seven Soldiers #0 and #1, with art by J. H. Williams III . The rest was made up of seven mini-series: Shining Knight with art by Simone Bianchi , Manhattan Guardian with art by Cameron Stewart , Zatanna with art by Ryan Sook , Klarion with art by Frazer Irving , Mister Miracle with art by Pascal Ferry , Bulleteer with art by Yanick Paquette , and Frankenstein with art by Doug Mahnke . In

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