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and Masterpieces: Squadron Supreme by Mark Gruenwald (I)

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like dedicate these lines (on this post and the next) to put up a reading that you can still go unnoticed by many readers of comics, it is not too well known and displayed readings this month as interesting (and expensive) as Captain America Brubaker and Epting. That reading is neither more nor less than the volume of the Marvel line Gold collecting Panini has released six of the twelve numbers maxiserie he wrote in the eighties Mark Gruenwald (who write scripts for a very long period of Cap) on the Squadron Supreme.

Before discussing the contents of the volume, I would put on record, as the Squadron is a group well known to new readers.

The Squadron Supreme is a group of superheroes, the style of the Avengers, but, unlike these, is located in the Other-Earth of the Marvel Universe, a parallel earth where the Squadron is the only supergroup that exists, in which the heroes are integrated as they arise. His first appearance dates back to number 140 of the Avengers (though in 70 it appeared the Squadron Sinister, an evil copy of some of the members of the Squadron Supremo), which one can see that training is a very veteran. Who cares, you can find more information about the unique origin of the group publishing the article on the firm Raimon Fonseca own tome that collects maxiserie.

giving Squadron Sinister "FEEL" the vengeful

But yes I would make one last general reference for the group as long as it is a premise to understand why I liked it so much this first volume edited by Panini. The question is: Squadron Supreme was conceived as the "Marvel version" of the Justice League DC. This is shown if we look to its members. Thus, we trace the following correspondence:

Hyperion - Superman: Hyperion is the leader and the most powerful member, is alien and was raised by a pair of land.

Amphibian - Aquaman: The name itself indicates the characteristics of this unique member of the squad and he could speak with sea creatures, underwater breathing and is superstrong.

Dr. Spectrum - Green Lantern: Another similarity is more than obvious. While Green Lantern (in all its incarnations) has a ring capable of forming power structures that respond to his will, Dr. Spectrum is a "prism of power" that allows you to generate constructs similar to Green Lantern.

Buzzer - Flash: Both are sprinters on their respective groups.

Night Hawk - Batman: Both are rich men who do not have powers and base their contribution to their group in their agility, skill and cunning.

Golden Archer - Green Arrow: could not miss the figure of the archer in a group like the Squadron, traditional in similar formations in both the league and the Avengers (Eye Falcon).

Princess Power - Wonder Woman: While other characters in the similarities between the characters are merely referred their skills, in the case of Power and the Amazon Princess DC there is more common to have super strength, flight, invulnerability and have a unique object from his people (Zarda, its name, has an indestructible shield and partially transparent and Wonder Woman has her lasso), also share the fact of growing up in a more advanced society and away from humanity (Wonder Woman with the Amazons and Zarda in a society created by the Kree called "Utopia") and have been sent to the "world of men" as emissaries of their people.

addition there is also a obvious similarity between and Blue Eagle Hawkman between Alondra Lady and Black Canary between Arcana and Zatanna , leaving a little more vague the resemblance of Tomb Thumb, perhaps Oberon.

In any case, virtually until shortly before this maxiserie, the Squadron was merely a bad copy of heroes with much more charisma. However, when Steve Englehart to replace Roy Thomas (creator of the Squadron) in front of the head of the Avengers, he decided to give a clear differentiator in an arc content to define Squadron agrumental as more than a bad copy. What Englehart did was provide a basis for this group, creating a "continuity" itself from the Other-Earth, and above all, a character (although largely untapped) to each group member. In any case, it ceased to be secondary to a supergroup The Avengers, holding the head in what appeared Squadron.

Following the same line, Jean-Marc DeMatteis, in my opinion, one of the best writers of his time (the author of such masterpieces as The Last Hunt Kraven or the Justice League who signed with Giffen and Maguire ) introduced a storyline in the cole of Advocates in which the squad was dominated mentally by a powerful alien Overmind called to become the army of a U.S. super-chaired by Night Hawk (in his identity as Kyle Richmond had become President), who had also been manipulated by Overmind, with the intention of dominate the world (remember that in his world, the Squadron is the only group of heroes of the world and no lone heroes.) The intervention of Advocates was crucial, but told from the perspective of these, without elaborating on the consequences that this time, with the public, the blame for the situation they were members of the Squadron Supreme.

is in this interesting point that starts the maxiserie scripted by Mark Gruenwald. In a world destroyed by the Squadron, where famine and political instability, the greater supergurpo in the history of the Earth (Another-Earth, in our view) has the daunting task of considering how the world out of this situation.

However, the great virtues of this first volume of comment in the second post I'll dedicate the Squadron Supreme, a group that captivated me since childhood and whose name is impressive.

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