The 72
As DC Comics moves the "modern age" forward, the gap widens between
the World War II era "golden age" JSA and the "silver age" JLA. The
"Satellite era" JLA has been moved forward to the point that they
don't appear to have even been active in the 1970's, creating a "lost
era".
What happened in these missing years? Who protected the streets of
Gotham, who kept Metropolis clean, and who protected the Earth from
alien invasion? And who were the forces that threatened it? Who
carried the Golden Age legacies during a time when the actions of
heroes, and villains, went unnoticed amid a time strifed by the
Vietnam War, and the dawn of the drug age, when computers were little
more than oversized calculators? This is a time when nobody was
paying attention to super-heroics. When glam ruled to the point that
a super-hero could wander the streets in brightly-colored spandex
unnoticed. This was the 1970's, when heroes like Black Lightning,
Bronze Tiger, The Creeper, and a blue alien calling himself Starman
were at the top of a game that had reached rock bottom. Welcome to '72.
The Creeper
Jack Ryder, a television news reporter who was demoted due to his
outspoken nature. Relegated to network security, he protected a
scientist who gave him two devices. One enabled him to instantly heal
from any wound and gave enhanced strength and agility, but at the
cost of somewhat unbalanced personality. The other enabled him to
instantly change into the costume of a green-haired, yellow-skinned,
and red-furred wildman; the costume, "imprinted" on the device and
thus capable of being summoned and dispelled at will.
Granny Goodness
Granny runs the "orphanage," where she uses brainwashing and
torture, in a brutal parody of child care, to turn the innocent into
fanatical warriors willing to kill or die for Darkseid's glory on
Apokolips and is the chief of the Female Furies.
Black Lightning
A gold medal-winning Olympic decathlete, Jefferson Pierce returned to his old neighborhood (the notorious Suicide Slum in the proud city of Metropolis) to become a high school teacher. Appalled by the violence he saw, Pierce tried to intervene on behalf of his students, but quickly learned that the 100, the local criminal organization,
objected violently to interference. Jeff doned the costume of Black
Lightning to combat them gaining his electric power from a device
built by a freind.
Angle Man
Angelo Bend was an unsuccessful criminal who became obsessed with
crimes with unbeatable "angles." Member of Secret Society of Super-
Villains and wielding the Angler, a Penrose triangle which could warp
time and space in a variety of ways. Angelo had been recruited and
outfitted by the SSOSV's founder Darkseid.
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