The Forces of Liberty

An Organization for Golden Age of Champions
by Brannon Boren

Members: (as of January 1943), The Phantom, Protector, Lightning, American Weapon, Victory Siren, Doctor Dimension, and Lady Liberty

Leader: The Phantom

Base of Operations: "Liberty Hall", Washington DC

Scope of Operations: Strike and rescue operations in the Pacific and European theaters. They often clashed with foreign supervillains.

Purpose of Organization: To defend and uphold the United States of America from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Financial Assets: Funded by the US government

Other Assets: Any US government facilities necessary to their mission

THE PHANTOM

Randolph Wilkins was a famous adventure movie actor of the late 30's who turned his swashbuckling alter ego into a real persona to fight crime. A forceful, almost overbearing man, he was the leader the FoL throughout it's existence.

Powers: The Phantom was a normal man who was in exceptional physical condition and was skilled in fisticuffs and fencing. He carried a sword and sometimes used theatrical gimmicks such as smoke pellets in his crimefighting.

DOCTOR DIMENSION

Dr. Lawrence Green was the brilliant physicist chosen to head The Pennsylvania Project, a secret experiment by the US Navy in radar invisibility. When he was put in charge of the project, a jealous rival arranged a lab accident for him. Locked in the test chamber with the experiment apparatus as his rival pulled down the activation switch, Dr. Green was sure that the tremendous electromagnetic energy pulse would kill him; he was wrong. Instead he gained powerful magnetic warping abilities and eventually dedicated himself to stopping evil, power-hungry men like his rival, and Adolph Hitler.

Powers: Dr. Dimension was able to teleport over short distances by creating an electromagnetic warp around himself. He could also fire "m-rays" from his eyes that could damage foes or form a column of magnetic force that would immobilize them.

LIGHTNING

The Lightning Speed Formula was prepared by Dr. Stephen Jennings in 1939, and incorporated a bottle of liquid that he purchased from a South African witch doctor. The shaman claimed the liquid was the blood of the Lightning Spirit. He'd wrestled with the spirit during a fierce storm and had wounded it; the blood that had spilled on the ground he gathered up in this flask.

Doctor Jennings didn't believe that, but he couldn't explain the strange liquid, it defied analyzation. He tried mixing it with various enzymes and adrenaline. Purely by chance he stumbled on a formula that seemed to increase reaction speed in his animal test subjects. That night a bolt of lightning struck his laboratory. All the vials on his shelf were shattered, except the one holding the formula. The glass container of blue liquid now seemed to pulse with electricity. Without knowing why, he felt a compulsion to drink the formula, and did. He could only choke down about a third of it before the power overwhelmed him. He separated the remaining formula into two doses, figuring each would be equivilent to the dosage he received. He intended to take the rest of the formula when this dose wore off, but the changes appeared to be permanent. He used his mysterious new power to fight the Axis with the Forces of Liberty during World War Two.

Powers: When he drank the blood of the Lightning Spirit, Stephen Jennings was imbued with mystic energy, and became the living receptacle of this Force of Nature. Other Elemental Champions occasionally were encountered by him, some friends and some enemies. Lightning was able to run at speeds approaching 300 miles per hour, had reaction times far times greater than normal human beings, and was able to easily evade bullets and other projectiles. He wore a red vest with a white lightning bolt on the left breast, black pants, boots, shirt, gloves and mask.

LADY LIBERTY

A normal girl until she drowned in a boating accident, Mary Morris was revived, but found that the experience had given her amazing mind powers. She rushed to join the FoL and fight the Axis. After the war she retired and married Lawrence Green.

Powers: Lady Liberty possessed powerful telepathic powers. She could read minds and was able to "short circuit" opponent's brains to knock them out for a time. She wore a red, white, and blue costume that protected her modesty well.

AMERICAN WEAPON

War Department code specialist Roberta "Bobbi" Marshal, was the first recipient of the mysterious Dr. Sorenson's Super Serum. Late in the war the serum apparently became unstable in her system and drove her mad. She was killed by Protector to prevent her from destroying America's first prototype A-bomb.

Powers: American Weapon recieved monthly injections that maintained her physical and mental capabilities at levels just beyond those of normal humans. The treatments were tailored to her, worked for no one else, and were extremely expensive. She could deadlift over 800 pounds and was observed to go beyond that capacity under duress. Her reflexes were superhuman, as was her constitution. She wore a jumpsuit with a stylized flag pattern on it and carried an Army officer's .45 caliber pistol in a holster at her hip.

VICTORY SIREN

Ginger Banks was on a ship that was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine in the north Atlantic in 1940. Most of the passengers and crew died, and the ones who didn't soon succumbed to the chill waters. Ginger was the last to go down. Suprisingly, she didn't die. She was rescues by the mystic Sirens and granted amazing powers of the voice, which she used to aid the allied war effort.

Powers: Victory Siren could fly and project bolts of sonic force with her voice. She was also able, with great effort, to temporarily hypnotize men with her voice. This last ability was ineffective on females. She wore a vaguely Greek style of golden armor (chestplate, shinguards, and bracers) which was able to deflect bullets

PROTECTOR

Shawn Crawford joined the FBI after graduating from Hudson City State in 1989. He loved his work as a field agent and was quite good at it, but during a rural manhunt one cold December night he mysteriously dissappeared. Shawn was engulfed by a mysterious fog and found himself transported fifty years into the past and granted amazing powers.

As a pre-war crimebuster, Protector worked with the FBI and a gang of teen volunteers called the Shield Brigade. When the US entered World War Two, he was called in by the War Department as a founding member of the Forces of Liberty. During this time, Shawn fell deeply in love with teammate Roberta "Bobbi" Marshal, aka American Weapon. When the super soldier serum became unstable and caused Bobbi to become insane, it was Protector who was forced to kill her, rather than allow her to destroy America's prototype A-Bomb. Heartbroken over what had happened, Protector decided to end it all at the rural cabin where he and Roberta had begun their romance. But before he could, the same mysterious fog that had transported him to the past reappeared and gathered him back to his native time. He has since left the Bureau and become a full time crimefighter in his hometown of Hudson City.

Powers: Protector is far stronger than a normal man and is impervious to small arms fire. The heaviest thing he was ever observed to lift was a German battle tank, which he overturned as it approached an Allied machine gun nest in 1943. Although some people (his surviving teammates and his old enemy, Herr Doktor Gerhardt Spregen for instance) have made the connection, it is not publically known that the current Protector is the same man who fought crime during the 1940's. Most people believe that he is simply a new hero who has taken the name. He wears a tan shirt and breeches, brown work boots, wide leather belt, and a dark-brown jacket usually with the sleeves rolled up. A brown domino-mask hides his identity.