All-Star Squadron #127, homage to Star Wars issue #8
Artist: Dann Phillips (All)
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DescriptionLatest "Continuation Project" commission - All-Star Squadron #127, art by Dann Phillips, based as always on the cover of a comic written, plotted or scripted by Roy Thomas, in this case Star Wars #8, original art by Gil Kane and Tony DeZuniga.Another great commission from Dann, squeezing all eight members of the Seven Soldiers in - with a bit of creative licence used on some of the figures from the original cover. Title: "The Treasure That Time Forgot!" Story: Just as Roy Thomas retold the adventures of the Seven Soldiers Of Victory from Leading Comics #3-5 (in All-Star Squadron #29 and #56, plus Young All-Stars #27 - although the latter really just features a summary of the end of the story), I wanted to pick up the next SSOV adventures, from Leading #6 --- but with a few amendments and updates. When the Seven Soldiers Of Victory are offered a huge sum of money to track down missing treasure in Central America, they leap at the chance, not least because they can check into rumours of Axis sabotage whilst there. Provided with information by Mr Scrivener, secretary to archaeology Professor Milton, the heroes' initial friendly rivalry turns serious when they are separately attacked by what appears to be other members of the team! After several adventures - and unmasking their attackers are impostors - the SSOV converge on a lost Inca city, only to find that the promised hoard of gold is not there - but that Mr Scrivener, revealed as a Nazi sympathiser and saboteur, is! Ultimately the heroes defeat Scrivener and his plot, and realise that the real treasure is the cultural artifacts concealed in the city, which will keep Milton - and his archaeologist colleague Carter Hall - busy for many years. (The original tale, which to be fair isn't one of the best of the SSOV stories, doesn't have any Axis connections, Scrivener is simply a crook, and the gold hoard they find is immediately appropriated to pay for American armaments, something which seems less than likely (or heroic) in a modern - or even a 1980s - light, hence my changing things a bit.) In a back-up story, Sargon journeys to the adjacent dimension where Wotan has been trapped since his defeat at the end of the All-Star War in issue #75, only to find that his mystic prison is empty! The villain has escaped - and who knows where, when or how he might attack the All-Star Squadron again? (Obviously I do - and so will you, before this year is out, if all goes to plan.) Social/Sharing |
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Jeffrey Wedding 
Member Since 2009
1 - Posted on 5/20/2021
What an inspired and fantastic gallery and project you have going, kudos!
John Joshua
Member Since 2015
1 - Posted on 5/20/2021
Jeffrey Wedding wrote:
What an inspired and fantastic gallery and project you have going, kudos!
Thanks - glad you like them!
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