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[[File:Superpowers-Ross-Painting.jpg|frame|Project Superpowers, by Alex Ross]]
[[Public Domain Character|Public Domain Characters]] galore! A couple dozen [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] super heroes are thrown together in one continuity as planned by [[Alex Ross]], renowned fan of [[The Golden Age of Comic Books]] and
The story goes that, back in [[World War II]], the American Government got Fighting Yank, a [[Superhero]] with [[Charles Atlas Superpower]], the ghost of his Great-Grandfather who gives him advice and a magic cloak, to retrieve Pandora's Urn from Nazi clutches. The mythology of Pandora's Urn goes that when she opened it, all the horror and evil in the world was released from it, but also "hope".
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Over sixty years later, racked by guilt, Yank is visited by the American Spirit, a spectral flag, apparently made of the blood of patriots, who tells Yank that the world is worse off without the heroes that the Yank had captured in the Urn and that Yank only had a short time to live. Against his Great-Grandfather's wishes, Fighting Yank decides to don his magic cloak once again and follow the America Spirit.
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* [[A God Am I]]: Captain Future.
* [[Badass Bookworm]] - The Black Terror, Hugo "Doc" Strange, The Target, American Crusader and a handful of others had professional vocations with various scientific qualifications before they got their powers and decided to drop everything to fight [[Those Wacky Nazis]]. They're largely Pharmacists and Metallurgists rather than [[Half Life|Physicists]], though.
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* [[I Love Nuclear Power]] - American Crusader was the first superhero who got his powers through this. Several other public domain characters eventually followed suit.
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] - The original Blue Beetle appears as "Big Blue" to avoid trademark conflicts with DC Comics. Ditto several other characters those codenames are currently trademarked by Marvel or DC. They could have used the original names, but then, they couldn't have sold a Blue Beetle comic, Blue Beetle action figures, etc without getting sued by the current trademark holders.
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* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] - F-Troop ([[F Troop|not that one]]) are zombie [[Super Soldiers]]! Yank's grandfather is a racist ghost!
** [[Word of God]] says that Black Terror is "pirate Superman". Hell yes.
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